It's Official: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Design Latest World's Tallest Building, Kingdom Tower
Almost immediately after the buzz had finally settled down about the opening of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the “world’s tallest building,” talk started up about the next “world’s tallest building,” the Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia. Though there was apparently a competition to design the new super-skyscraper, it’s long been assumed that it would be designed by Adrian Smith, who had created the Burj (and who complained a bit that the firm he worked for while that record-setting building, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was
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