How tall could we really build? After a century of competition, skyscrapers are reaching new extremes: Saudi Arabia\u2019s upcoming 1-kilometer-tall Kingdom Tower in Jeddah will triple the Empire State Building\u2019s height.<\/p>\n
In this episode of “The Limit,” we climbed inside the hidden parts of the world\u2019s 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?<\/p>\n
00:00 \u2013 Tallest Until 1971
\n01:10 \u2013 The Buttressed Core
\n05:26 \u2013 Confuse the Wind
\n12:50 \u2013 Vanity Height
\n20:59 \u2013 Construction
\n25:27 \u2013 Elevators
\n28:51 \u2013 The Limit
\n30:14 \u2013 Credits<\/p>\n
The opening sequence was shot at Edge Sky Deck. Radio tower demolition footage provided courtesy of Controlled Demolition, Inc.<\/p>\n
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