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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[@Joshua88Graham]

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

[@TheB1M]

We've pinned you Josh and are gonna hold you to it 😂

[@aebel.shajan]

I'll help

[@catzzzz1450]

Next : 1300 likes to finish Creek Tower

[@gocool_2.0]

Where's the tower mate?

[@bababababababa6124]

Bro said “leave it to me”

[@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.

[@hb1338]

Not quite. It is commonplace to supply fittings and fixtures e.g lifts, electricity, water, sewage etc after the building has been built.

[@kentslocum]

@@hb1338 I suppose that's true. There's a local school district that used a bond measure to build a new high school. The estimated cost of construction left enough bond money left over to pay for the demolition of the old high school building. However, since they didn't pay for all construction materials up front, cost overruns ate up the entire budget and they don't have the money to demolish the old building. That means the city won't give the school district a credit on the system development cost of the new building, which only further raises the cost of the new building. If the money is raised for construction, why don't they stage materials nearby so that they don't have to worry about shortages and cost overruns?

[@tomikun8057]

@@hb1338 doesn't dubai not have sewage

[@isabellind1292]

If not for a student at Princeton U, doing her thesis on the "Citicorp" building/NYC and who discovered a design flaw in the building's construction, it could have very well toppled over under extreme wind conditions. They kept it a secret & brought construction crews in at night to make the building structurally safe. The City also had to come up w/a 10-sq. block evacuation plan in the event anything happened while they made the repairs to the building's structure.

[@firesurfer]

Too bad it doesn't have a purpose.

[@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.

[@Codraroll]

And that's where the developers of this tower stepped in the doodoo. The building sits on a big, empty plain several kilometers away from Jeddah proper, with squat all for amenities nearby. The developers got greedy and wanted to build a whole new city district for a million people, with Jeddah Tower as the centrepiece. However, there's far from enough demand to justify a city of a million people built from scratch there. But without that city, the tower stands too alone to be feasible.

[@DanielFenandes]

You don’t need a sewage system. See Burj Khalifa

[@frankerzed973]

Just have a traffic inducing fleet of trucks pumping out the shit

[@hobog]

​@@DanielFenandes 😂

[@AL-lh2ht]

@@DanielFenandes it’s been connected to a sewage system for a while now

[@davidhack2409]

Big props to the animation team behind this masterpiece 🙏🔥

[@Ottee2]

Yes, this is why we subscribe. That, and Fred's superlative voiceovers.

[@gordon1545]

@@Ottee2 THIS... is the biggest voiceover... in the WORLD.

[@DoubleMonoLR]

The animation team is "courtesy of Jeddah Economic Company" etc, as displayed on the video(albeit not very visibly) Likewise the sponsor Simscale provided the wind models, Jeddah Tower is also what they use as a demo on their website. Aside from webcam interviews, they seem to entirely(or almost) use footage and animations made by other people(including stock footage), as is common.

[@mnm5165]

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

[@bababababababa6124]

Facts

[@tombo416]

That’s if they even start construction

[@cldn2]

@@tombo416 They have.

[@buioso]

I agree, i think habitats on Moon and Mars are more likely to be built than these megaprojects in Saudi Arabia.

[@tombo416]

@@cldn2 oh god seriously?

[@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

[@d.b.cooper1]

Doesn't take much to cause issues tbh, Leeds has Birdgewater place building which is a mere 112m & caused havoc in terms of strong winds for years, eventually toppled a lorry which crushed a women on the street. All in the design.

[@Bryzerse]

@@d.b.cooper1 yeah absolutely, I've seen it at loads of buildings, but the Shard is the worst one I've been to and looks very similar to the Jeddah Tower. I imagine the Burj Khalifa on the other hand limits this thanks to all the breaks in its facades (though I've not been, just heard this from others).

[@Cloxxki]

Might a platform at circa 100 meters sticking out well all around the circumference isolate the wind effect to the ground level?

