Kingdom Tower

Three-sided building is standing as high as 1,000 meters from the Arabian desert floor. The reflection of the sun makes red building in the morning and afternoon. During the day, the building changed to blue because it reflects the color of the sky.

Kingdom Tower will be the world's tallest tower when completed in 2016, defeating Tower Khalifa (Burj Khalifa) in Dubai.

The designer of this monumental building from a company owned by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill of Chicago. Construction area covers an area of ​​530 thousand square meters. Development funding comes from the pockets of Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a cousin of King Abdullah of U.S. $ 1.2 billion, or six times the cost of the Sunda Strait bridge construction.

Building itself beyond the reach of high-flying birds that migrate. Generally performed over a range of bird migration height of 150-600 meters. Only Burj Khalifa, as high as 828 meters, capable of rivaling the Kingdom Tower.

The design of the skyscraper tower is made smooth and elegant and inspired by the roll shoots on young plants that live in the desert. Shoots grow from the bottom as a whole, then split up when soaring in the sky. "It's a symbol of growth with technology," said architect Gordon Gill of buildings on its official website.

The bottom of the building supported by three legs gripping the ground, creating a stable structure of the vibration. This shape makes hundreds of floors above him as an ideal place to live.

At an altitude of hundreds of meters, wind speed becomes the main enemy of the tower because of its strength can shake a building. To create a form of aerodynamic structures, composed of buildings with three curved sides. This form works perfectly to break the power of the wind, thereby reducing the burden of building structures due to wind.

With the elevation reaches 1,000 meters, the tower requires a sophisticated elevator system to support the traffic residents and visitors. Therefore, the architect prepares 59 elevators, elevator consists of 54 single and 5 elevators tandem. This elevator will move at a speed of 10 meters per second at up or down. With this speed, a distance of one kilometer vertically can be reached in less than 2 minutes.

At 157 floors, there is a circular terrace that juts from the main building. The diameter of the observation deck is reached 30 meters and can be used by visitors to enjoy views of the desert and the Red Sea.

At the top of the tower, about 100 top floor is emptied to make room for alternative energy generators. It is estimated that space will be used to place a giant pendulum movement of the building as a silencer, which is used to imitate the concept of Taipei 101 tower. *** [ANTON WILLIAM | KORAN TEMPO 3617]