Menara Kerajaan Arab Saudi. dailymail.co.uk
Keluarga Kerajaan Arab Saudi hari ini mengungkapkan rencana mereka membangun gedung tertinggi di dunia.
Gedung dengan nama "Menara kerajaan" itu akan memiliki tinggi 1,6 kilometer. Ini akan menggusur rekor sebelumnya yang dipegang Burj Khalifah di Dubai, Uni Emirat Arab, yang mempunyai ketinggian 828 meter. Menara Kerajaan ini bakal dilengkapi sejumlah hotel, perkantoran, apartemen mewah, dan sebuah pusat belanja.
Saking tingginya, untuk mencapai puncak gedung dengan menggunakan lift butuh waktu sekitar 12 menit. Proyek bergengsi dan ambisius itu menelan anggaran 12 miliar pound sterling atau sekitar Rp 169,08 triliun.
Menurut arsitek spesialis gedung-gedung tertinggi, Emaar, Menara Kerajaan itu akan dibangun di luar kota pelabuhan Jeddah. Ini bakal menjadi maskot bagi kota berpenduduk sekitar 80 ribu jiwa itu.
Namun menurut Wakil Pemimpin Redkasi the Architects' Journal Rory Olcayto, perlombaan menciptakan gedung pencakar langit merupakan perbuatan sia-sia. "Gedung-gedung ini kehilangan arti dan hanya merupakan simbol cara berpikir usang," katanya.
Daftar 10 bangunan tertinggi di dunia:
Burj Khalifah
Tinggi : 828 meter (163 lantai)
Dibuka : 2010
Lokasi : Dubai, Uni Emirat Arab
Taipei 101
Tinggi : 508 meter (101 lantai)
Dibuka : 2004
Lokasi : Taipei, Taiwan
Shanghai World Finance Center
Tinggi : 492 meter (101 lantai)
Dibuka : 2008
Lokasi : Shanghai, RRC
International Commerce Centre
Tinggi : 484 meter (108 lantai)
Dibuka : 2010
Lokasi : Kowloon, Hong Kong
Petronas Tower 1
Tinggi : 452 meter (88 lantai)
Dibuka : 1998
Lokasi : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Petronas Tower 2
Tinggi : 452 meter (88 lantai)
Dibuka : 1998
Lokasi : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Nanjing Greenland Financial Center
Tinggi : 450 meter (89 lantai)
Dibuka : 2010
Lokasi : Nanjing, Cina
Willis Tower
Tinggi : 442 meter (110 lantai)
Dibuka : 1974
Lokasi : Chicago, Amerika Serikat
Kingkey Finance Tower
Tinggi : 442 meter (98 lantai)
Dibuka : 2011
Lokasi : Shenzhen, Cina
Guangzhou West Tower
Tinggi : 438 meter (103 lantai)
Dibuka : 2010
Lokasi : Guangzhou, Cina
Sumber: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
http://www.tempointeraktif.com/hg/timteng/2011/04/12/brk,20110412-326767,id.html
Mile-high business hub: Saudi Royal family plans £12billion building so tall it will take 12 MINUTES to reach top by lift
The Saudi Royal family today unveiled plans to construct the world's tallest building - which will be an incredible one MILE high.
Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia will be 1.6km tall (one mile) when it is completed and consist of hotels, offices, luxury apartments and a shopping centre.
The structure will be twice the height of the world's current tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, and FIVE times as tall as Britain's highest building, The Shard.
The one-mile-high Kingdom Tower will eclipse the rest of the skyline. The record-breaking building will consist of hotels, offices, luxury apartments and a shopping centre
It will take a staggering 12 minutes to reach the top of the £12 billion building in the elevator.
The megastructure will boast a staggering 12 million cubic square feet of interior space - 12 times more than Number One Canada Water in London's Canary Wharf.
It is being financed by the Saudi Royal Family-owned Kingdom Holding Company - which is the nation's largest company.
KHC, which has shareholdings in Apple, McDonald's and Amazon, has employed American company Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture who designed the Burj Khalifa.
Vast: A model of the tower which will cost £12billion. Visitors can reach the top by elevator
Skyscraper specialists Emaar, which built the Burj, are understood to have won the contract to construct the Kingdom Tower, which will be built outside the Red Sea port city of Jeddah as the centre piece of a new 80,000 population city.
But the announcement has been criticised with one design expert describing the idea of another 'phallic tower' as 'futile'.
Rory Olcayto, deputy editor of The Architects' Journal, said: 'The race to build the highest skyscraper is quite futile - where do you stop?
'There's always a lot of British know how driving these projects which shows how important UK architects are on the world stage.
'But these buildings are missing the point and are a symbol of an old fashioned way of thinking.
'It's much better to look at something like the 3D China Central Television Headquarters in Beijing rather than a thrusting phallic tower.'
The structure will be twice the height of the world's current tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, and FIVE times as tall as Britain's highest building, The Shard
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