How tall could we really build? After a century of competition, skyscrapers are reaching new extremes: Saudi Arabia’s upcoming 1-kilometer-tall Kingdom Tower in Jeddah will triple the Empire State Building’s height. In this episode of "The Limit," we climbed inside the hidden parts of the world’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? 00:00 – Tallest Until 1971 01:10 – The Buttressed Core 05:26 – Confuse the Wind 12:50 – Vanity Height 20:59 – Construction 25:27 – Elevators 28:51 – The Limit 30:14 – Credits The opening sequence was shot at Edge Sky Deck. Radio tower demolition footage provided courtesy of Controlled Demolition, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------ #skyscrapers #tallestbuilding #burjkhalifa #oneworldtradecenter #jeddahtower #thelimit #engineering #architecture MORE EPISODES FROM THE LIMIT : Why Humans Living In Spa...