{"id":152506,"date":"2022-12-11T23:23:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T05:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/saudi-arabia-plans-2km-long-worlds-tallest-tower-more-than-double-the-size-of-burj-khalifa"},"modified":"2022-12-11T23:23:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T05:23:54","slug":"saudi-arabia-plans-2km-long-worlds-tallest-tower-more-than-double-the-size-of-burj-khalifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/saudi-arabia-plans-2km-long-worlds-tallest-tower-more-than-double-the-size-of-burj-khalifa","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia \u2018plans\u2019 2km long world\u2019s tallest tower, more than double the size of Burj Khalifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/saudi-arabia-plans-2km-long-worlds-tallest-tower-more-than-double-the-size-of-burj-khalifa2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A close-door \u201cdesign competition\u201d with selected global construction companies is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia may be weighing in on plans for a 2-kilometer-tall, world\u2019s tallest tower, for its 18-square-kilometer master-planned area in the capital city of Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContractors that have priced megatall towers in the region say that depending on the final design, a 2km-tall structure could cost about $5bn to construct,\u201d said the report.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dblight\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed skyscraper will be more than twice as tall as Dubai\u2019s Burj Khalifa, which stands at 828 meters and is currently the tallest building in the world, according to a report published by Middle East business intelligence (MEED) magazine on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A close-door \u201cdesign competition\u201d with selected global construction companies is underway. Saudi Arabia may be weighing in on plans for a 2-kilometer-tall, world\u2019s tallest tower, for its 18-square-kilometer master-planned area in the capital city of Riyadh. \u201cContractors that have priced megatall towers in the region say that depending on the final design, a 2km-tall structure [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}