{"id":39371,"date":"2025-11-24T16:51:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/why-building-a-mile-high-skyscraper-is-almost-impossible\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:51:40","slug":"why-building-a-mile-high-skyscraper-is-almost-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/why-building-a-mile-high-skyscraper-is-almost-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Why building a mile-high skyscraper is almost impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How tall could we really build? After a century of competition, skyscrapers are reaching new extremes: Saudi Arabia&#039;s upcoming 1-kilometer-tall Kingdom Tower in Jeddah is set to triple the Empire State Building&#039;s height. In this episode of &quot;The Limit,&quot; we climbed inside the hidden parts of the world&#039;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?<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How tall could we really build? After a century of competition, skyscrapers are reaching new extremes: Saudi Arabia&#039;s upcoming 1-kilometer-tall Kingdom Tower in Jeddah is set to triple the Empire State Building&#039;s height. In this episode of &quot;The Limit,&quot; we climbed inside the hidden parts of the world&#039;s tallest towers and talked to the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}