The world's tallest building will be one kilometer high

[LiberalArkie]

Scheduled for completion in 2018, the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia is poised to overtake the Burj Khalifa in the race to the top

By Amar Toor

The Burj Khalifa in Dubai currently holds the title of world's tallest building, but its architects are now looking to overtake it with a new project in Saudi Arabia. Known as the Jeddah Tower, or Kingdom Tower, the building will rise at least 3,280 feet when it's completed in 2018, making it the world's first to reach a full kilometer into the air. (The Burj Khalifa is 2,716 feet tall.) This week, the Saudi government announced that $2.2 billion in funding had been secured to build Jeddah City, including the tower.

The tower was designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, and construction up to the 26th floor has already been completed. But there's still a lot to be done. When completed, the $1.23 billion project will have 200 floors that will be used for offices, apartments, and a Four Seasons hotel. It will also overlook the Red Sea, which posed engineering challenges due to the nearby saltwater and high wind levels. That explains its deep, 200-foot foundations, and its angular, wind-shielding shape.

Smith and Gill say they also incorporated some of the design language from the Burj Khalifa, with its moat and cluster of surrounding towers. "Its specific form comes more from the image of a new palm about to spread its fronds," Smith told The Guardian earlier this year.

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[Kaleva]

1. That's one big satellite tv dish near the top.

[spanone]

2. silly, that's a diving board for the pool.

[Kaleva]

3. No telling where the diver will end up considering the high winds!

They ought to place the pool some distance downwind and the diver will curve ball to it.

[pinboy3niner]

5. *snort*

"Hold my beer and watch this!"

[Art_from_Ark]

40. What? Beer? In Saudi Arabia?

The guy would be thrown in jail before he had a chance to make the jump.

[Bucky]

28. If you did fall off, at least you'd have time to phone your loved ones good-bye

even if you have Sprint

[spanone]

34. Bwahahahahaaaa

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[LiberalArkie]

4. Go to the link. That is an observation porch.

[Glassunion]

13. No, that is the "Aw hell nope!" porch.

[Photographer]

19. You win the internet today award! LOL!

[Waldorf]

20. Ain't that the truth!

[Recursion]

44. And the nopetopus says...

[kentauros]

33. Looks more like a UFO ran into it.

"Honestly, ociffer, I didn't see it!"

[arcane1]

6. How the hell did Adrian Smith find time to become an architect?

Iron Maiden tours so much, how could he do it? Maybe that explains his absence those few years

[Mendocino]

7. The world needs a bigger peni-

Whoops sorry... wrong group.

[LiberalArkie]

8. Now I am wondering that with the ocean level rising, how are you going to get in that

sucker with the entrance being under water.

[Blue_Tires]

9. Don't we have the #1 anything in America anymore?

'Merica...

[LiberalArkie]

11. Don't we still have #1 largest war dept. & #1 budget all those neat things.

[forsaken mortal]

29. Well

We still have the highest incarceration rate per capita in the world. That's something that proves we're the best isn't it? Isn't it?

[LiberalArkie]

31. U.S.A.!!! U.S.A.!!! U.S.A.!!!

[hedda_foil]

12. Easy. They just turn the observation deck into the main entrance and no-parking circle for yachts.

I just hope they're using stainless steel, though.

Also, they can use the sunken levels for scuba diving.

[Glassunion]

14. More guns per capita than anyone else...

'Merica! Fuck yeah!

[Glorfindel]

15. Of course. We have more prisoners than anyone else.

USA! USA! USA!

[Warren DeMontague]

21. As critical as I am of our criminal justice system that fills prison cells with pot smokers

Im not sure I would trade it with Saudi Arabia's.

[pinboy3niner]

22. Moral: We should be careful what we axe for.

[Warren DeMontague]

23. Or, a bird in the hand isnt worth nearly as much

If you dont get to keep either the bird or the hand.

[hunter]

10. Oh bother, yet another big artificial penis.

.

[maxsolomon]

16. One question: WHY?

is real estate at a premium in Jedda? if there no room left in the center of this city to develop?

this is just oil money one-upmanship. a gilded prison for it's builders, maintenance workers, and every woman who lives in it. odds are 2/3 of it will sit empty for decades.

[LiberalArkie]

18. They have so many billions (maybe trillions) just laying around drawing 1% interest

Why not just show how much more money you can burn than one of your cousins.

I think of the Romans during their heyday or the Greeks back then.

In the article it said the foundation on that thing went down 200 feet.

[CBGLuthier]

45. Because Dubai has the biggest at the moment. And one thing no arab will ever do is let some other

tribe beat them at anything. Those folks hate each other damned near as much as they hate us and Israel.

[brooklynite]

17. Hmm, Kim Jong Un better get to work...

[JHB]

24. What's Arabic for 'towering inferno'?

[Rstrstx]

43. Jeddah

What could possibly go wrong?

[DrDan]

25. got to visit the Burj last month - incredible building - the outside air temp

can be 15 degrees different from bottom to top.

Beautiful at night!

[valerief]

26. Men are always obsessed with their erections being the longest. nt

[Throd]

27. I guess I'll be the first in this thread to say it's pretty cool.

I would love to see blueprints of the foundation and structure necessary to support this thing.

[Kalidurga]

30. The architect is clearly not concerned about the ramifications

last time people built a big tower like that we got 10,000 different languages.

insert {sarc} here.

[leveymg]

32. At $2.2 billion, it's about what the Saudis have spent on ISIS or what we shell out for a carrier.

They're getting better value.

[Jesus Malverde]

37. Lulz

[hifiguy]

35. Like sticking an abstract sculpture of a rose into a pile of horse manure.

KSA will continue to be the worst country and worst culture on earth no matter how many pretty buildings go up.

[TheFarS1de]

36. Looks like a modern day Pyramid ...

and ironically it will more than likely be built by slave labour .

[Recursion]

39. The Pyramids were built by union labor

There's a record of a stonemason's strike during the construction. (They were paid in beer. Sweet gig.)

[TheFarS1de]

41. Stone masons probably werent hauling the goods ...

So I will pass on the unionised labour idea

[47of74]

38. Sounds like a giant male reproductive organ measuring contest to me.

[Aerows]

42. Lord. "Mine's bigger than yours"

never ends well.

Are those sharks with lasers on their heads in the pond?