[@nadheem420]

It's not just the shape that contributes, unlike Burj, jeddah and creek tower, shard is surrounded by buildings funneling and adding strength if I am right

[@Bryzerse]

@@davidmayhew8083 I don't mean it in a negative way, I just imagine it might be a more serious concern at a tower three times the height, which is probably why they talked about wind in the video so much (and the sponsorship)

[@FrankBlaise73]

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. 👍🏻

[@nazmilao4273]

At best, it’s an avenue for real estate investment for the rich, and a PR move for the country; at its worst, it’s primarily a phallus measuring competition. That’s what I’ve learnt from watching so many of these videos 😅😂

[@yukyuk22]

Wait to you see NEOM - thats in Saudi Arabia as well - at $1 trillion dollars and 170 km long..!

[@pukovnikklefeld]

Burj Khalifa is actually among the most stupid buildings out there. The waste from the sewage in the building has to be transported by trucks every day because it's not connected anywhere. And that's just one of the massive flaws of the building. Skyscrapers are nothing but dick measuring contests of various shithole countries. In Zagreb there is a massive communist block building, called the Mamutica. If you build a few of those in an area equal to the base of Burj Khalifa, you'd actually end up with more usable floor space and have an all around much more practical building complex.

[@bbbbbb3734]

​@@yukyuk22 And infinitely dumber than any of these skyscrapers so far. Adam something has made some great videos about these building projects.

[@d.b.cooper1]

True but if you look at the super mega skyscrapers most are/will be successes simply with residential offerings alone. Look back at countless documentaries during burj Khalifa's build & criticism & compare it to now, transformed the whole wider area & put it on the map. other super ones in Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai & Makkah Saudia Arabia are hardly white elephants, there's demand same reason NYC eeks out slim skyscrapers still

[@HeisenbergFam]

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

[@jsdp]

I have seen you comment on quite a few videos the last few days lol. ++

[@veldmuis8181]

yo mr white

[@AwesomeDwarves]

This is the moment Walter White became the world's tallest skyscraper.

[@BPJJohn]

Could sell some of your stuff to get some of the Workers pepped up again?

[@SmokeyPyro]

Props to the engineers, thats for sure, but i kind of despise these things Especially since its alot of slave labour and money spending on things, just to be the record holder Why not spend these surreal amounts of money on things that actually better mankind

[@abdulwasey3506]

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.

[@nareshwildbones]

like the saying goes, architects are engineer's worst nightmares

[@RobitGalaxy]

Same. I started watching that project when I was 7 yo and now im 17.

[@Anonymous-jf2gy]

@@RobitGalaxy same. I used to watch all those “world’s tallest buildings” sort of videos that had BS concept buildings like X Seed 4000 but I legitimately thought Jeddah Tower would have been completed. Same for the India Tower, which was supposed to be the second tallest building.

[@anandsharma7430]

politics is the enemy of tall pics

[@touringthecitywalking9209]

Wait till your age becomes 30, 40, or even 50 before you know, these crazy Royals will gonna start demolishing whatever they already finish building lol!

[@Mr_James777]

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

[@yannisstath]

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

[@Evrything2O23]

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

[@GeekyMedia]

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

[@pukovnikklefeld]

How is that saying anything? Like, who even are you that your opinion would matter?

[@GeekyMedia]

@@pukovnikklefeld lol calm down. I'm showing them love. And The B1M liked my comment... sooooo....

[@JagedNS]

@@pukovnikklefeld Why actually type the word "like" in your comment?

[@pukovnikklefeld]

@@JagedNS Why type the word "actually" in your comment?

[@JagedNS]

@@pukovnikklefeld Like, I thought it important. Like, maybe it wasn't. Like....

[@leoc544]

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.

[@tracyannbanks123_12]

That’s it I’m stepping in, was overcompensating as best.

[@tracyannbanks123_12]

I’d love to know you better, thats only if you dont mind cos you seems to be a nice person and sound so lovely with your words

[@ShawnLamont1997]

The return of the Jeddah is finally happening 😂

[@Lolopogie]

4 months later and now the construction restarts. I live near the area.

