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Jeddah Tower or Burj Jeddah (برج جدة), previously known as Kingdom Tower (برج المملكة), is a skyscraper construction project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.[1]

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Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi (أَبُو ظَبِي) is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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Adrian Smith (architect)

Adrian D. Smith (born August 19, 1944) is an American architect.

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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG), an architecture firm and design firm based in Chicago, is engaged in the design and development of energy-efficient and sustainable architecture.

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Al Bawaba

Al Bawaba (lit) is a news, blogging and media website headquartered in Amman, Jordan with an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Al Olaya (Riyadh)

Al-Olaya (al-ʿulāyā), alternatively transliterated as al-Ulaya, is the central business district of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located mostly in the sub-municipality of its namesake, al-Ulaya, and partially in al-Malaz and al-Ma'dher.

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Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud

Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud (الوليد بن طلال آل سعود; born 7 March 1955) is a Saudi Arabian billionaire businessman, investor, philanthropist, and royal member of the House of Saud.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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Arabian Business

Arabian Business (AB) is a weekly business magazine published in Dubai and focusing on global and regional news analysis.

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ArchDaily

ArchDaily is a website covering architectural news, projects, products, events, interviews and competitions, opinion pieces, among others, catering to architects, designers and other interested parties.

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Arcology

Arcology, a portmanteau of "architecture" and "ecology",.

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Bahrain

Bahrain (Two Seas, locally), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia.

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Bechtel

Bechtel Corporation is an American engineering, procurement, construction, and project management company founded in San Francisco, California in 1898, and headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

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Bedrock

In geology, bedrock is solid rock that lies under loose material (regolith) within the crust of Earth or another terrestrial planet.

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Besix

BESIX Group is a Belgian construction group based in Brussels, one of the world's leading international contractors according to the ENR ranking.

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Building code

A building code (also building control or building regulations) is a set of rules that specify the standards for construction objects such as buildings and non-building structures.

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Burj Khalifa

The Burj Khalifa (known as the Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration) is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Jeddah Tower and Burj Khalifa are neo-futurist architecture.

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Business Insider

Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.

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Buttressed core

Buttressed core is a structural system for high buildings, consisting of a hexagonal core reinforced by three buttresses that form a Y shape.

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A carbon footprint (or greenhouse gas footprint) is a calculated value or index that makes it possible to compare the total amount of greenhouse gases that an activity, product, company or country adds to the atmosphere.

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CBRE Group

CBRE Group, Inc. is an American commercial real estate services and investment firm.

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Chrysler Building

The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City, at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.

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Citigroup

Citigroup Inc. or Citi (stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company in New York City.

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Collateral (finance)

In lending agreements, collateral is a borrower's pledge of specific property to a lender, to secure repayment of a loan.

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Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is an international body in the field of tall buildings, including skyscrapers, and sustainable urban design.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois)

The Daily Herald is a daily newspaper based in Arlington Heights, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

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Deep foundation

A deep foundation is a type of foundation that transfers building loads to the earth farther down from the surface than a shallow foundation does to a subsurface layer or a range of depths.

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Descendants of Ibn Saud

Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud (1875–1953), the founder and first king of Saudi Arabia, also called Ibn Saud, was very young when he first got married.

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Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank AG is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.

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Double-deck elevator

A double-deck elevator or double-deck lift is an elevator where one cab is stacked on top of another.

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Downtown Dubai

Downtown Dubai or The Dubai Downtown is a large-scale, mixed-use complex in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Dubai

Dubai (translit) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the country's seven emirates.

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EC Harris

EC Harris Built Asset Consultancy is a construction consultancy and project management firm whose headquarters are in the United Kingdom.

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Emaar Properties

Emaar Properties (or simply Emaar) is an Emirati real estate development company located in the United Arab Emirates. The two largest shareholders are Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and the UAE's sovereign wealth fund Investment Corporation of Dubai. It is a public joint-stock company, listed on the Dubai Financial Market, and has a valuation of US$16.8 billion as of August 2023 against the Net Asset Valuation of US$37.6 billion (AED 138.1B) as of December 2022 based on the valuation of assets done by third party valuer.

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Emirates 24/7

Emirates 24/7, stylised as Emirates 24|7, is a Dubai Media Incorporated news website and television news programme, respectively.

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Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.

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Floor area

In architecture, construction, and real estate, floor area, floor space, or floorspace is the area (measured in square metres or square feet) taken up by a building or part of it.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Foster and Partners

Foster and Partners (stylized as Foster + Partners) is a British international architecture firm based in London, England, founded in 1967 by British architect and designer Lord Norman Foster.

