Shocking! Here’s World’s Tallest Building With 1,900 Floors, Housing 30m People

With approximately 1,969 floors, the world’s tallest skyscraper, planned to be erected by the Yamanote Line, would have had a conical shape, with a broad base spanning 110km that tapered as it ascended towards the sky.

Despite never being constructed, the Tokyo Tower of Babel has remained a subject of study and research over the years, including by the Japanese Hyper Building Study Group, which was established following the economic crash in 1994.

However, the estimated cost to build a 33,000-foot-tall structure with a steel column weighing 10 billion tons – dwarfing any existing building – would be a staggering £23 trillion, according to a report in Malevus.

The professor and architect revealed his plans, which were estimated to take between 100 to 150 years to complete, at the Brazil Earth Summit in 1992.

Unsurprisingly, he drew inspiration from the Tower of Babel in the Book of Genesis, where everyone spoke the same language and began constructing a city that would reach the heavens.

The prohibitive cost was one of the main reasons why the tower never materialised, particularly as it would require relocating people and businesses in the area to free up the necessary space.

Another issue is that the building’s extreme height would severely limit airspace.

Moreover, the upper floors would be uninhabitable due to outside temperatures dropping as low as -55C at times.

Nonetheless, the plans for the skyscraper included dividing it into various zones, encompassing residential and commercial areas, and even a ‘space territory’ where a space development centre was proposed.