[@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

[@Predators--cz2fb]

They are starting the project up again.

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

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

[@samjohn7501]

They started it again

[@kira33kira]

I’m glad that this is not abandoned ❤

[@654jimbob654]

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.

[@pacldawson]

I was going to drone on and on about how well this video addresses its title premise, but I won’t bore you with a long missive. Let me simply say: is episode of The B1M is top-notch, and thank you as always for this growing body of excellent videos.

[@neondemon5137]

As if it's not hot enough already, they're building closer to the sun.... galaxy brain move.

[@Lad7478]

I love all your videos 👍 As an AvGeek aviation is my thing. However as a New Yorker I love tall buildings ever since I was a kid. Growing up The Twin Towers were my favorite in NYC. However I’m fascinated by other mega towers worldwide. I lived in Jedda during the 90’s when I was working as a flight attendant and would move back Jedda in a second if they start to complete these buildings. I remember in the 90’s you could have picked up places for relativity cheap. Now you can’t touch those properties. I’d love to get in before it becomes the new Dubai as I missed that boat. Jedda is a great city with amazing beaches and would be a great investment property. Crime is slim to none clean lots of fun as long as you respect their culture when in public. We’d say daily “another beautiful day in the Kingdom” 🇸🇦 I had great friends there and it was so nice living there thanks to them. Hope they continue building cause I’d come and buy a place on the beautiful Red Sea some of the best water in the world 🌍 Hope they don’t let this project go under. This will put them on the map and make Jedda a great destination to visit and life. Great job on another video. I really enjoy them 🙏👍

[@ArtiePenguin1]

A great video and this has got to be one of the greatest sponsor integrations ever. I like that you completely incorporated it into the video and kept it on the same topic. Keep up the great work!

[@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

[@visual_chris]

Man I fucking love B1M videos, such a great watch every single time

[@Hopefull316]

I got to admit, how calmly he stated that the tower reached the height of the Chrysler building before halting made me chuckle. It's just so mind boggling to think about it. They could legit call it there, finish it up and it would still be massive.

[@lavalamp6410]

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.

[@sc1338]

That’s so embarrassing 😂, anytime anyone brags about Dubai I think about how fake that city is. once oil drys up there I really don’t think anyone will want to live there. just my opinion

[@Floccinaucinihilipilificator]

A sewage system? Whats that? Anyways, so the pods for the space elevator will be available in the main entrance hall.

[@thelazy0ne]

Waste water dropping from 1 km hight will create the, soon to be famous, *Sewage Gaisers® of Arabia* 😁👌

[@underarmbowlingincidentof1981]

@@sc1338 yeah. its just vanity project after vanity project. The fact they are building giant skyscrapers in a place with such a low density and so much space is mind boggeling. They could use the money for amazing arabian palaces, modern marvels, wonders of the persian gulf but instead its just western looking skyscraper next to western looking skyscraper built by slave forces ... boring

[@hb1338]

@@sc1338 I don't think anyone wants to live there, with or without oil.

[@petalmouth]

always glad to see another b1m video heehee

[@megaminerdl]

High quality productions as always 👍

[@Livlifetaistdeth]

I'm just glad they're starting other huge projects before finishing this one...cause that's how to project competence to the world.

[@tracyannbanks123_12]

That’s it I’m stepping in, was overcompensating as best.

[@tracyannbanks123_12]

I’d love to know you better, thats only if you dont mind cos you seems to be a nice person and sound so lovely with your words

[@nomercynodragonforyou9688]

@@tracyannbanks123_12 cringe

[@RishabhTatiraju]

I like how the sponsor actually adds real value to the content of the video. As always, amazing!

[@onethreeseventhree]

love when sponsors go seamlessly with the video, good stuff

[@AnimilesYT]

Skyscrapers like this deserve their own dedicated train and/or metro station

[@rutgerb]

Lets start with a sewer

[@Ong.s_Jukebox]

@Gabriel really? Why, though?

[@silverXnoise]

@@Ong.s_JukeboxTraffic to/from the Burj Khalifa is primarily shit trucks.

