Construction work is due to start on site on the later part of 2013, and it will take 63 months to complete the project. Pursuant to the contract, the joint venture will provide project, commercial and design management for the tower. Other towers in the city are King road tower Medina that has the largest LED display in the world and whose walls are used for advertisement and the Al Jawharah tower that was the city’s third-largest tower in 2014. The tower’s height will be at least 173 meters (568 feet) taller than the world’s current tallest building, Dubai’s 828-meter-tall Burj Khalifa and four times the size of The Shard in London. Picture taken from an 800-meter distance of the building site Ammar shaker, CC BY-SA 4. Building progress as of June 2015 (23 Floors). The world's tallest tower is the centrepiece of the yet to be built Jeddah Economic City. The Kingdom City will consist of over 5.3 million square meters of urban development and will include residential, commercial, hotel, offices, retail, educational and commercial centres as well as inland water features. The Jeddah Tower being built in northern Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The mega-tall skyscraper is expected to be the heart of Kingdom City, a 23-million square metre mixed-use development site which currently looks like a construction zone. Upon completion, the tower will feature a five-star luxury Four Seasons hotel, Four Seasons serviced apartments, first-class office space, luxury condominiums and an observatory that will be higher than the world’s current highest observation deck. The Kingdom Tower will stand over 1km in height, and will be a mixed-use facility with a total construction area of over 500,000 square meters. La tour de Djeddah (en anglais : Jeddah Tower, en arabe : ), anciennement « tour du Royaume » (en anglais : Kingdom Tower, en arabe : ), est un gratte-ciel en construction à Djeddah, en Arabie saoudite, qui devrait atteindre 1 000 m de hauteur. UK-based EC Harris in joint venture with Mace has secured a contract from Jeddah Economic Company (JEC) for the development of $1.2 billion Kingdom Tower project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which is touted to be the tallest tower in the world.īeing the centre piece of JEC’s $20 billion Kingdom City development plan, the Kingdom Tower is designed by Chicago-based Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture.
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