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World's tallest building is high tech

You'll have to walk a kilometer down to the ground floor. In the dark.

"the world???s highest observatory"
Really? Maybe the highest OBSERVATION DECK (not OBSERVATORY)?
Does anyone proofread this stuff?

but for whom? "Certianly" ? "world????s" ? Seriously, you can't make spelling errors while criticizing someone else's writing- it just makes you look bad.

We are definitely buying way too much oil from the Middle East!

I doubt very much the numbers justify the design of this building. To grossly over simplify, land has to be so costly that it's more economical to build 157 floors up than to have a building twice the footprint & 79 floors tall, 3X & 53 floors, etc. Kingdom City is going up near the Red Sea, not on an island in it. At some point, people & companies decide they don't need to be in the tallest building in the world when they can save a lot on rent & be in another building just as nice nearby.

The Hour will not be established-till the people compete with one another in constructing high buildings.(Bukhari)
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Among the signs of the Hour mentioned in the hadith Sahih al-Bukhari is: ???When the destitute (al-buhm) camelherders compete in building tall structures.??? -
In the hadith Sahih Muslim: ???You shall see the barefoot, naked, indigent (al-`??la) shepherds compete in building tall structures.???

Our hard-earned dollars go to build the tallest towers in the world and to fight wars that keep the money flowing in.