The design for the urban project will include residential, commercial, hotel, offices, retail, educational, and commercial properties. The kilometer-plus skyscraper will anchor the Kingdom City development in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, creating a global destination for the county’s second largest city. The tower is planned as the centerpiece of the Kingdom City development, a project of the Jeddah Economic Company. Jeddah Economic Company has embarked on a mission to construct Kingdom Tower, which will be the tallest building in the world upon completion. Construction is projected to begin later this year and take more than five years. While a building in Saudi Arabia tops the list (followed by a building in Malaysia), China dominates it, taking 20 out of the. By comparison, the tallest building currently under construction, the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia, will rise to 3,281 feet, with 167 floors. Together the firms have delivered more than 100 tall buildings worldwide. The building will include 63 floors and rise to a final height of 1,388 feet. Nonetheless, the tower will also have the world’s highest observatory deck ever built. Jeddah Economic Company website initially reported that the tower would stretch over 1000 meters but Engineering360 says those plans have changed. The Harris/Mace joint venture incorporates the tall-buildings expertise of EC Harris and RISE, a sister firm within ARCADIS, and Mace, an international company. The tower’s construction is estimated to cost the Kingdom Holding Company around US1.5 billion. An interdisciplinary team led by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture designed the 500,000-square-meter project, which will combine a luxury hotel, apartments, office space, and an observatory.

This was a big blow to the construction of the tower. Saudi firm Binladen Group will build the skyscraper, which will be three to four times as tall as London's Shard, another Mace/Harris project. From the construction commencement, everything went on as planned in the following years up to 2017 when the owner of Kingdom Holding Corporation was arrested as part of the Saudi Arabian purge with claims of corruption.

A joint venture consisting of Mace and consultant EC Harris will oversee the construction of Kingdom Tower: a 1,000-meter project proposed as the tallest building in the world.

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