📋 Tender Overview
Scope of Work:
Construction of 2-kilometre high skyscraper in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
Description:
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is considering plans for a 2-kilometre megatall tower as part of an 18-square-kilometre masterplanned development to the north of Riyadh. The proposed tower will be more than double the height of the world’s tallest building – Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which is 828 metres tall. Depending on the final design, a 2km-tall structure could cost about $5bn to construct. A design competition with a participation fee of $1m is underway for the record-breaking tower. about eight firms have been invited to participate in the competition. The firms involved include some of the world’s leading names in architecture, which have been selected based on their experience working on other megatall towers and iconic designs around the world.
The prospective participants include US-based firms Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture, Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) and Gensler; 10Design, which is part of France’s Egis; and Dubai-based Killa Design. The project site is located west of the existing King Khalid International airport, and EY conducted the feasibility study for the development.
