Jeddah Tower: How to Finish the World's Tallest Building

Will Saudi Arabia's Jeddah Tower ever rise 1 kilometre above the desert?

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[JoshuaGraham]

If this comment gets 1, 000 likes, I will personally fly to Jeddah and finish this skyscraper myself.

[kentslocum]

I think the reason I'm always so fascinated by skyscrapers that get canceled after beginning vertical construction is that most of the work has already been done--permitting, design, planning, ground preparation, infrastructure, equipment rental, contracting, and foundation work. In the grand scheme of things, building the visible portion of the tower is simply the final step.

[mnm]

This is exactly how the line and the makaab will end up

[RubmaLione]

That’s still less than the cost of the WTC transportation hub (Oculus). The cost of completing this tower isn’t the issue here, it’s the complexity of actually building the entire city around it. Remember, you can’t just build a tower in the middle of nowhere, you need a thriving neighborhood (and functional sewage system) to make it livable.

[davidhack]

Big props to the animation team behind this masterpiece 🙏🔥

[abdulwasey]

This construction project is so nostalgic to me, I've been obsessed with the design of this tower since 2013 when I was just a 10 year old kid and now I am a 20 year old. It's so sad to see this tower still unfinished and probably abandoned.

[Bryzerse]

The Shard has a very similar shape to this building and has powerful winds at the bottom sometimes, so I imagine a building three times the height could be pretty bad

[HeisenbergFam]

Props to the engineers working on this project, takes a lot of planning, effort and patience to make this possible

[jimbob]

I went to the open-air observation deck on top the Shibuya Scramble Square building in Tokyo last year. It's 229 metres and it was incredibly windy up there, like "I feel like I'm about to be blown off the side" levels of windy. I couldn't imagine a similar deck at FOUR TIMES that height.

[leoc]

When you made your video about the unoccupied supertalls in NY I wrote a big comment saying how much of a step forward that video was to your (already high quality) videos, with the interviews, the data, the background context building and everything else. Then today it hit me how easily I’ve forgotten about that and got used to this much upgraded format. The compliments not only remain well deserved but I also must renew them based on how well you consolidated this format and how exceptional is your channel’s quality on production and information. Thank you for that and I hope this channel may bring you more opportunities and success. You deserve every gram of it.

[FrankBlaise]

I personally think that super tall skyscrapers are a proverbial “white elephant” vanity project if there is hardly any population densities that would be a requirement to meet such a demand for it. Anyway, great work and research as always. 👍🏻

[yannisstath]

B1M is like a good friend that turns up when you need them most

[Mr_James]

Let's take a moment to appreciate the level of production value B1M offers. Impressive every time!

[GeekyMedia]

Possibly one of my favourite B1M videos in recent months... and that's saying something considering the crazy good quality

[JP_TaVeryMuch]

(09:30) "pour concrete above the clouds" ~ quite the poet Fred and with such a mundane material. Bravo

[Ikhouja]

As a Resident of this beautiful City Jeddah and basically the tower is 15 minutes away from my home there’re good news
1-Electrical Substation for the tower is completed
2-Some infrastructure work is ongoing
3-The lake will be replaced by a canal
And most important thing
4-The construction (hopefully) will resume in 2024
JEC Has sent a bidding to 14 contractors around the world to send their bids in 3 months.
So we will see this miracle soon

[bnws]

Is there any practical reason why such a high density building is needed in a place with such a low population density?

[EvrythingO]

Guy's new update: Jiddah Tower, also known as Kingdom Tower, the construction was begun 2 weeks ago !

[lavalamp]

I'm wondering if the sewage system will be hooked up if it is completed or if there will be lines of tanker trucks lining up outside every morning.

[gtrfreak]

I had done some research on this project a year ago and it’s a treat to have one of my favorite channels feature it in a video