As for London, the Shard's 72nd-floor lookout is a measly 32nd on the list.
The tower was designed by Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. It can hold up to 2,000 people at a time.īefore these four new buildings, Toronto's CN Tower, built in 1976, held the long-standing record for highest platform. With a structure that evokes a bundle of leaves shooting up from the ground, the Kingdom Jeddah Tower will surpass by nearly 200 metres the Burj Khalifa, which has held the title as the world’s tallest free-standing structure since it opened in Dubai in 2010. The Tokyo Skytree, the world's second-tallest structure after the Burj Khalifa, has the fourth-highest deck at 1,480 ft. With a top floor at 1.555 ft, the Shanghai World Financial Centre allows visitors to stand on a glass platform and look down on the viewing deck and city below. The ascent includes the world's longest spiral staircase and a horizontal "bubble tram", which rotates around the building. The current holder of the title world's tallest building, the 2,722ft-high Burj Khalifa in Dubai, has a viewing platform at 1,821ft that opened to the public last year.Īnother observation tower to open recently was the One World platform in New York, offering a completely new view of the city's famous skyline.Ĭontaining 200 floors, the Jeddah Tower will be one kilometre high.īefore the Burj Khalifa, the open-air deck on China's Canton Tower, which opened in Guangzhou in 2011, held the record for world's highest at 1,601 ft. "With this deal, we will reach new, as yet unheard of highs in real estate development," said Mounib Hammoud, chief executive officer of Jeddah Economic Company, the owner and developer of the Jeddah Economic City project, "and will fulfil the company's objective of creating a world-class urban centre that offers an advanced lifestyle, so that Jeddah may have a new iconic landmark that attracts people from all walks of society with comprehensive services and a multitude of uses." It is supposed to be the worlds first 1 km (3,281 feet ) high building, and the centrepiece and first phase of a development and tourist attraction called Jeddah Economic City.There was steady progress but in January 2018 building owner JEC halted structural concrete work together with the tower about one-third completed because of labour. Work has already begun up to the 26th floor of the tower, located in Obhur, just north of Jeddah, on the Red Sea coast, but the finished building will have 200 floors.
One of the tower's proposed outdoor terraces. This will include offices, a 200-room Four Seasons Hotel, 121 serviced apartments and 360 residential apartments. The Kingdom Tower, as it is also known, will accommodate the world's highest observatory and be a mixed-use building with a gross floor area of 245,000 square metres.
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