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But this is the story of if it's finished, eventually, will be, at least for a while, the tallest building in the world. Yeah, it's gonna make the Berg Khalifa look like poop. (laughs) So let's go back to 2008.
There was a billionaire investor named Prince Aloede Ben Talal of Saudi Arabia.
“And I think he's his goal was to make the Berg Khalifa look like poop.”
He was like, "I want to make one taller." I want to build a city and around it, called the Jetta Economic City, a terrible name. Yeah.
And basically, like, they wanted to compete with Dubai,
but in Saudi Arabia. Right, 'cause Dubai is in the UAE. And he wanted to build the first skyscraper to reach over 3,280 feet or higher. And for those of us in the United States
and for our friends in Liberia, that is a kilometer. So this would be the first kilometer high building, which is mind-bogglingly tall. And he's doing it, baby, in 2000.
Well, I guess they made it up to 2018, before-- Oh, no, here, I was in good feet. Right, no, the year, yeah, that was a little confusing. I'm sorry about that. That's right.
Especially when you know the construction history of the tower. But no, they made it up to 2018 the year. Yeah. Yes, I should have said. Before they had to halt construction,
thanks to a bunch of different stuff. That's right. You know, it's the way you said it. When you said they went all the way up to 2018. Oh, brick, by brick, all the way to 2018.
So yeah, construction pause in 2018, we'll talk about why, here in a minute, and also COVID had a big dent in it. The Burj Khalifa is the current tallest building at 27 feet tall.
The year? Oh, no. If you're wondering about the eventual kilometer high building, the jet of tower, if you remember, our beloved twin towers here in the United States, it will be about twice the size
of those, which is astonishing to think about. Also, I mean, for a little closer to home, if you don't live in New York, the average two-story house is about 20 to 25 feet tall. Right, for comparison.
How many big mix? I looked, and I was like, I'm not doing this. Yeah, that's over. It was designed both Burj Khalifa and the jet of tower by an American architect named Adrian Smith.
Did not know that. Yeah, and they're both, you know, it's not a copycat of the Burj Khalifa, but it's definitely similar in structure, because what Adrian Smith reckoned and figured out
was that making a building that tall as a triangle as a y-shape instead of a square, instead of a box or a rectangle, is a lot safer for, like, you know, he did wind tunnel testing and stuff like that.
It's like the thing is going to meet the wind and it's safer way. Yeah, it gets awfully windy the higher up we go.
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“They had to figure out how to shore it up”
before a hurricane hit.
That was like on its way, basically.
It's a really, really great article. I guess at the time they would have brought in Bruce Willis to solve that problem. That's right. Yeah, man, that's not going to read that.
That sounds great. It is so greatly suspenseful. It's just a wonderful article. One of the best ever. Awesome.
So the Birch Khalifa, one of the differences is that one tapers in different stages, at different sections. But the jet-a-tower is sort of one big triangle. It's going to be one continuously tapering tower.
And literally sort of piercing the clouds at one point. Yeah, I saw that Adrian Smith was inspired by how palm leaves stick up from the top of a tree before they unfurl. Cool, and bend over.
And I looked at a picture.
I'm like, yep, that looks like the jet-a-tower. Yeah, awesome. So you want to take a little break and come back
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So we're gonna just give you a few nuts and bolts appropriately about the Gerttawer. The big showstopper there will be the observation tower, open air observation tower, which is terrifying. It'll be at 2,187 feet.
They were gonna have a hell of pad on it, or it was supposedly supposed to be a hell of pad,
“I think, and architects were like, "He can't out here”
"and you can't land a hell of a copter on something that high out here." That's not a good idea. - So we're like, "We'll make it an observation deck." We'll just tell everybody to ignore the giant H in the circle on the deck.
- Yeah, exactly. - Stand in the center of that. - So, yeah, I mean, I don't like heights, but I would check that out if I ever found myself in Gertta. - Yeah, maybe.
