Speculative Fact #202: Mile High Skyscraper

The famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (designer of the Guggenheim museum), proposed a bold design in his 1956 book A Testament. In it, he proposed the construction of a skyscraper over a mile high. Had the building ever been constructed, it would have been almost double the height of the tallest existing building (the Burj Khalifa of Dubai).

While construction of the tower might not have been feasible at the time, he proposed some revolutionary designs and techniques that were used years later during the construction of skyscrapers such as the CN tower and the Taipei 101. Advances in building materials in the late twentieth and twenty first century are making, what once sounded farfetched and impossible, achievable engineering feats. How high will the skyscrapers of your stories grow? What will the skyline of your city look like?

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