New Delhi: Saudi Arabia is all set to begin the work next week on what will become the tallest building in the world and will rise over the Burj Khalifa.
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai, standing at 828 meters, has been the tallest standing tower in the world till date. It will be dethroned by the Kingdom Tower that is to come up in Saudi Arabia and will rise more than 1,000 metres (3,280 feet). Kingdom Tower will be 568 feet taller than the Khalifa tower.
Foundation work for the Kingdom Tower began in December, and above-ground work will start on April 27, said Mashable. The Kingdom Tower is expected to reach completion over a timescale of 63 months.
The Kingdom Tower will stretch a kilometre high and include a hotel, serviced apartments, luxury condominiums and offices, Kingdom said in a statement. The building, reportedly, will have 200 floors, 160 of which are habitable.
The tower is part of the first phase of Kingdom City, which is being built north of the Red Sea port city.
It is expected to cost around $1.2 billion and will form part of a hotel, retail and luxury residential project.
The tower, designed by Chicago-based Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture, is the first phase of the planned Kingdom City, a sprawling, $20 billion, two-square mile urban development project first announced in 2008 as the global financial crisis was squeezing world markets.
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