Jeddah tower

The construction of the tower is planned in the Arabian desert . The total cost of the project, including the satellite city, is estimated at $ 20 billion, but the amount originally planned was no more than $ 10 billion. ^{[10] [11]} From the top of the tower, a territory within a radius of about 140 km will be visible . The planned number of storeys of the skyscraper is 167 floors, the planned total area of ​​530 thousand m². It is assumed that the satellite city will consist mainly of luxury housing, hotels and business centers. ^[12] The initial project involved the construction of a 1.6 km high skyscraper (about one mile ), but after analyzing the soils at the construction site, the height was reduced to one kilometer (the exact height, as in the case of Burj Khalifa, is kept secret until ). ^[13] Even with a reduced height, the tower will be the tallest building or structure ever built by man, ^[14] surpassing the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in the UAE by 180 meters.

The building is being built about 20 kilometers north of the port of Jeddah , later this territory should become part of the city. ^[15] The second phase of the project after the construction of the building is the arrangement of infrastructure for the satellite city.

The project was developed by Hyder Consulting , a British company, Omrania & Associates from Saudi Arabia completed the architectural project , Arup , the British company , and Bechtel, the American project manager, in March 2010, chief architect of Kingdom Tower ” Adrian Smith was appointed, who oversaw the development of the currently highest construction of the Burj Khalifa .

In April 2011, several news agencies reported that the construction plan was adopted and the total cost of the facility would be about $ 30 billion. ^[6]

In August 2011, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal signed an agreement with the development company Bin Laden Group ^[16] , and the architectural firm Adrian Smith “AS + GG Architecture” announced that work on the tower project was coming to an end, its height would be 1007 m. It was stated that the work on the zero-cycle project has been completed, a tender has been announced for carrying out bored works. The cost of the tower itself at the design stage was estimated at $ 1.2 billion, and the cost of the whole Kingdom City complex at $ 20 billion. ^[17]

In October 2012, the German company Bauer received a contract to build a foundation for a 110-meter-deep skyscraper. ^[18] By May 22, 2013, the active phase of construction began. ^{[19] The} drilling operations were completed in December 2013. ^[20] February 12, 2014 the construction of the foundation was completed ^[21] .

By July 2016, the skyscraper core construction reached 61 floors (246 m), the floor structure - 50 floors ^[22] . As of October 22, 2017, 56 floors were completed, and the central core, containing elevator shafts and stairwells, reached the 63rd floor. As of February 25, 2018, 65 floors have been completed.

In early 2018, the construction of the tower was suspended due to investigations and the imprisonment of its main financiers. ^[23] In March 2018, it was planned to resume construction of the tower ^[24] , but this did not happen, and by July 2019, the 65th floor remains the last one built.

Since February 2019, no news has been received from the frozen construction site. Will the construction be resumed, not reported.

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  January 10, 2015, 12 floors

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  June 7, 2015, 23 floors

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  July 13, 2016, 44 floors

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  December 2, 2016, 47 floors

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