[@silverXnoise]

It’s the crown shit jewel of the shit joke that is Dubai. Jedda is no better.

[@Ong.s_Jukebox]

@@silverXnoise You mean, they have no way of connecting to the main sewage system because of, vehicles? Then, where do all those poops go then? Won't the whole building smell like new york city?

[@MaidenHell1977]

The buttress/triangle/Y shape design has been with great success such as Toronto's CN Tower which honestly I'm surprised wasn't referenced. Anyhow great video, I hope those towers get built.

[@hobog]

Surprised here too, but fr, CN tower's Y limbs don't have rooms inside them

[@MaidenHell1977]

@@caseypenk not anymore but until Burj was built, it was the world's tallest free standing structure for 32 years. We'll see if BK can hang on to that record for that long. The basic principal behind the construction is what matters.

[@MaidenHell1977]

@@hobog doesn't have to have rooms, it's the basic principles behind the design and construction.

[@phdnk]

Jeddah tower now competes with The Pyongyangs Ryugyong Hotel to the place of the tallest unfinished tower.

[@Sashazur]

At least the Ryugyong reached its full height and looks complete from outside.

[@5amH45lam]

I doff my hat at the finesse in which you inserted the sponsors segment. Bravo, sir! 👍

[@ashbackward]

1) Love the channel. 2) Your friend in the orange pants that helps (I always forget names) is 🔥🔥🔥. 3) I do understand clearing up some of the land around some before doing more work, but it does seem like most of these vids are mostly tree trimming/cutting. Seems beyond necessary for this stage? When will you focus more on the structure?

[@notpurple]

excellent job working in the sponsor and making it extremely interesting. the demos were awesome

[@mrslagowhoreusrex6300]

always find it silly how these places have so much land both buildable in the ocean & desert yet they choose to only built mega tall towers than have barrenness all around they have never heard of mixed usage mid rise towers I presume

[@WolfSeril107]

It's just a gimmick to attract tourism and financial services. They aren't trying to build a nice place to live, they're trying to build a nice place for billionaires to invest their money.

[@MrPaytonw34]

Excellent video! Very well done!

[@bn8ws]

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

[@nopers2223322]

Vanity

[@pacmanc8103]

Jeddah is a place with low population density? You’ve never been there.

[@carboy101]

Nah

[@sdrrshock5594]

Dick waving competition

[@stim90]

I think they should just fit it out as a stub and complete the building with no additional floors (other than what is needed for the roof). It would still look good imo.

[@jackparsons3136]

Perfect video as always, best channel to watch before bed ❤

[@masudidrissisa4240]

Let's take a moment to appreciate the level of good production value the B1M.

[@AnimilesYT]

I think at this point it would be better to keep the tower at its current height and finish things off. It'd be a waste of effort (and concrete) if that already huge tower would just wither away until it has to be torn down. Yes, the project would be a failure and the stump would remind everyone of said failure. But at the same time it is a good reminder that corruption doesn't pay off, that we can make the best of a bad situation, that a failure won't stop us from doing amazing things and that valuable lessons can be learned from those failures.

[@hb1338]

What lessons can anyone learn from the failure of the Jeddah tower ?

[@Bilal_is_joking]

​@@hb1338 Learn how to say UwU

[@makarovtm9835]

No They will finish it soon

[@Dkliptus]

@@hb1338 Don’t build stupid things?

[@3b0d1999]

it is in the middle of nowhere. Only with its completed form will they build an entire city around it. completing it at its current state in meaningless.

[@myusernameizgud1722]

i can confirm that kone would have the elavators in the jeddah tower. my dad works for the company and he told me multiple times its gonna use ultrarope.

[@myusernameizgud1722]

@Zigest he isn't working on that project specifically

[@figlexgonzalez3115]

I visited the Burj Khalifa last year and every time I look at the pictures and videos I took - it still blows my mind… I can’t even imagine seeing a 1KM building…. My brain would crash 😦

[@thomaspreudhomme9443]

This is the kind of sponsor that makes sense on B1M videos

[@oFaisalo]

Actually 4 months after this video a 20+ company’s started to continue building Jeddah tower 😅

[@jaminlloyd]

Great way of working the ad into the content. Was happy to watch instead skipping as it was relevant and interesting.

