This is Jeddah Tower (Tallest Skyscraper Ever) 🤯

In today's video, we will be talking about the famed Jeddah Tower and why it Might NEVER Get Finished. Including intricate details about the expected skyscraper and how Saudi politics and the pandemic have postponed its construction to an unforeseeable future. Even the major financier was caught up in a corruption scandal that put building efforts on hold for three years!

Construction of Jeddah Tower began on April 1, 2013. But it took over a year to get things off the ground. Its massive foundation measures 10 feet in diameter and beats a standard football pitch in length. By September 2014, above-ground construction commenced.

Progress was going slowly but surely until Saudi was hit by a political crisis. In 2017, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman did an anti-corruption sweep to announce his rise to power. 11 Saudi princes got involved in this controversy, including Alwaleed bin Talal, the money guy for Jeddah Tower

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[frost]

*Shows the burj Kalifa*. Then says: “BUT the Jeddah tower will be taller!” *Proceeds to show the burj Kalifa again….*

[bmaybatrisyha]

"3000 years later"

"we are making a building huge as a planet"

[Yellow-zhpp]

Huh that's burj khalifa not jeddah tower

[zenthous]

I love that he didnt show a single picture of the correct building in this video

“jeddah tower”

my dumbass: hears “jenga tower”

[Scoobis]

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[mohammadmorshedahsan]

"One of the signs of the day of judgement is that people will compete with one another to see who can construct the biggest building"
(Sahih Bukhari, 7121)

[اريج-فب]

I live in Jeddah every week I see the tower getting longer it’s still getting built

[JackAnderson]

Well I don’t know why you said this because the burj khalifa is over a km tall

[claudiusmaximus]

Man this is crazy… im an intern engineer and yesterday for the first time climbed a tanker 28metre high and was already feeling a little nervous at the height when i was on top of the tank.. dont know what 800metres would feel like.. has to be unreal

[RonaldoGoat-clwy]

The fact that the video never had the tower pics 💀

[سعوديه-شل]

What do you mean by the clip? He has nothing to do with it, and then you see, there are many building towers like this, and the Emirates and Saudi Arabia are brothers, by the way, Jeddah Tower is better

[electroAM]

Yep and the Jeddah tower was supposed to be completed by 2020… they abandoned the project 5 years ago.

[NotUNEDTz]

People who don't know: this building became Michael Jackson 🙂

People who don't know : casoh jumped from here 😢

[patoyeyes]

If you want a taller one it's called the citadel (not an actual building)

[Cantpickafreakingname]

Saying burj khalifa is the tallest building in the world: shows the empire state building


Saying the jeddah tower will be the tallest skyscraper in the world: shows burj khalifa

[JamesBrock-yr]

After saudi. Malaysia made a new tower again 2.1 kilometres.

[garyjarvis]

Just because you can draw it doesn't mean you can, or should, build it. Tall buildings were an answer to a lack of ground space - a problem Saudi Arabia doesn't have.

[khairulf]

"They will compete with one another to build tallest building" hmm

[GRXY_FN]

So yk how when you stack those tiny wood blocks, or jenga up too high and they fall? What if...