Royal tower of saudi arabia. Saudi Arabia is building the tallest tower in the world. Kingdom Tower. Saudi Arabia
- this is the name of the skyscraper that is planned to be built in the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and whose height will be more than 1000 meters. The building will contain 200 floors, and the total area of its premises will be 530,000 square meters! Undoubtedly, this skyscraper will become a new wonder of the world and will attract even more tourists from all over the world to Saudi Arabia. Three years ago, Saudi billionaire Prince Al Waleed bin Talal announced that he intended to build the tallest building in the world in the city of Jeddah to compete with the city of Dubai and its Burj Khalifa skyscraper. But Kingdom Tower will be 173 meters higher than Burj Khalifa! An entire district will be built around the skyscraper - Kingdom City.
A 1000-meter skyscraper will be built in Saudi Arabia
Construction began at the end of 2013 and it is planned that the building will be put into operation in 2018. The Kingdom Tower project was designed by architects Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill, and its initial cost is 1.23 billion US dollars. The construction of the record tall building will require approximately 80,000 tons of steel! The total estimated cost of the entire Kingdom City project is expected to be approximately $20 billion.
Comparison of the height of the Kingdom Tower skyscraper with the tallest buildings on the planet:
Kingdom Tower is 173 meters higher than Burj Khalifa in Dubai 
Saudi Arabia presents itself to the whole world as an influential and successful country that has huge oil reserves. But this is not enough for kings and princes. The image of a futuristic country is the future of Saudi Arabia, announced by ambitious rulers.
The project of the Royal Tower in the city of Jeddah is a move that will allow the country to declare itself as “the country where the tallest building in the world was built.” Almost ten years passed from the first ambitious idea to build a mile-high building to the laying of the foundation.
Al-Waleed ibn Talal Al Saud, the prince, the richest man in the Middle East, is the author and main leader of the project. His words clearly describe the main function that the Royal Tower should perform:
This will be our message to the world of finance and economics, which should not be ignored. It is important for us from a political point of view to show the whole planet that we can invest in our country, despite the turmoil and revolution happening around us states Al-Waleed ibn Talal Al Saud
The tower is valued at $1.23 billion. It will be the central and first facility in the Kingdom City project, which will be located 32 kilometers from Jeddah.
Adrian Smith - architect and design of the Royal Tower
The designer of the Royal Tower was Adrian Smith, who, by the way, is the designer of the tallest skyscraper in the world located in Dubai - Burj Khalifa with a height of 828 meters. Andrian will have to overcome his own bar and think through how the building will be built, which should be higher than its predecessor in Dubai.
The height of the Royal Tower will be 1000 meters, which is 172 meters higher than the Burj Khalifa. Initially, the prince set the task of developing a project with a height of 1600 meters, but the nature of the soil at the construction site is such that a tower of such a height would be too heavy and would simply go underground.
It is expected that the building will have about 200 floors, which will be divided between a Four Seasons hotel, office space, luxury condominiums, and on the top floors an observatory. The total area will be about 5 million square meters.
Each side of the Tower will be immersed in the shade due to special recesses, the terraces of which offer views of Jeddah and the Red Sea, and glazing with a high degree of thermal insulation will reduce the cost of maintaining a comfortable temperature. The entire building is planned to be surrounded by cozy patios.
59 elevators, 5 of which are double-deck, will serve guests and employees of the tower. The building will also have 12 escalators. To compensate for atmospheric overload, the elevators will have a special speed that is different from the speed of regular elevators.
Laying of the foundation was completed in December 2013. The tower itself is planned to be commissioned in 2017. As of February 2015, construction of the basement and first floor is in full swing.
Not far from Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), construction has begun on the tallest skyscraper in the world - the "Kingdom Tower", the height of which, according to the project, should exceed 1 km.
At the moment, the tallest existing building is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the height of this giant skyscraper is 828 m. The height of the Kingdom Tower will have to be 1,007 meters, which is 179 more than the height of the Burj Khalifa.
Construction of the Kingdom Tower skyscraper began in May this year, 32 km north of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Around the building there will be a small city where up to 80 thousand residents can live and which will consist mainly of luxury housing, hotels and business centers.
The project developer is the British company Hyder Consulting, and the architectural design will be carried out by Omrania & Associates from Saudi Arabia. You can already admire the photographs of the still “virtual” building and appreciate the scale of the project.
