The Kingdom Tower will stand 3,280-feet tall. The Burj Khalifa, by comparison, stands at 2,716 feet. New York City’s Freedom Tower, currently the fifth tallest in the world, is dwarf-like at ...

Dubai's iconic Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, could be stripped of its Guinness title if Saudi Arabia succeeds in its plans to construct the even larger Jeddah Tower -- a prospect ...

The tower owes its shape to American architect Adrian Smith of the Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Smith also designed Shanghai's 1,378-foot Jin Mao tower, the world's fourth tallest.

Sales are now underway on Sheepshead Bay’s tallest building, 1 Brooklyn Bay, with one-bedroom apartments starting at $525,000.