{"id":80774,"date":"2014-04-18T19:31:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=80774"},"modified":"2014-04-18T19:31:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:31:46","slug":"dubai-long-champion-of-all-things-biggest-longest-and-most-expensive-will-soon-have-some-competition-from-neighboring-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=80774","title":{"rendered":"Dubai &#8212; long champion of all things biggest, longest and most expensive &#8212; will soon have some competition from neighboring Saudi Arabia."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/saudi-freedom-tower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-80769\" alt=\"\u054d\u0561\u0578\u0582\u0564\u0575\u0561\u0576 \u0531\u0580\u0561\u0562\u056b\u0561, \u0561\u0574\u0565\u0576\u0561\u0562\u0561\u0580\u0571\u0580 \u0565\u0580\u056f\u0576\u0561\u0584\u0565\u0580\u0568\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/saudi-freedom-tower.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/saudi-freedom-tower.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/saudi-freedom-tower-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/saudi-freedom-tower-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Saudi Arabia to build world&#8217;s tallest tower that will reach one kilometer into the sky<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dubai&#8217;s iconic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burjkhalifa.ae\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burj Khalifa <\/a>&#8212; the world&#8217;s tallest building &#8212; could be stripped of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guinness<\/a> title if Saudi Arabia succeeds in its plans to construct the even larger Kingdom Tower in Jeddah &#8212; a prospect looking more likely as work begins next week, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionweekonline.com\/article-27273-building-worlds-tallest-tower-to-start-in-april\/#.U0_vC_ldW6V\" target=\"_blank\">Construction Weekly.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Consultants<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acts-int.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Advanced Construction Technology Services<\/a> (ACTS) have recently announced testing materials to build the 3,280-feet (one kilometer) skyscraper (the Burj Khalifa, by comparison, stands at a meeker 2,716-feet, or 827 meters).<\/p>\n<p>The Kingdom Tower, estimated to cost $1.23 billion, would have 200 floors and overlook the Red Sea. Building it will require about 5.7 million square-feet of concrete, and 80,000 tons of steel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saudigazette.com.sa\/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&amp;contentid=20140218196138\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Saudi Gazette<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia to build world&#8217;s tallest tower that will reach one kilometer into the sky&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":80769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,137],"tags":[1375,9348,3702],"class_list":["post-80774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world","tag-dubai","tag-long-champion","tag-saudi-arabia","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}