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Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

Four Seasons Hotels Limited, trading as Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, is a Canadian luxury hotel and resort company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

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Gentrification

Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents (the "gentry") and investment.

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George B. Daniels

George Benjamin Daniels (born May 13, 1953) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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Geotechnical engineering

Geotechnical engineering, also known as geotechnics, is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials.

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Geotechnical investigation

Geotechnical investigations are performed by geotechnical engineers or engineering geologists to obtain information on the physical properties of soil earthworks and foundations for proposed structures and for repair of distress to earthworks and structures caused by subsurface conditions; this type of investigation is called a site investigation.

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Geothermal energy

Geothermal energy is thermal energy extracted from the Earth's crust.

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Gizmodo

Gizmodo is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Great Recession

The Great Recession was a period of marked decline in economies around the world that occurred in the late 2000s.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China.

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Helipad

A helipad is a landing area or platform for helicopters and powered lift aircraft.

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Hewlett-Packard

The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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HOK (firm)

HOK, formerly Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum is an American design, architecture, engineering, and urban planning firm.

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Hubris

Hubris, or less frequently hybris, describes a personality quality of extreme or excessive pride or dangerous overconfidence and complacency, often in combination with (or synonymous with) arrogance.

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Ibn Saud

Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud (translit; 15 January 1876Ibn Saud's birth year has been a source of debate. It is generally accepted as 1876, although a few sources give it as 1880. According to British author Robert Lacey's book The Kingdom, a leading Saudi historian found records that show Ibn Saud in 1891 greeting an important tribal delegation.

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Information and communications technology

Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals) and computers, as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage and audiovisual, that enable users to access, store, transmit, understand and manipulate information.

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Investment company

An investment company is a financial institution principally engaged in holding, managing and investing securities.

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Irrigation

Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns.

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IT infrastructure

Information technology infrastructure is defined broadly as a set of information technology (IT) components that are the foundation of an IT service; typically physical components (computer and networking hardware and facilities), but also various software and network components.

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ITP Media Group is a global media company founded in 1987.

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Jeddah

Jeddah, alternatively transliterated as Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda (جِدَّة|Jidda), is a port city in Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia, located along the Red Sea coast in the Hejaz region.

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Jeddah Economic City

Jeddah Economic City, previously known as Kingdom City, is a project approved for construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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Jin Mao Tower

The Jin Mao Tower (Shanghainese: Cinmeu Dagho; lit. ‘Golden Prosperity Building’), also known as the or, is a, 88-story (93 if counting the floors in the spire) landmark skyscraper in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai, China.

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Joint-stock company

A joint-stock company (JSC) is a business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders.

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King Abdulaziz International Airport

King Abdulaziz International Airport (IATA: JED, ICAO: OEJN, colloquially referred to as Jeddah Airport, Jeddah International Airport, or KAIA), is a major international airport serving the cities of Jeddah and Mecca in Saudi Arabia, located north of Jeddah and covering an area of.

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King of Saudi Arabia

The King of Saudi Arabia, officially the King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (ملك المملكة العربية السعودية.), is the monarch and head of state/government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who holds absolute power.

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Kingdom Centre

Kingdom Centre (Arabic: مركز المملكة), formerly Kingdom Tower, is a 99-story, skyscraper in the al-Olaya district of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Kingdom Holding Company

The Kingdom Holding Company (KHC; شركة المملكة القابضة) is a Saudi conglomerate holding company, based in Riyadh.

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Kodak

The Eastman Kodak Company, referred to simply as Kodak, is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in film photography.

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Kohn Pedersen Fox

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) is an American architectural firm based in New York City that provides architecture, interior, programming and master planning services.

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Kone

Kone Oyj (officially known as KONE and trading as KONE Corporation) is an elevator engineering company employing over 60,000 personnel across 60 countries worldwide.

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Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur, officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur (Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur; 吉隆坡联邦直辖区; கோலாலம்பூர் கூட்டரசு பிரதேசம்) and colloquially referred to as KL, is a federal territory and the capital city of Malaysia.

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Land banking

Land banking is the practice of aggregating parcels of land for future sale or development.

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Landscape design

Landscape design is an independent profession and a design and art tradition, practiced by landscape designers, combining nature and culture.

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List of tallest buildings

This is a list of the tallest buildings.

