This work was Prince Al Waleed bin Talal of Saudi-Arabia investment totaling up to 20 billion dollars.Expectedly, it will soon become the first tower reaches a height of 1 kilometer, higher than the highest skyscraper tower Burj Khalifa near the 200m world.
Which is a rich country in the world most, Saudi Arabia has excess money to do the unthinkable to.And most recently, the Central Asian country this powerful investment decision 20 billion to build the world's tallest tower: Kingdom Tower. According to some sources, this tower will officially become the king of the sky, reaching a height of 1km in 2018.
Visualization of the tower Kingdom Tower, the tallest in the world in the future.
There are interesting things around the tower?
1. Estimates Kingdom Tower will have an altitude of approximately 3280 feet (approximately 1,000 meters), higher than the world's tallest building Burj Khalifa currently 172M and approximately 3 times the Eiffel Tower. Initially, the tower is designed height of 1,600m, but deems geological features of the area are not enough quality to withstand the pressure, Kingdom Tower was "truncated" nearly half the height.
Statistical tables of the highest buildings in the world.
2. initiate and direct the construction of the Kingdom Tower is Prince Al Waleed bin Talal of Saudi-Arabia, the richest country in the group of Arab countries. Total value of this great work was $ 20 billion (420 trillion)
Portrait "father" of the Kingdom Tower project, Prince Talal bin Al-Waleed.
3. More than just a lofty tower in the heart of Saudi Arabia, Kingdom Tower is part of Kingdom City urban area.
4. The balcony of the Kingdom Tower will have a radius of up to nearly 30 meters, was originally designed as an aircraft parking grounds.
Part unique balcony of Kingdom Tower.
5. To be able to support up to 1 km altitude, the Kingdom Tower foundation columns the size of a small bedroom with a radius of 3 meters and a height of over 100m.
6. Designed by architect Adrian Smith maestro, who also designed the tallest building Burj Khalifa today, not somewhere on the Kingdom Tower is useless. Unique shape of Kingdom Tower's architecture most advanced aerodynamics, can resist winds of extremely efficient.
Arian maestro architect Smith.
7. Total will have 59 floors and 12 elevators escalators inside Kingdom Tower. Half of the elevator would be kind of "double-decker" (Elevator 2 suites). However the speed of the elevator will not equal the normal elevator, avoid changing air pressure when rising will cause nausea for passengers.
8. This huge project consumes more than 80 thousand tons of steel. Many parts inside the tower will be pouring concrete to meter thick.
9. With deep shape at 3 sides, Kingdom Tower will be extremely cool patio section, along with the gorgeous views from the city Jeddah and the Red Sea.
The picturesque landscape of tower Kingdom Tower.