By the way, Gertta is actually already at a town there on the Red Sea. There was a guy who was interviewed in this house stuff works article. Maybe Architectural Digest, where he said,
"This is not a place where you would normally live." Which I think is kind of mean to people who live in Gertta, but I get his point. It's not like Gertta economic city, but it's claimed a theme, as far as I know,
is that it is the tomb. It holds the tomb of Eve, Eve of Garden of Eden, fame. And they think that, yes, and they think that Gertta is a derivation of Java,
which means grandmother. - Okay. - That's some raiders that the law starts, stuff right there. - Wow.
- All right, my mind is kind of blown.
- Yeah, it blew my mind too.
I just couldn't not share it. - All right, this might blow your mind too. The Gertta or at least according to its original plans, who knows what's gonna end up happening, will have about 80,000 tons of steel,
59 ultra high speed elevators, eight escalators, seven double-decker elevators.
“I think if you're going up to that observatory in terrace,”
you're gonna go at about 32 feet per second, which is pretty fast, and it's a mixed use space. It's gonna, the bottom third is gonna be off its space. It's gonna be a luxury hotel, and then the 167 highest floors,
which sounds crazy to say, will be apartments, and of course, I'm sure some very rich chic, or somebody will own that pithouse at the crown of the whole thing. - Yeah, I found some pictures, some renderings of it,
and I'm like, meh, I mean, you could find the exact same thing in Miami or Rio, or it just looks like whatever.
It's, you know, I mean, ours, self is gonna be amazing,
but yeah, it's just, you know, when you have that much space, and that much wealth, there's only so much you can do. - Yeah, agreed. The original name was a kingdom tower, and they broke ground in April of 2013.
It took more than a year just to lay the foundation, and they have these concrete pylings, tin feet and diameter, longer than a football field that go down very, very, very deep into the earth, and because of these delays, you know,
they had to stop in 2017 when there was a political crisis in Saudi Arabia that was a move to sort of consolidate power and crown prince Mohammed bin Salman had a big anti-corruption purge where he arrested 11 Saudi princes, one of which was the financial backer of the Jedit Tower,
and some of the partners in the Saudi bin Laden group. So because of that and COVID, it halted for a lot of years, and I think like five years, and I was watching this YouTube video
where they basically said, like,
when that happens in a place like this, like you usually tear it down and start over, because, you know, sand damage, salt damage, just corrosion to steel and corrosion to the concrete, probably makes it very unsafe moving forward,
but apparently they had the foresight to install these underground sensors in those pylings, and they could get readings that apparently said, like, it were all good down here. - Yeah, that's amazing.
That is some foresight. - Yeah. - You were telling me about that, and you hadn't got to the part where they had the sensors, and I was like, please tell me that they are not just building
on top of an unsafe structure, or they're gonna have to tear the whole thing down and start over, but nope, you really came through with the great positive twist at the end. - Yeah, well, they eventually restarted after COVID,
“I think in 23, September 2023 is when they finally restarted,”
they said in 2023 it would be another four or five years, but in 2025, just over a year ago, 60 of the 167 floors have been built, and this year in January, they passed just recently, the 80 floor mark.
- Yeah, so they're almost halfway there. There is, they're thinking that they might be done in the next couple of years. - Yeah, I don't know, but, I mean, I did the YouTube video also said
that they are going at like a breakneck pace now. - Yeah, that's, you don't really wanna do that when you're building the world's tallest building, but no, I agree. Also, little fact, if you were like Prince Baham,
it'd been Solomon, he sounds kind of familiar. - Yeah, when he did that anti-corruption purge, those are the same time that he ordered Jamal Khashoggi, the tallest and dissident murdered. - That's right, yet he was still welcomed
into our White House. - So, you got anything else? - I have nothing else. We'll see what happens with the Jeditower. I mean, it looks like it'll be finished.
You know, I don't know about four or five years from 2023, but we'll see. - Yeah, and sorry to all the people who saw this short-step title, Jeditower, and were like, they better not bring the White House
into this. Short-step is out.
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