In April 2011, news agencies announced that the construction plan had been adopted and the total cost of the structure would be about $30 billion, although the initially planned amount was no more than $10 billion. For comparison, the cost of construction of the tallest skyscraper at the moment, the Burj Khalifa, is $1.5 billion USA.
Although the shape of the building resembles an igloo, which becomes thinner towards the top, the architects decided to add a small element - a round observation deck. Let's just hope that at such a height the wind won't be able to blow anyone away from this site.
Dubai, the capital of the UAE, the world champion of the largest and most expensive buildings, will soon have a rival. And it will be a city in Saudi Arabia.
The world's tallest tower, Burj Khalifa, located in Dubai, may soon lose its Guinness World Records title. This is possible if Saudi Arabia successfully implements its project to build an even larger building. This will require $1.23 billion.
Plans and undertakings
At the end of November, the Saudi Arabian government announced that companies such as Jeddah Economic Company and Saudi Arabia's Alinma Investment had signed a financial deal worth 8.4 billion Saudi reals ($2.2 billion), formalizing their plans to build in in the city of Jeddah the tallest tower in the world, called the Royal Tower.
The building is currently built up to the 26th floor, but its total height will be one kilometer. The skyscraper is planned to be completed by 2020. In contrast to this project, the Burj Khalifa reaches "only" 827 meters.
With this deal, the government plans to achieve unprecedented real estate development and also create a world-class urban center that will offer a cutting-edge lifestyle. The city will receive a new attraction that will attract tourists from all walks of life with its comprehensive services.
Architectural breakthrough
Called the Royal Tower, the building will have 200 floors. It will have views of the Red Sea. To construct a building of this scale would require 5.7 million square feet of concrete and 80,000 tons of steel, according to Saudi Arabian publications. 
Building such a tall building on the coast, where it can be damaged by sea water, is no small feat. The foundation, which is 60 meters deep, will have to withstand the influence of salt water from the nearby sea. Therefore, rigorous strength testing is carried out various types concrete.
Wind loading is another hazard for a building of this size. To combat this problem, the tower will have to constantly change its shape. Since this will happen every few floors, gusts of wind will go around the skyscraper on both sides, so the load will not be as dangerous.
Another problem may be the delivery of concrete to the upper floors. Perhaps the engineers could use the same technologies used to create the Burja Kharifa tower. Then 6 million cubic meters of concrete were pumped upward using a simple pump. Typically, this was done at night, when the temperature was low enough to prevent the successful delivery and installation of materials. 
Project prospects
Despite the complexity and ambition of the project, it has every chance of successful completion, according to the council's director of tall buildings. He claims that at the moment they can build a tower one kilometer high. It is possible that a two-kilometer building can also be done by engineers. For structures whose height will exceed two kilometers, it will be necessary to carry out a lot of preliminary work.
[:RU]The joint venture of EC Harris and Mace has won the contract to build the Kingdom Tower super skyscraper in Jeddah, which will be the tallest building in the world. Actually, such a super skyscraper was supposed to be built in Dubai last year (Al Burj), but due to the global financial crisis that broke out in 2009, the project was frozen. However, the vainglorious desire to be the first to overcome the 1000-meter mark turned out to be so great that the construction of a super-tall tower nevertheless began in Saudi Arabia, 50 km from the city of Jeddah.
The planned completion date is 2018, the construction cost is estimated at 1.2 billion US dollars. Kingdom Tower will be the tallest building in the world and will be 180 m taller than the Burj Khalifa Tower. Construction is scheduled to begin this year.
It will be the central part of the Royal City, which will be located north of Jeddah, overlooking the Red Sea. The Royal City will include residential, commercial complexes, hotels, offices, shopping, educational and commercial centers.
Waleed Abdul Jalil Batterjee, CEO of JEC, said that the idea of building the tallest tower in the world in Jeddah belongs to His Royal Highness Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. In addition, the project will help create hundreds of jobs for Saudi citizens.
An architectural team led by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill (AS+GG), based in Chicago, created the design for Kingdom Tower. 
The Kingdom Tower will be an architectural monument, which will clearly demonstrate Saudi Arabia's ambitions in the world.
Mark Reynolds, head of the Mace construction group, said: “Kingdom Tower is a project of international significance and we are delighted to be part of the joint venture. We look forward to realizing the vision of His Royal Highness Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, which will provide international recognition for the economic and cultural status of the Kingdom. »
The total construction area will be more than 500,000 m2, the mixed-use structure of the building will include a luxury five-star Four Seasons hotel, apartments, first-class office space, luxury condominiums and an observatory that will be taller than existing observation decks in the world.
