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Bin Laden Group to build world's tallest tower
Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding has hired Saudi Bin Laden Group to build the world's tallest skyscraper in Jeddah, Gulfnews.com reports.
Jeddah Tower will be 1,000 meters (3,281 feet) tall and will contain a Four Seasons luxury hotel, apartments, condominiums and offices that overlook the Red Sea, Financial Times reported.
Kingdom Holding is paying Bin Laden Group, one of the world's largest construction companies, about $1.2 billion to take on the five-year project, according to Financial Times.
Saudi Bin Laden Group was founded in 1931 by Muhammad Awad bin Laden, the billionaire father of terrorist Osama bin Laden. It built much of Saudi Arabia's highways and infrastructure, as well as entire districts and cities.
The company constructed additions to the Muslim nation's two holiest mosques in Mecca and Medina. It operates throughout the Middle East and was chosen in 1964 to reclad the golden Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem.
Over the years, Saudi Bin Laden Group has expanded into a conglomerate that includes engineering, manufacturing and telecommunications, according to business analysis site Hoovers.com.
Osama bin Laden, the 17th of 52 children, inherited part of his father's fortune, but his radical activities led the family to disown him in 1994.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, announced the tower building contract Tuesday. He owns 95% of Kingdom Holding, according to Financial Times.
When completed, Jeddah Tower will easily surpass Dubai's 828-meter (2,717-foot) Burj Khalifa as the world's tallest building.
The Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture designed the project and will oversee its development, Gulfnews.com reported. Adrian Smith was one of Burj Khalifa's designers when he was with Skidmore Owings and Merrill.
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This is an ammazing feat. I read about it while it was still in the plannig stages many years ago. Fortunatley Osoma has (had) nothing to do with it, it's his father. This building is to be about about a mile square. As I remember: there will even be strees in it to drive cars. And as somebody said, I think it is about the prestige of having the tallest building in the world; building a city would be cheaper.
Its for the 72 virgins when they die....lol
Send Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture a nastygram.
Why? Because he's a famous architect and you're a nobody who's never been asked to do anything but move out of the way?
Would it be wrong to say someone should knock it the F@#k down after it's built?
then afterwards celebrate its destruction worldwide? remember how happy every muslim was happy when they learned the WTC collapsed? i do.
I was just about to say it, actually... something to the tune of "Makes me want to get a pilots license" or something similar...
Yep I remember that. Bunch of Ass Clowns!
yes it would be wrong.
Only Muslim extremists were happy. Not the Muslim population in general but that's probably not what Fox News wanted you to know.
Funny headline get attention.... Osama Bin Laden was ex-communicated by his family a loooooonnng time ago... They wanted nothing to do with his madness..
So they say....
And all I would ask for is a puny $10 million to make my remaining years tolerable. Ah, to be rich!
It seems to me, that having the World's tallest Building only invites terrorists to bring it down. I certainly would not want to reside or work in that tower, for that reason.
Bin Laden Group?
Has the same ring as Hitler Group
There were a huge group when Osama was only a little terorrist in diapers, they are kind of stuck with the name.
Just wait, someone will crash a camel into the Bin Laden Tower.
Great, this will give us something to bomb.
I predict a giant ass shaped meteor will land on it, once built.
...while they continue to kill their own people
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth!
I love Autumn's phrase, "developing country."
I prefer 'infestation'.
Saudi's are the biggest Snakes of the world!!
@Flo, great idea. Lets spam those two with even more crap than they throw on us.