Kilometer-high building for Kuwait

We wrote about the construction boom in Dubai - here. Within two years, the Burj Dubai Tower - an 800-meter high skyscraper by Chicago specialists SOM - should rise here. Meanwhile, the magazine New Scientist reported on a lesser-known London office Eric Kuhne and Associates, which plans to build a skyscraper in Kuwait that is 1001 meters tall, doubling the height of the current tallest building in the world. The Madinat al-Hareer project was commented on in the article by Mohsen Zikri, a skyscraper expert from the prestigious construction firm Ove Arup. The construction will take 25 years and will cost 84 billion pounds. Money is not a problem in the Persian Gulf, so let's be surprised. Info>