[@SaturnCanuck]

So cool. Hey the CN Tower used that hexagonal core too. In 1973!

[@louisstanko86]

Love how you incorporate the sponsor into your videos, very well done and another top notch video 😊

[@AuwaluMuhammad-nx8ge]

What a great video,i like it and i would like to visits this tallest tower one day.

[@rahulshivaram1510]

Do you think they realised around the 300m mark that the tower foundations may not have been up-to spec for the full load?

[@GazMoby]

Very enjoyable as usual 👍

[@MissouriMatt54]

Thank you for the video.

[@mogammadabrahams3332]

Brilliant video👍🏼

[@Avishek85]

Another top notch video by the B1M team! 👏🏼

[@TheB1M]

Thank you so much!

[@Goldenah]

As a kid walking around Manhattan, the wind gusts would be so strong it felt like I would be swept away. Few of my umbrellas survived intact.

[@swoondrones]

I design urban plans around triangles, with exploded nodes. It makes sense with traffic to do this, too.

[@Dr_Larken]

So this is basically software for fluid dynamics! I love it

[@Techstriker1]

Makes me wonder how many archeology sites where we think some big structure used to be was actually just a foundation for a project no one ever completed or bothered to tear down.

[@zapfanzapfan]

The stub looks a bit like that concrete hull that sat in Pyongyang for many years that they now have finally clad in glass.

[@MayuriK_it]

I think that the design of this skyscraper is really cool: I hope the works can be restarted!

[@bibekdas5595]

Brother your video is the best

[@johncamp2567]

The footprint of this structure is remarkably similar to the CN TOWER in Toronto, Canada, with a hexagonal core and three out-rigger bases. (…drawings were very StarWars-like!)

[@dcaseng]

They could just change the plans to accommodate a hundred stories, salvaging it's usage and saving money. Sure, it won't be the tallest building in the world, but it's better than completely abandoning all the work that was done to this point.

[@bibekdas5595]

Love you bro

[@maajidmansoor4833]

Just in process for completion of the project. The discussion taken place today

[@rohankore3504]

It's all about ego why not just drop the height by 300m and become the 2nd tallest building in the world and finish the project and then hope that others will also join developing the surrounding area just like downtown Dubai with jeddhah tower as center piece of overall development

[@rohankore3504]

@@malachaicarter4338 dropping by 300m meant 700m building

[@oleksandrpatriyuk6813]

Great job Fred + team, 💪

[@TheB1M]

Thank you so much!!

[@firefox5926]

10:47 see what you really want it to have like a solar updraft tower in the centre of it and then have the first few floors be like a green house and then build up the sides of the tower

[@geoffreylee5199]

The same design technique used on the CN Tower in Toronto.

[@paolofusco7940]

this sets a very good precedent for the Line..

[@carboy101]

😂😂😂

[@lil----lil]

Today's Lesson: How to waste money on useless projects that A: No one cares. and B: In the middle of nowhere & C: Shows extremely poor judgement. :D

[@kayv.d.4656]

Just put a roof on what is already built, make it affordable housing and call it a day haha 😅

[@Itsmarkyoung]

The video I’ve been waiting for! Been wondering about this for years

[@MattTee1975]

"Adrian Smith. If his name sounds familiar to you, it's because..... HE'S ONE OF THE GUITARISTS FOR IRON MAIDEN!" \m/

[@Merennulli]

The US needs to follow this up with a 1,609 meter tall building just to taunt all the metric people out there. 😄

[@10tothe10088]

Appreciate the sponsorship from a company relevant to the video, it increased the informativeness and highlighted a cool aspect that wouldn't have been obvious otherwise (wind speed at ground level)!

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

Can't say I like this kind of spike-looking tower vs. more solid ones, but it's good to aspire upward with architecture.

