Kingdom Tower (Height: 1 Km) @ Jeddah To Be Designed By AS+GG
The Arabs love to break records and when it comes to constructing tallest towers in the world, money is no bar for them. We informed you few days ago that #-Link-Snipped-# will steal the title of the World's Tallest Building from Burj Khalifa (Recommended: #-Link-Snipped-#). However, engineering the design of world's next tallest building is no simple job. Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill architecture has won the contract to design the Kingdom Tower at Jeddah near the Red Sea. The owners wanted to build a mile long tower, however the soil analysis at the construction site restricted the total height of the tower at one kilometer. AS+GG says the new tower will beat Burj Khalifa by at least 173 meters.
#-Link-Snipped-#
Quick facts about Kingdom Tower are as follows: The total construction area is 530k square meters. As of now, the foundation drawings are complete and construction is set to begin very soon. The final building will have 59 elevators, 12 escalators. The elevators will travel at the speed of 10 meters/second. The total cost of building Kingdom Tower will be $1.2b. The Kingdom Tower is a brainchild of His Royal Highness Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud. AS+SG calls their design of the tower as "highly technological and distinctly organic".
Detailed Coverage: smithgill.com
#-Link-Snipped-#
Quick facts about Kingdom Tower are as follows: The total construction area is 530k square meters. As of now, the foundation drawings are complete and construction is set to begin very soon. The final building will have 59 elevators, 12 escalators. The elevators will travel at the speed of 10 meters/second. The total cost of building Kingdom Tower will be $1.2b. The Kingdom Tower is a brainchild of His Royal Highness Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud. AS+SG calls their design of the tower as "highly technological and distinctly organic".
Detailed Coverage: smithgill.com
Replies
You are reading an archived discussion.
Related Posts
Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have come up with a chip that can detect unknown liquids within seconds. The technology used to develop the chip is called...
Lexus has recently announced that its latest GS 350 mid size sport sedan will be revealed two weeks later on August 18 in conjunction with Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. The...
Engineers at the California Institute Of Technology (Caltech) have engineered the next generation of computer chip technology called 'Photonic Chips'. The photonic chips allow integrated circuits to use light instead...
In a latest technological breakthrough, a modern glove device that gives vibrational feedback to the fingertips on physical interaction with surfaces has been formulated to develop wearers’ sensitivity of touch....
Burning man festival held in Black Rock Desert, Nevada every year brings the best of art, technology and gadgets together. With this year’s theme being ‘Rites of Passage’ artist Jim...