The three facades feature notches that both “confuse the wind” and create shadow-shielding areas to reduce thermal loads. Formally the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia was closed to tourists (but not to Muslims going on the hajj). Principally residential, the tower has 325 apartments, a hotel with serviced apartments, and 7 floors of offices. The Jeddah Tower is meant to be the centerpiece and the first phase of a massive development work that would be a gleaming tourist attraction called Jeddah Economic City. CNN Jeddah Tower, Saudi Arabia When the 3,280-feet-tall (1,000-meter-tall) Jeddah Tower opens in 2020, it will knock Dubais iconic Burj Khalifa off its throne as the tallest skyscraper. At over 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) and a total built area of 530,000 square meters (5.7 million square feet), Jeddah Towerformerly known as Kingdom Towerwill be the centerpiece and first construction phase of the 20 billion Kingdom City development in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, near the Red Sea. Upon its completion, Jeddah Tower will be the tallest building in the world with a height of over 1 kilometer and a total construction area of 530,000 squares meters. – far less usable space than One WTC, which is about half its height – the extraordinary height of the tower is unoccupied in its highest superstructure, but includes the world’s highest observation deck at 664 m. The Jeddah tower, previously known as the kingdom tower is a skyscraper nearing its completion in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. With a gross floor area of only 243,866 m. The slender, tapering triangular form of the tower is created by a Y-shaped plan like the buttressed-core structural system developed for the Burj Khalifa. Jeddah Tower is the focal point of a new district in the desert, Kingdom City, a residential and commercial project designed to grow to 57 million ft².
Jeddah, a port city on the coast of the Red Sea and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s commercial capital, has grown to more than 4 million people. The Jeddah Tower, formerly known as Kingdom Tower and now under construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, will rise to or above the target of 1,000 meters – a kilometer – and surpass the current world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, by nearly 200 meters.
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