{"id":7555,"date":"2011-04-12T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/saudi-company-oks-construction-of-world-s-tallest-building-at-1-mile-high\/"},"modified":"2018-10-22T11:06:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:06:29","slug":"saudi-company-oks-construction-of-world-s-tallest-building-at-1-mile-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/saudi-company-oks-construction-of-world-s-tallest-building-at-1-mile-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Company OKs Construction of World\u2019s Tallest Building at 1 Mile High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kingdom Holding Company, the largest company in Saudi Arabia is set to construct the world\u2019s tallest building that will stand at a staggering 5,280 feet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mile-high Kingdom Tower in Jeddah will be nearly double the height of the 2,717-foot Burj Khalifa in Dubai which currently hold\u2019s the \u201cworld\u2019s highest\u201d title.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Designed by Adrian Smith, the American architect behind the Burj Khalifa, the tower will reportedly cost $30 billion to construct and feature 12 million cubic feet of space for offices, restaurants, and residential units.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An elevator ride to the top is expected to take nearly 12 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allheadlinenews.com\/articles\/90044302?Saudi%20firm%20okays%20construction%20of%20one-mile%20high%20building\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">All Headline News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.divinearchitect.org\/jeddah%E2%80%99s-kingdom-tower-double-the-height-of-the-burj-khalifa\/jeddah-kingdom-tower-double-the-height-of-the-burj-khalifa-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Divine Architect <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kingdom Holding Company, the largest company in Saudi Arabia is set to construct the world\u2019s tallest building that will stand at a staggering 5,280 feet. &nbsp; The mile-high Kingdom Tower in Jeddah will be nearly double the height of the 2,717-foot Burj Khalifa in Dubai which currently hold\u2019s the \u201cworld\u2019s highest\u201d title. &nbsp; Designed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897887,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7555\/revisions\/98897887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}