Airbus-Topped Sky Hotel

A proposed 580-meter Emirates Air Hotel imagines aviation as a permanent part of Dubai's skyline

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Yagmur Baydır
December 16, 2025

Dear PA reader,

Today’s skyline-focused stories trace how vertical ambition is being reimagined across continents.

In Dubai, the proposed 580-meter Emirates Air Hotel pushes hospitality into the clouds. Saudi Arabia’s NEOM Sky Stadium takes spectacle further, envisioning a gravity-defying venue embedded high above the desert as part of the kingdom’s broader future-city narrative. The Rise Tower proposal signals another chapter in Saudi Arabia’s race for iconic supertalls.

The Analemma Tower concept stretches imagination to its limit, proposing the world’s first skyscraper suspended from space, orbiting Earth as a provocative thought experiment on technology, habitation, and planetary scale. The idea of a mega-skyscraper in the Alps near Zermatt, meanwhile, raises sharper questions about spectacle, tourism, and the environmental cost of building tall in fragile landscapes.

Rounding out the issue, a global overview of the top 10 super-tall buildings currently under construction reveals how the race upward continues unabated, driven by ambition, engineering prowess, and the enduring allure of height.

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