The UK based company Foster and Partners has been announced as the winning architect for designing the World’s Tallest Building. According to quite a number of sources, the firm has been selected as the winner of a design completion that was kicked off at the end of the year 2022.
Other companies that were also a part of the design competition for the 2km-High Riyadh Sky-scrapper are:
- Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
- Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture
- Kohn Pedersen Fox
- Gensler
- 10Design
About Foster and Partners
The UK-based architectural firm Foster and Partners was founded in the year 1967 by Norman Foster. This company has a vast reputation and is considered as the global studio for architecture, urbanism and design; all these being rooted in the aspect of sustainability. The company has set a ground on offering its services at the international level and developed a reputation that is renowned globally. Additionally, Fosters and Partners is overseeing a major expansion project of the King Salman International Airport which is set to become the largest in the world upon completion. The company managed to emerge as a winner of the contest of the 57km square development in late 2022. They are currently working on a total of three airport projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
This proposed record-breaking World’s Tallest Building is set to be four times taller than the current tallest scheme of Foster and Partners, the JPMorgan Chase World Headquarters that is located at 270 Park Avenue in New York that has a height of 423 meters. The construction works of this building in New York are almost being completed.
Height of the Building
Upon completion, this tower is set to become the tallest in the world boasting a height that is twice of the world’s current tallest tower, the Burj Khalifa, which stands at 828 meters tall. The tallest building in the capital of Saudi is the 10-year-old PIF Tower that is located in King Abdullah Financial District. This building has a height of 385 meters and was designed by HOK and a local-based architecture and engineering company known as Omrania.
Construction Cost of the World’s Tallest Building
According to the contractors of the project, by pricing of the megatall towers in the region and depending on the final design of this upcoming building that they will come up with. The construction of the 2km-High Riyadh Sky-scrapper is expected to stand at approximately $5 billion.
This upcoming mega tower is going to be a part of an 18-square-kilometer (sq km) development located to the north of Riyadh.
Previously, the Public Insurance Fund had set up ambitious plans of setting up tall buildings in the region. The PIF was even considering the plans of constructing a tower that would have a height of up to 1.2 kilometers at King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) located on a plot known as KAFD X. The Consultants of the project were preparing the designs of this mega tower project in the year 2019.
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