[@inyobill]

in order to achieve the desired hight, sever tapering is pretty much required.

[@datswassup07]

They’re better off just redoing the whole thing because it’s been sitting there for years exposed to the elements and that’s a safely hazard. It’s aged in the last 3 years and quite honestly I feel like the burj Khalifa is so popular, I dont think this building will have the same hype

[@hb1338]

Has any tall building (say >100 metres) ever failed for technical reasons ? It does seem like the architects and engineers always get it right - with good reason !

[@OneHalfSaint]

Much better sponsor this week than the creeps at Masterworks. Good to see.

[@EternamDoov]

"enter Adrian Smith" That's the most generic name "if he sounds familiar it's because..." Lol

[@jfmezei]

Considering the energy required to pump water up to the top, am curious if it would be possible to build turbines to recapture kinetic energy of waste water falling back down.

[@jaunedroite]

Are they any links between the Jeddah project and the Line/Neom? The video says briefly one is private (Jeddah) and the other publicly funded, but I imagine in a country like Saudi Arabia there must be some links between the people, their money etc. At the very least the Saudi government approved all of those plans.

[@Codraroll]

On the other hand, the government is not likely to step in and save Jeddah Tower, because they'd rather want all the attention to their own pet projects in Neom.

[@pacmanc8103]

@@Codraroll The government already owns Jeddah Tower, I believe. It was private until 2019.

[@salmanadnan]

​​​@@pacmanc8103 Jeddah tower is 33.3% owned by King holding Co In 2019 PIF bought 16.86% of King Holding Co PIF ( Public investment fund) is owned by government

[@specialforces67]

Well, here is some good news. I read today that work has been resumed recently to complete the twoer after it had been stalled for a long time. There is a contract bidding process initiated a few days ago to giant companies (including Samsung who built Burj Khalifa). But still waiting for the winner of the contract...

[@randallhill7979]

Great video 👍

[@skyscraperfan]

Money actually is not the issue here. Most of the work had already been done. It may only have reached a small fraction of its height, but more than half of its volume and mass. It would probably only cost about $500 million to complete and that is not a problem for Prince Al-Waleed, who still own his own Airbus A380 and a superyacht. Selling both would be enough to pay for the bill. The problem is the Saudi crown prince, who does not want any attention shifted away from Neom.

[@nadheem420]

Comparing insane, absurd and stupid project like neom and cube thingy to a tower just taller than Burj khalifa is never gonna happen. Neom is possible............. then I saw the new plan

[@TheHennes36]

Such an amazing project - fingers crossed they will start again and finish this building. To me it’s especially that 1KM mark that makes it soo impressive! Think about it - it would be one KILOmeter into the sky - absolutely insane!!

[@terraconz]

Imho thats just stupid and unnecassary.

[@skyhappy]

@TheHennes Bro are you 10? Your comment sounds so naive and cringe

[@reddwarfer999]

What wasn't mentioned in this video is that the original Kingdom Tower was intended to be one *mile* high.

[@reddwarfer999]

@@terraconz Rather like your reply.

[@nomercynodragonforyou9688]

@@reddwarfer999 cope

[@johnandrews6927]

One of my favourite KZbin channels because it reveals extraordinary and informative detail. But … advertisements are intrusive - efforts to integrate them unfortunately, for me, make them even move obvious. Of course you need to advertise to survive, but they appear overly conspicuous.

[@AlessioSangalli]

Yes the name Adrian Smith sounds very familiar. I didn't known that besides being a famous guitarist he'd also moonshine as an architect

[@moosefactory133]

I would like to see the Jeddah Tower completed. It would be such a incredible engineering accomplishment.

[@robytherobotwhiteversion]

Same

[@limbeboy7]

Lol when he said an Architect designed it that's all I needed to know. 😂 us engineers spent almost a decade in school studying physics, mechanics, and fluid mechanics yet these Architects think they know a thing about design

[@f_no8]

They continued the instruction a week ago

[@romanwalenciak7849]

Dziękujemy.