Saudi Arabia resumes construction on the Jeddah Tower, aiming to surpass the Burj Khalifa as the tallest building in the ...

Indeed, the Jeddah Tower will dwarf the competition. To date, the Burj Khalifa, located in neighboring Dubai, is the tallest building on Earth. It stands 827 meters (2,716 feet).

Saudi Arabia's Jeddah Tower is expected to surpass Dubai's Burj Khalifa as the world's tallest structurer with height exceeding 1000 metres.

The Jeddah Tower will measure 3,280 feet when it’s completed in 2018. It’ll be the tallest tower in the world and dwarf the current record holder, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa.

The Burj Khalifa, by comparison, stands at 2,716 feet. New York City’s Freedom Tower, currently the fifth tallest in the world, is dwarf-like at 1,792 feet. (Jeddah Economic Company) ...

When the 3,280-feet-tall (1,000-meter-tall) Jeddah Tower, in Saudi Arabia, opens in 2020, it will knock Dubai’s iconic Burj Khalifa off its throne as the tallest skyscraper in the world by 236 ...

This tower will also be 568 feet taller than Burj Khalifa, an immense skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, currently the tallest in the world, according to the architecture firm Adrian Smith ...

That means the Burj Khalifa’s reign as the tallest building in the world should last almost two decades, if not more. The Jeddah Tower as it appeared in 2021, following a long pause in construction ...

The viewing tower will cost around $1 billion and will be “a notch” taller than Burj Khalifa, Emaar chairman Mohamed Alabbar told reporters as he revealed details of the project.

Emaar Properties, the developer behind Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, plans to build a $1 billion tower that will be “a notch taller” than the iconic structure, breaking its own world record.