Why A Mile-High Skyscraper Is Almost Impossible | The Limit

How tall could we really build? After a century of competition, skyscrapers are reaching new extremes: Saudi Arabia’s upcoming 1-kilometer-tall Kingdom Tower in Jeddah will triple the Empire State Building’s height.

In this episode of “The Limit,” we climbed inside the hidden parts of the world’s tallest towers and talked to the people who built them to ask: What would it take to build a mile-high tower? Who would pay for it? And why do we keep reaching higher?

00:00 – Tallest Until 1971
01:10 – The Buttressed Core
05:26 – Confuse the Wind
12:50 – Vanity Height
20:59 – Construction
25:27 – Elevators
28:51 – The Limit
30:14 – Credits

The opening sequence was shot at Edge Sky Deck. Radio tower demolition footage provided courtesy of Controlled Demolition, Inc.

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