{"id":3383,"date":"2026-04-26T16:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:29:17","slug":"jeddah-tower-reaches-100-floors-moves-closer-to-surpassing-burj-khalifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/04\/26\/jeddah-tower-reaches-100-floors-moves-closer-to-surpassing-burj-khalifa\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeddah Tower reaches 100 floors, moves closer to surpassing Burj Khalifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s ambitious Jeddah Tower has achieved a major construction milestone, with the completion of its 100th floor. The tower has now reached a height of approximately 394 metres, marking steady progress toward becoming the world\u2019s tallest building.<\/p><p>Once completed, Jeddah Tower is expected to exceed 1,000 metres in height, overtaking the current record-holder, Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It has already surpassed the height of PIF Tower in Riyadh.<\/p><p>Construction of the tower began in 2013 but faced multiple setbacks, including financial challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic, and contractor changes, leading to a prolonged pause. Work resumed in early 2025 and is now advancing at a faster pace.<\/p><p>Project officials have set a target to complete and open the tower by 2028, positioning it as a landmark development in Saudi Arabia\u2019s skyline and a symbol of its ambitious infrastructure goals.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s ambitious Jeddah Tower has achieved a major construction milestone, with the completion of its 100th floor. The tower has now reached a height of approximately 394 metres, marking steady progress toward becoming the world\u2019s tallest building. Once completed, Jeddah Tower is expected to exceed 1,000 metres in height, overtaking the current record-holder, Burj [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-saudi-en"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3385,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/3385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}