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List of tallest buildings and structures

The world's tallest human-made structure is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Mace (construction company)

Mace Group Ltd, commonly known as Mace, is a global consultancy and construction firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom, employing nearly 7,300 people, across five continents with a turnover of around £2 billion.

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Mecca

Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.

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MEED

MEED, formerly Middle East Economic Digest, is a media publishing company founded in 1957 focused on economic and business news related to the Middle East.

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Metro (British newspaper)

Metro is the United Kingdom's highest-circulation freesheet tabloid newspaper.

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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower (colloquially known as the Met Life Tower and also as the South Building) is a skyscraper occupying a full block in the Flatiron District of Manhattan in New York City.

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Miami Herald

The Miami Herald is an American daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

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Middle East and North Africa

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA), also referred to as West Asia and North Africa (WANA) or South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA), is a geographic region which comprises the Middle East and North Africa together.

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MoneyWeek

MoneyWeek is a British weekly investment magazine that covers financial and economic news and provides commentary and analysis across the UK and global markets.

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Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois.

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Nanjing

Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu province in eastern China. The city has 11 districts, an administrative area of, and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yangtze River Delta region, Nanjing has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having served as the capital of various Chinese dynasties, kingdoms and republican governments dating from the 3rd century to 1949, and has thus long been a major center of culture, education, research, politics, economy, transport networks and tourism, being the home to one of the world's largest inland ports.

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NBC News

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.

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Neo-futurism

Neo-futurism is a late-20th to early-21st-century movement in the arts, design, and architecture. Jeddah Tower and Neo-futurism are neo-futurist architecture.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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News Corporation

The original incarnation of News Corporation (abbreviated News Corp. and also variously known as News Corporation Limited) was an American multinational mass media corporation controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch and headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in New York City.

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Obhur Creek

Obhur Creek, or Sharm Abḥur (شرمابحر, between latitude 21°42'11" and 21°45'24" and longitude 39°05'12" and 39°08'48"E) is a tidal creek located on the eastern side of the Red Sea, near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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Observation deck

An observation deck, observation platform, or viewing platform is an elevated sightseeing platform usually situated upon a tall architectural structure, such as a skyscraper or observation tower.

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Orange Business

Orange Business, the business services arm of Orange S.A., is a global integrator of communications, products, and services for multinational corporations.

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Orange S.A.

Orange S.A. (formerly France Télécom S.A., stylised as france telecom) is a French multinational telecommunications company.

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Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (translit; 10 March 19572 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011.

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Panic of 1907

The Panic of 1907, also known as the 1907 Bankers' Panic or Knickerbocker Crisis, was a financial crisis that took place in the United States over a three-week period starting in mid-October, when the New York Stock Exchange suddenly fell almost 50% from its peak the previous year.

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Pearl River Tower

Pearl River Tower is a 71-story,, clean technology neofuturistic skyscraper at the junction of Jinsui Road/Zhujiang Avenue West, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, China.

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PepsiCo

PepsiCo, Inc. is an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation headquartered in Harrison, New York, in the hamlet of Purchase.

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Permeation

In physics and engineering, permeation (also called imbuing) is the penetration of a permeate (a fluid such as a liquid, gas, or vapor) through a solid.

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Petronas Towers

The Petronas Towers (Menara Berkembar Petronas), also known as the Petronas Twin Towers and colloquially the KLCC Twin Towers, are an interlinked pair of 88-story supertall skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, standing at.

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Ping An Finance Centre

The Ping An Finance Center is a 115-storey, supertall skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.

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Porosity

Porosity or void fraction is a measure of the void (i.e. "empty") spaces in a material, and is a fraction of the volume of voids over the total volume, between 0 and 1, or as a percentage between 0% and 100%.

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Real-estate bubble

A real-estate bubble or property bubble (or housing bubble for residential markets) is a type of economic bubble that occurs periodically in local or global real estate markets, and it typically follows a land boom.

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Red Sea

The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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RIA Novosti

RIA Novosti (РИА Новости), sometimes referred to as RIAN or RIA (label), is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency.

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Riyadh

Riyadh (ar-Riyāḍ) is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.

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Saudi Binladin Group

Saudi Binladen Group (SBG; مجموعة بن لادن السعودية), known as Binladen Group Global Holding Company since 2019, is a multinational construction conglomerate headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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Saudi riyal

The Saudi riyal (ريال سعودي) is the currency of Saudi Arabia.

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Seawater

Seawater, or sea water, is water from a sea or ocean.

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Shanghai Tower

Shanghai Tower is a 128-story, megatall skyscraper located in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai.

