- this is the name of a skyscraper that is planned to be built in the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and whose height will be more than 1000 meters. The building will have 200 floors, and the total area of its premises will be 530,000 square meters! Undoubtedly, this skyscraper will become a new wonder of the world and will attract even more tourists from all over the world to Saudi Arabia. Three years ago, Saudi billionaire Prince Al Waleed bin Talal announced that he intends to build the world's tallest building in Jeddah to compete with Dubai and its Burj Khalifa skyscraper. But Kingdom Tower will be 173 meters taller than Burj Khalifa! A whole district will be built around the skyscraper - Kingdom city.
Saudi Arabia to build a 1000-meter skyscraper
Construction began at the end of 2013 and it is planned that the building will be commissioned in 2018. Kingdom Tower was designed by architects Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill and has an initial cost of $ 1.23 billion. It will take about 80,000 tons of steel to build a record-high building! The total estimated cost of the entire Kingdom City project is expected to be around $ 20 billion.
Comparison of the height of the Kingdom Tower skyscraper with the tallest buildings on the planet:
Kingdom Tower is 173 meters taller than Burj Khalifa in Dubai 
Not far from Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), construction has begun on the tallest skyscraper in the world - "Kingdom Tower", the height of which, according to the project, should exceed 1 km.
At the moment, the tallest existing building is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the height of this giant skyscraper is 828 meters. The height of the Kingdom Tower should be 1,007 meters, which is 179 more than the height of the Burj Khalifa.
Construction of the Kingdom Tower skyscraper began in May this year, 32 km north of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Around the building there will be a small town, where up to 80 thousand residents will be able to live and which will consist mainly of luxury housing, hotels and business centers.
The project developer is the British company Hyder Consulting, the architectural project will be carried out by Omrania & Associates from Saudi Arabia. You can already admire the photographs of the still "virtual" building and estimate the scale of the project.
In April 2011, news agencies announced that the construction plan had been accepted and the total cost of the construction was about $ 30 billion, although the initial planned amount was no more than $ 10 billion. For comparison, the construction cost of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest skyscraper at the moment, is $ 1.5 billion. . USA.
Although the shape of the building resembles a igloo, which becomes thinner towards the top, the architects decided to add a small element - a round observation deck. Let's just hope that at such a height the wind will not be able to blow anyone away from this site.
Dubai - the capital of the UAE - the world champion of the largest and most expensive buildings, will soon have a rival. And it will be a city in Saudi Arabia.
The tallest tower in the world, Burj Khalifa, located in Dubai, may soon lose its Guinness Book of Records title. This is possible if Saydovskaya Arabia successfully realizes its project to build an even larger building. This will require $ 1.23 billion.
Plans and undertakings
In late November, the Saudi Arabian government announced that companies such as the Jeddah Economic Company and Saudi Arabia's Alinma Investment had signed a Saudi R $ 8.4 billion ($ 2.2 billion) financial deal, in which they officially backed up their plans to build in the city of Jeddah is the tallest tower in the world, called the Royal.
Currently, the building has been built up to the 26th floor, but its total height will be one kilometer. The skyscraper is scheduled to be completed by 2020. In contrast to this project, the Burj Khalifa reaches "only" 827 meters.
Through this deal, the government plans to achieve unheard-of real estate development, as well as create a world-class urban center that will offer a cutting-edge lifestyle. The city will receive a new landmark that will attract tourists from all walks of life with its comprehensive services.
An architectural breakthrough
Called the King's Tower, the building will have 200 stories. It will overlook the Red Sea. To build a building of this magnitude would require 5.7 million square feet of concrete and 80,000 tons of steel, according to Saudi Arivia. 
Building such a tall building on the coast, where seawater could damage it, is not just a feat. The foundation, which is 60 meters deep, will have to withstand the influence of the salt water of the nearby sea. Therefore, rigorous testing of the strength of various types of concrete is carried out.
Wind load is another hazard for a building of this size. To combat this problem, the tower will have to constantly change its shape. Since this will happen every few floors, gusts of wind will bypass the skyscraper from two sides, so the load will not be as dangerous.
Delivery of concrete to the upper floors can be another problem. Perhaps the engineers could have used the same technology that was used to create the Burja Harifa tower. Then 6 million cubic meters of concrete was fed upward using a simple pump. As a rule, this was done at night, when the temperature was sufficiently low and could not interfere with the successful delivery and installation of materials. 
Prospects of the project
Despite the complexity and ambitiousness of the project, it has every chance of a successful completion, according to the director of the high-rise building council. He claims that at the moment they can build a tower one kilometer high. It is possible that a two-kilometer building is also within the power of engineers. For structures with a height of more than two kilometers, it will be necessary to perform a lot of preliminary work.
