Mile-high skyscraper to DOUBLE height of world's tallest building

Sky Mile Tower will stand at 1,700m – more than a mile high and double the size of Dubai's 828m Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building.

It will be a dizzying FIVE TIMES as big as London's Shard, Europe's tallest building.

Next Tokyo and the Sky Mile Tower is planned to open by 2045.

The new tower will house 55,000 people as well as shopping centres, restaurants, hotels, gyms and even health clinics.

Special lifts will move sideways as well as up and down to transport people around the structure.

It will have six sides to protect it from the wind.

Saudi Arabia is already busy building a building that will dwarf the Burj Khalifa in Jeddah, on the Red Sea.

Jeddah Tower – previously called Kingdom Tower – will be 1008m tall.

The £1billion construction was originally planned to be one mile high, but had to be downsized as the ground would be unable to support it.

The impressive structure, which will be the world's tallest building, is expected to be completed by 2020.

But if the Sky Mile Tower gets the green light, it will also double its size.

(dailystar.co.uk)