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Shear wall

A shear wall is an element of a structurally engineered system that is designed to resist in-plane lateral forces, typically wind and seismic loads.

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Shenzhen

Shenzhen is a city and special economic zone on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong to the south, Dongguan to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, and Macau to the southwest.

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Singer Building

The Singer Building (also known as the Singer Tower) was an office building and early skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City.

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Sky lobby

A sky lobby is an intermediate interchange floor in a skyscraper where people can change from an express elevator that stops only at the sky lobby to a local elevator that stops at a subset of higher floors.

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Solar power

Solar power, also known as solar electricity, is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power.

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SOM (architectural firm)

SOM, previously Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, is a Chicago-based architectural, urban planning, and engineering firm.

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Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered PLC is a British multinational bank with operations in consumer, corporate and investment banking, and treasury services.

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Superstructure

A superstructure is an upward extension of an existing structure above a baseline.

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Syfy

Syfy (a paraphrased neology of former name Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable television channel, which is owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division and business segment of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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Taipei 101

Taipei 101 (stylized in all caps), formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, is a skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Clock Towers

The Clock Towers (lit, formerly known as Abraj Al Bait), is a government-owned complex of seven skyscraper hotels in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Illinois

The Mile-High Illinois, or simply The Illinois, is an unbuilt conceptual design by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for a one mile-high skyscraper to be built in Chicago, Illinois.

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The Shard

The Shard, also referred to as the Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a pyramid-shaped 72-storey mixed-use development supertall skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Bermondsey, London, that forms part of The Shard Quarter development.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.

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Thornton Tomasetti

Thornton Tomasetti (formerly the Thornton-Tomasetti Group, Thornton Tomasetti Engineers, Lev Zetlin & Associates, LZA Technology and Weidlinger Associates) is a global, 1,500-plus person scientific and engineering consulting firm.

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Tower of Babel

The Tower of Babel is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages.

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Transportation engineering

Transportation engineering or transport engineering is the application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation and management of facilities for any mode of transportation in order to provide for the safe, efficient, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods transport.

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Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)

The Trump International Hotel and Tower is a skyscraper condo-hotel in downtown Chicago, Illinois.

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Tuned mass damper

A tuned mass damper (TMD), also known as a harmonic absorber or seismic damper, is a device mounted in structures to reduce mechanical vibrations, consisting of a mass mounted on one or more damped springs.

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United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.

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Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T.

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Willis Tower

The Willis Tower, originally and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story, skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States.

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Wind engineering

Wind engineering is a subset of mechanical engineering, structural engineering, meteorology, and applied physics that analyzes the effects of wind in the natural and the built environment and studies the possible damage, inconvenience or benefits which may result from wind.

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Wind power

Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work.

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Windward and leeward

In geography and seamanship, windward and leeward are directions relative to the wind.

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Winnipeg Free Press

The Winnipeg Free Press (or WFP; founded as the Manitoba Free Press) is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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World Trade Center (1973–2001)

The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a large complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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WTTW

WTTW (channel 11) is a PBS member television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Zifeng Tower

Zifeng Tower (Greenland Center-Zifeng Tower or Greenland Square Zifeng Tower, formerly Nanjing Greenland Financial Center) is a supertall skyscraper (special class of skyscraper) in Nanjing, Jiangsu.

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1993 World Trade Center bombing

The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack carried out by Al-Qaeda against the United States on February 26, 1993, when a van bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in New York City.

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1997 Asian financial crisis

The 1997 Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of East and Southeast Asia during the late 1990s.

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2007–2008 financial crisis

The 2007–2008 financial crisis, or the global financial crisis (GFC), was the most severe worldwide economic crisis since the Great Depression.

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2017–2019 Saudi Arabian purge

The 2017–19 Saudi Arabian purge was the mass arrest of a number of prominent Saudi Arabian princes, government ministers, and business people in Saudi Arabia on 4 November 2017.

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40 Wall Street

40 Wall Street (also the Trump Building; formerly the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building and Manhattan Company Building) is a neo-Gothic skyscraper on Wall Street between Nassau and William streets in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City, United States.

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See also

2020 in Saudi Arabia

Buildings and structures under construction in Saudi Arabia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeddah_Tower

Also known as Burj Al-Meel, Burj Jeddah, Hyder Consulting Tower, Jedda Tower, Jiddah Tower, King Salman Tower, Kingdom Tower, Kingdom Tower (Jeddah), Mile High Tower, Mile-High Tower, The Mile Tower.

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