Is there a natural limit to how high skyscrapers can be built because at some point they can no longer support the weight of their own structure?
And approximately how high would this limit be?
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It is estimated that the current state of construction technology limits the height of skyscrapers to about 2 km. Although it is possible to build higher constructions, it is no longer possible to use them.
New techniques, new materials, new boundaries.
"The maximum achievable height of skyscrapers is from a technical point of view about 1.5 to 2 km – although higher structures would be constructable, they would hardly be usable as buildings, as the skyscraper could almost only carry its own construction."
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolkenkratzer#:~:text=The%20maximum%20accessible%20H%C3%B6he%20ofits%20ownConstruction%20carrier%20k%C3%B6nnte.
2 km, madness
With aluminum it is probably even higher
too soft for
Saudi Arabia apparently has plans in the drawer for a 2 km high skyscraper. Whether this is realized is uncertain.
Do you know the highest skyscraper in the world? There's the border, right now. That's why you couldn't build a higher one.