Jeddah Tower
Jeddah Tower (برج جدة) Kingdom Tower (برج المملكة) |
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Jeddah Tower under construction November 2019 | |
Basic data | |
Place: | Jeddah , Saudi Arabia |
Construction time : | 2013-2024 |
Opening: | planned for 2024 |
Status : | Under construction |
Architectural style : | Modern |
Architect : | Adrian Smith , Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture , Chicago, USA |
Use / legal | |
Usage : | Office, hotel, apartments, observation tower and platform, shopping mall |
Owner : | Kingdom Holding Company , Abraar Holding Company , Abdulrahman Hassan Sharbatly , Saudi Binladin Group , Al-Walid ibn Talal |
Client : | CBRE Group , Bauer AG |
Technical specifications | |
Height : | 1000 m |
Floors : | 200+ |
Elevators : | 59 |
Usable area : | 319,000-530,000 m² |
Building material : | Construction: reinforced concrete and steel. Facade: glass |
Building-costs: | $ 1.23 billion |
The Jeddah Tower , formerly known as the Kingdom Tower , is a construction project in the north of Jeddah , on the west coast of Saudi Arabia . At the time of completion, the skyscraper will be the tallest structure in the world at an estimated 1007 meters. In January 2018, work on the skyscraper was stopped at a previously achieved height of 256 m; it is planned to resume in 2020.
The project is commissioned by the Kingdom Holding Company , 94% owned by billionaire Prince al-Walid ibn Talal . The architect is Adrian Smith , who also designed the Burj Khalifa . The project is to be implemented by the British company Hyder Consulting in cooperation with Arup . The cost is estimated at $ 1.2 billion. The tower will be the centerpiece of the first construction phase of the USD 20 billion building project Jeddah Economic City . The highest viewing platform in the world is to be located at a height of 652 meters .
The city will stretch along the Red Sea on the northern side of Jeddah.
The building
The spiral-shaped, needle-like skyscraper was originally intended to be up to 1,600 meters high and was therefore also called the Mile High Tower . Due to the nature of the ground, the planned height had to be reduced to 1007 meters, although the final height has not yet been communicated (as of 2013). This makes it higher than the 828 meter high Burj Khalifa in Dubai , currently the tallest building in the world . The Jeddah Tower is to house offices, living space and a hotel on 500,000 square meters.
implementation
At first the construction seemed improbable. The project was approved at the end of March 2011 and commissioned at the beginning of August 2011. The contractor is the Bin Ladin Group .
The structure was founded on 270 piles , which reach between 45 and 110 meters in depth and should have a diameter of 1.5 to 1.8 meters. The preparatory work for this began in December 2012, the foundation work actually began in January 2013. At the end of July 2016, 45 floors had already been completed; as of the beginning of February 2018, 63 floors had been completed. The foundation piles were made by a Saudi Arabian subsidiary of the Upper Bavarian construction company Bauer AG .
The lift systems are supplied by the Finnish manufacturer Kone .
Completion was originally planned for 2018, but has been postponed by several years.
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See also
- List of tallest structures in the world
- List of tallest buildings in the world
- List of tallest buildings in Asia
- List of tallest buildings in the Middle East
- List of tallest buildings in Saudi Arabia
Web links
- www.kingdom.com.sa
- www.homesthetics.net: The Power and Wealth Icon of the 21st Century Kingdom Tower by Adrian Smith
- World of Architecture: Kingdom Tower Finally Going Under Construction
- Jeddah Tower on CTBUH Skyscraper Center
- gianttowers.com: Kingdom Tower Jeddah Construction
- Jeddah Economic Company
Individual evidence
- ^ Architect Adrian Smith. Retrieved on August 29, 2020 .
- ^ Brian Murphy: Why Saudi Arabia plans to build the world's tallest skyscraper. In: The Washington Post . December 1, 2015, accessed January 26, 2016 .
- ↑ object Object: Jeddah Tower Progress: What Happened to the World's Tallest Tower? March 5, 2020, accessed April 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Owner May Ramp Up Construction of Jeddah Tower, Planned to Be Over 1 km. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Arif Sharif: lwaleed picks burj khalifa architect adrian smith to design kingdom tower. In: Bloomberg . October 22, 2010, accessed March 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Evelin Past: Start of construction for the tallest skyscraper in the world. (No longer available online.) In: WirtschaftsBlatt . October 8, 2012, archived from the original on October 11, 2012 ; Retrieved March 11, 2013 .
- ↑ JEC & Alinma Investment in an SAR 8.4 Billion Real Estate Fund Deal Fund objective is to develop Jeddah Tower and the Jeddah Economic City infrastructure. (No longer available online.) In: Kingdom Holding Company . November 29, 2015, archived from the original on November 30, 2015 ; accessed on January 26, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tower details on www.skyscrapercity.com
- ↑ Kingdom Tower in Jeddah. In: kingdomtowerskyscraper.com. Retrieved June 13, 2013 .
- ↑ La Kingdom Tower, con más de 1 km de altura, será el edificio más alto del mundo. In: inmodiario.com. March 12, 2013, Retrieved March 12, 2013 (Spanish).
- ↑ Norbert Schwaldt: Kingdom Tower: Bin Laden Group builds the world's largest tower. In: The world . August 3, 2011, accessed March 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Carsten Rost: Feet for the tallest house in the world. In: Donaukurier . October 8, 2012, accessed March 12, 2013 .
- ^ Jeddah Tower: Future world's tallest building delayed after contractor problems. Retrieved on August 2, 2019 .
Coordinates: 21 ° 44 ′ 2.8 " N , 39 ° 4 ′ 58.7" E