Jeddah Tower The Tallest Tower That Never Was

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Along the Red Sea on the shores of the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah On the north side of this busy city, you'll find holiday resorts, sparsely built homes and large patches of sand. You'll also find a construction project unlike any other, one that has been put on hold since 2018. This planned tallest structure on Earth was abandoned in the hot Arabian Desert since then.

Once promising and ambitious, this project spiraled into a spectacular failure. Unsurprisingly, the future of this once record-breaking tower remains to be seen.

Mega projects like Dubai's Islands, which are meant purely to show off a nation's engineering prowess on the world stage, often have unforeseen obstacles along the way.

Many nations around the world are looking for opportunities to diversify their economies away from oil extraction. The Saudi Arabia just like the United Arab Emirates are no different in this regard. Alongside the saudi government's attempt to attract international companies, tourism was another huge focus in attracting investment. Dubai has been making waves since the Burj Khalifa was built and for many, it's put Dubai on the map. This made Saudi Arabia desire to have one of these mega structures of there own. The Burj Khalifa had been well underway in Dubai. So the Saudi-backed kingdom's company started developing their own idea of what it would be like to build a skyscraper tower of there own on land they selected in the city of Jeddah. The plot is over 5 square kilometers or 1300 acres all to build what they called the jeddah tower.

The Jeddah Economic City master-plan would cover everything from a luxury shopping district with its own thematic town, to commercial areas where companies could conduct their business. There would also be green space and water features to provide the best opportunities for people to live, work and play in a prosperous community. The main attraction out of this plan would be Kingdom Tower. The Kingdom Tower is the tallest building in the world and would be a symbol of our country's pride. Rather than disclosing specifics, company officials have said that it's estimated to go up 168 floors and reach 3,300 feet or 1053 meters in height. Let’s compare, the Statue of Liberty is 305 feet tall or 93 meters, while the Freedom Tower in New york city stands 1776 feet tall or 541 meters. The current world record holding structure, the Burj Khalifa, reaches 2 716.5 feet or 828 meters into the sky.

Kingdom Tower, with its sleek design and four Seasons hotel, would not only shatter the world record but also leave ample room for a commercial office space.

on the 157th floor, the developers originally proposed to include a helicopter pad in the tower. The only break in the tower's design is its sleek and tapering structure. This was later scrapped due to safety concerns at that height, but the cantilevered Edge remained on the drawing board. Now called The Sky Terrace, it would have been the tallest observation deck in the world. Kingdom Holdings hired famed architect Adrian Smith, who designed the Burj Khalifa, for the Kingdom tower project as far back as 2008. The developers assessed the soil conditions and expected the cost to be over 20 billion dollars when it's all said and done, adjusted for inflation, you'll end up with an additional $7 billion of cost. Keep in mind that the project was supposed to come in phases and the first was set to open in 2016. This was also being planned during the economic crisis which right from the start was slowing everything down. For many years, Kingdom Holdings fought and eventually achieved success in overcoming the economic recession. They were able to find strong partners who can help them with the mega project. the kingdom company anticipated breaking ground in 2011, it wouldn't actually be until April 2013 when the foundation work actually began on the Kingdom tower. A new completion date was set for 2018 after the building began to spring up from the ground in September 2014. by 2015, progress continued to be made floor by floor with the tower taking shape gradually. By this time, the Kingdom Tower had its name changed to Jeddah Tower to honor the city it was being built in. by November of 2015, the financing had been secured to finish the tower and everything was moving forward as planned. that was until 2017, when the problems began.

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