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Mile-High Me Too?

By Zach Mortice
Associate Editor

Last month, a handful of Middle Eastern business journals and architecture publications picked up on British engineering and design firm Hyder Consulting's announcement of what we're supposed to assume will be the world's next tallest buildings. Here's what we know:

--It will be located in the Middle East.
--It will be twice as tall as the 160-plus-story Burj Dubai, perhaps reaching a mile in height.

That's about it. Such vagueness prompted BLDG Blog to wonder if the announcement was all a media stunt. A lot of these short news items filled out their last few filler paragraphs with brief and breathless descriptions of other Middle Eastern space-scrapers. Is this anything more than architectural me-tooism? How much longer can people keep building "the tallest building in the world" before that phrases ceases to have any meaning?       

 

 

Posted by Zach Mortice on March 10, 2008 8:17 AM |

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