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03/08/2011

Saudi Arabia bids for the top

Saudi Arabia has announced its intention to build a tower to rob Dubai’s record of world’s tallest building. Kingdom Tower,…

Saudi Arabia has announced its intention to build a tower to rob Dubai’s record of world’s tallest building. Kingdom Tower, to be built in Jeddah overlooking the Red Sea, will rise over a kilometre into the sky – some 200m taller than Dubai’s record holding Burj Khalifa – at a cost of approximately $1.2bn.

Chicago-based Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill architecture has been named as the architects of the tower, to be built by the Bin Laden Group on behalf of the Kingdom Holding Company. The tower is designed to be the focal point of Kingdom City, a 5.3 million sqm development expected to cost $20bn

Construction on the tower will begin immediately and is expected to take five years.

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