December 17, 2025 | Dubai, UAE: The Jeddah Tower is already up to the 81st floor as of mid‑December 2025. It is an end-of-the-world school project run amok, with one floor coming up every three or four days until it is the campus landmark of the future. It was cancelled two years back, but it is now on its way to the top of the Burj Khalifa by 2028 and will be completed in a few years.
Bearing down on the Building Boom- The Jeddah Tower
The whole Jeddah Tower thing (formerly called Kingdom Tower) is over 250 meters tall, and its strong central core pulls it up while those flaring wings trail behind by like five to ten floors. The design team, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, informed us that they have already injected approximately fifty per cent of the concrete.
The work teams are literally working around the clock to maintain that pace. And, it halted in 2018 because of the labour differences, an anti-corruption campaign and the pandemic, but this time they are powering through with Saudi Binladin Group and a 7.2 billion riyal contract in their hands. They are pumping 911 with high-pressure pumps and using fancy cranes to continue the 911 boost.
When finished, Jeddah Tower will be over 1,000 meters, an extra 173 meters past the Burj Khalifa. It will include no less than 157 stories with a mixture of Four Seasons hotel between the 19th and 27th floors, offices, spiffy apartments, and luxury condos. They have 59 elevators, 5 of which are of the type of double elevators and 12 escalators.
People will be launched at 10 meters per second to a 644-meter observation deck in the elevators. The smooth, petal-shaped body of the building that resembles an exaggerated palm frond can cope with wind and structural stress better than a standard skyscraper.
It is filled in the base by 270 bored piles of concrete, 1.8 meters wide, and drilled 110 meters insane into the hard ground. Crisscrossed with those piles is a raft foundation that is five meters thick on which the entire building is situated. They have so far poured in half a million cubic meters of concrete and pumped out 80,000 tons of steel, making it one of the heaviest projects in terms of material.
Gordon Gill, an architect, indicates that the building continues to shake with the palm-frond feel that brought about the entire Kingdom of Saudi Arabia concept of development. The crew is working harder than ever, according to the partner Robert Forest, and the entire squad is focused in order to complete this great building.
Symbol of Vision 2030
Jeddah Tower is the crown jewel of the $20 billion Jeddah Economic City plan and lines up with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030—diversifying from oil, creating jobs, and turning Jeddah into a top tourist and business hotspot. It is a planned completion date in August 2028, which is in line with national mission goals.
When the work started again in January of 2025 for the Jeddah Tower, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Kingdom Holding Company appeared and emphasised how important this project is to the architectural aspirations of the country. It is a new competition in the region.
The super-tall push occurs as the international processes change. China, too, the king of skyline, has put on a height limit, and therefore, the Middle East countries have the opportunity to go tall with fewer red tape restrictions. Jeddah Tower isn’t just a building; it’s Saudi Arabia’s way to show the world it can compete on a global level. Since Dubai was in the limelight in 2010, following the construction of Burj Khalifa, the objective now is to provide Saudi Arabia with the same shine.
With the Jeddah Tower approaching the 100th storey, which is due by February 2026, the tower continues to make the skyline of Jeddah a new shape. Each new level causes debate at both the local and global levels, and images and reports go viral on social media. The rate of construction has already broken the previous record, and there is talk that the tower can even reach 135 stories by the year 2026, should the pace be maintained.
Overall, the Jeddah Tower project proves that, despite hook-ups before, Saudi Arabia’s still all‑in on building a structure that’ll stand as proof of human ingenuity and national ambition for generations.
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