CNN is reporting on the resumed construction of Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower, the Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS + GG) project that will become the world’s tallest structure once completed in 2028. Progress had been stalled at roughly one-third the height of the 3,280-foot building in January of 2018 due to labor shortages. The buttressed core utilized to achieve its final height could key a new wave of megatall designs as was outlined in the firm's 2022 title Supertall | Megatall: How High Can We Go? Some others to keep an eye on have been rumored for Thailand and Riyadh within the past year.
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As a retired architect of 80, I make a few humble observations as follows: The world is overpopulated, we are running out of resources, there is little water left for comfortable human or animal-plant survival, the animal kingdom is disappearing, the plant world is in disarray as per the Amazon, the world's weather is wreaking one catastrophe after another on the man-world, yet we are talking about who will have the tallest tower in the world? What the hell are we doing? Do we have no common-sense regarding Mother Earth and survival of our planet as our one and only home? Please! Give me a break!!!!
The planet will survive. We and some of the life might not but there will still be life and humans may go extinct yet life on this planet continues on for awhile, at least. I suspect there will eventually be a point that life on this planet dies but we won't be the last survivor species living on this planet due to obvious biology based reasons.
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