Kingdom Tower

The Kingdom Tower (Arabic: برج المملكة, DMG Burǧ al - Mamlaka ) is a construction project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The skyscraper would be the time of completion, the tallest building in the world.

The client of the project is the Kingdom Holding Company, a company owned by the Saudi royal family. The architect is Adrian Smith, who has also designed the Burj Khalifa. Implementation will be through the British company Hyder Consulting in collaboration with Arup. The cost is estimated at $ 1.2 billion. He will be the centerpiece and first construction phase of the 20 billion -dollar construction project in Kingdom City, which is along the Red Sea, on the north side of Jeddah, built. At an altitude of 502 meters, the highest observation deck in the world to be.

The building

The helical needle-like skyscraper was originally supposed to be up to 1600 meters high and was therefore called also Mile High Tower. A trip to the top would take at a height of 1600 meters with an average lift of twelve, with high-speed elevator five minutes. The proposed height is 1007 meters. Thus it is higher than the present in Dubai 828 -meter-high Burj Khalifa, currently the tallest building in the world. The Kingdom Tower will be home to 500,000 square meters of offices, residential space and a hotel.

Implementation

First, the building seemed unlikely. End of March 2011 the project was approved yet and, in early August 2011 in order. The contractor is the Bin Laden Group.

The building is founded on 270 piles ranging 45-110 meters in depth and should have a diameter of 1.5 to 1.8 meters. The preliminary work on this started in December 2012, the real start of foundation work was in January 2013. The foundation piles are manufactured by a Saudi Arabian subsidiary of Bauer AG.