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CNN —Construction of Saudi Arabia’s kilometer-high Jeddah Tower, which will become the world’s tallest skyscraper upon completion, has resumed almost seven years after work ground to a halt amid a kingdom-wide anti-corruption purge. His family’s firm, which also owns a stake in the Jeddah Tower project, has been rehired to complete the construction work. Designed for extremesFormerly known as Kingdom Tower, the skyscraper broke ground in 2013 and was initially expected to be completed by 2020. The architect’s Chicago-based practice, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, has said the tower’s shape “evokes a bundle of leaves shooting up from the ground.”Work halted on the unfinished Jeddah Tower in 2018. Jeddah Tower will be the crown jewel of a wider 57-million-square-foot, $20-billion development dubbed Jeddah Economic City.
Persons: Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s, JEC, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Alwaleed, , Bakr, Laden, Osama bin Laden, Adrian Smith, Gordon Gill, Amel, ” Adrian Smith, JEC’s, Hisham Jomah, , Jomah Organizations: CNN, Jeddah Economic Company, Saudi, Kingdom Holding Company, , Kingdom Holding, Saudi Binladen Group, Newsweek, Maxar, Jeddah Economic Locations: Saudi, Jeddah, Saudi Prince, Dubai, Burj Khalifa, Chicago, Medina, Mecca,
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