News broke that Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture is designing Kingdom Tower, to be the world’s tallest building, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, near the Red Sea. [...] It has been reported that the tower’s height will be at least 173 meters (568 feet) taller than the world’s current tallest building, Dubai’s 828-meter-tall Burj Khalifa, which was designed by Adrian Smith while at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. — bustler.net
We just received a few more images of the proposed tower from Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture:
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That's awfully silly-looking.
this is old news and will probably never be built. every firm from here to shanghai has worked on this tower and the design has been pretty much the same in each iteration..
I agree, looks like it should have been on the Jetson's
Much better looking than the freedom tower. Kind of arabesque motif. Bin Laden family of contractors will build it. Anyone for tennis?
Obvious precedent: FLW's Mile High City.
So how much of that building do you think would remain empty? Always wondered about these tall buildings myself.
blah..blah...blah...lame way to qualify it as "architecture" because it is tall. Looks like they ripped The Wizard of Oz.
And with atomic powered elevators and a proven "taproot foundation"
"A Rapier, with handle the breadth of the hand, set firmly in the ground, blade upright, as simile.." FLW -
But then again - back in 1959, the future was limitless- or so it seemed - what happend?
Can anyone say 'tower of babel'. It seems a bit pointless to build so large, just because you can, at least the ancients thought they could reach heaven, this is just vanity.
Saudi Arabia is very patriarchal. You think they are trying to make, you know, a symbol of it?
Anyway, that round platform sticking out is really annoying. They should get rid of it. What is that anyway?
their helipad reminds me of Carlos Zapata's
They actually started constructing the tower and it will be completed in mid 2017. By the way, the tower's name initially was Mile-High Tower.
Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill have a pretty sweet racket going - build a super-tall building for an ego-manical client, find someone with a bigger ego who wants an even taller building, rinse, repeat. Architecturally, I think the building could be a lot worse. Its also nice to see something besides glass on a super tall skyscraper facade...
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