Saudi Arabia will soon boast of the world’s tallest tower.
At a height of over 1,000 meters and a total construction area of 5.7 million square feet, KingdomTower will be the centerpiece of the KingdomCity development on a 5.3 million square meter site in north Jeddah.
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Images, courtesy: Jeddah Economic Company/Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Kingdom Tower to be the world's tallest building
Image: Aerial View of the project.Designed by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill, the Kingdom Tower will cost $1.2 billion to build, while the cost of the entire KingdomCity project is estimated to be $20 billion.
The project is estimated to completed by 2019.
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Kingdom Tower to be the world's tallest building
Image: Kingdom Tower.The tower’s height will be at least 173 meters (568 feet) taller than the world’s current tallest building, Dubai’s 828-meter-tall Burj Khalifa, which was also designed by Adrian Smith.
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Kingdom Tower to be the world's tallest building
Image: A landmark in Jeddah.Kingdom Tower will feature Four Seasons hotel, Four Seasons serviced apartments, office space, luxury condominiums and the world’s highest observatory.
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Kingdom Tower to be the world's tallest building
“With its slender, subtly asymmetrical massing, the tower evokes a bundle of leaves shooting up from the ground - a burst of new life that heralds more growth all around it,” Adrian Smith said.
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Kingdom Tower to be the world's tallest building
Image: View from the top.The Kingdom Tower complex will contain 59 elevators, including 54 single-deck and five double-deck elevators, along with 12 escalators. Elevators serving the observatory will travel at a rate of 10 meters per second in both directions.
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Kingdom Tower to be the world's tallest building
Photographs: Kingdom Tower
The Kingdom Tower complex will contain 59 elevators, including 54 single-deck and five double-deck elevators, along with 12 escalators.
Elevators serving the observatory will travel at a rate of 10 meters per second in both directions.
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Kingdom Tower to be the world's tallest building
The project will feature a high-performance exterior wall system that will minimise energy consumption.
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Kingdom Tower to be the world's tallest building
Each of Kingdom Tower’s three sides will provide outdoor terraces with stunning views of Jeddah and the Red Sea.
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Kingdom Tower to be the world's tallest building
Another unique feature of the design is a sky terrace, roughly 30 meters (98 feet) in diameter, at level 157.
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Kingdom Tower to be the world's tallest building
Image: Gordon Gill (left) and Adrian Smith, design architects of Kingdom Tower.The 23-hectare Kingdom Tower Waterfront District, which surrounds the tower and which will include residential and commercial buildings, a shopping mall, high-quality outdoor spaces and other amenities.
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