![]() The 530,000-square-meter (5.7 million-square-foot) tower will anchor Kingdom City, a new $20-billion multi-use urban development. " Rising out of the desert at an expected construction cost of $1.2 billion, Jeddah Tower will offer a luxury hotel, serviced apartments, and condominiums, as well as prestigious office space. Despite the pause in construct they still confidently proclaim: Jeddah Tower (left), Dubai Creek Tower (middle), Burj Khalifa. According to reports from the chairman of Emaar Properties, the tower will go 100 meters higher than the Burj Khalifa, which gets 928 meters. The engineering group behind the tower, Thornton Tomasetti seems to be confident that the tower will be finally realized. Nevertheless, the estimated height of the Dubai Creek Tower is between 928-1400 meters which would make it the world's tallest building. When Will Construction Resume?: No One Seems To Know.It seems that the project has gotten mixed up with the politics of the kingdom. Asia's Share: Over Half Of The World's 100 tallest Skyscrapers are in AsiaĪs at the time of writing there don't seem to be any updates on when the construction of the Jeddah Tower will resume - or indeed if it will at all.That being said eight of the 10 tallest buildings now under construction are in China. The BBC also noted that offices around the world are filled with empty desks. Recently (November 2021), the BBC asked the question, Does the skyscraper still have a future? They note that China has restricted the construction of very tall buildings and has called them "vanity projects". ![]() Related: How Visiting The Eiffel Tower Has Changed In The Last 30 Years (In 13 Pictures) An Uncertain Future But in 2017 it looked like all the challenges had been overcome and it was plain sailing. The project actually got off to a rocky start with various delays since construction began in 2013.
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