Kingdom Tower

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Kingdom Tower was Designed by Chicago Firm Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture. It is the world's tallest building, which

British construction firms ED Harris and Mace were selected by the Jeddah Economic Company (JEC) to provide project.

The building will consist of a five star Four Seasons Hotel offering luxury suites, serviced apartments and offices encompassing 530,000 square meters of space along with the world's highest observation deck. Visitors and residents will be able to enjoy spectacular views of the Red Sea through outdoor terraces on three sides of the building.

The Kingdom Tower features a streamlined and aerodynamic design set to represent a bundle of leaves shooting up from the ground, reinforcing Saudi Arabia's desire for evolution and urban development for Jeddah. It will also feature a high performance exterior designed to minimize energy consumption and reduce thermal loads.

The tower is also being celebrated for incorporating the "world's most sophisticated elevator system," with 59 elevators and 12 escalators moving people throughout the building floors. Elevators to the observation deck will travel at an impressive rate of 10 meters per second in both directions.

Kingdom Tower is due to be completed in winter 2018.

Tall Buildings Completions in 2012 Decreased

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat reported that tall buildings completions in 2012 decreased. Only 66 buildings were completed in 2012 compared to 82 in 2011.

The Middle East and China dominated the 2012 tall buildings list with the Middle East completing 16 buildings and Asia completing 25 buildings, 22 of them in China alone.

Dubai secured the top two spots with the 393-metre 23 Marina building surpassed only by the 413-metre Princess Tower. North America completed six buildings, only two of which were in the United States, a figure that is fairly low for a country with so many cities. Australia completed three tall buildings, marking the country's first additions to its roster of tall buildings since 2007.

Countries such as China and Australia are experiencing a rapid rise in urbanisation from their rural areas with a high demand for livable and sustainable high-rise homes. Along with urbanisation, other factors directing this increase include the limited availability of urban land forcing developers to build vertically.

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Equality

Since the ancient times, men and women are not really equal, even people always say humans are equal and the law prescribes that we are equal.

In a recent survey, Zaha Hadid, an acclaimed female starchitect, has described the attitude she encounterred when working in the UK compared to other European countries as 'misogynist.' The survey reveals that nearly a third of those surveyed were aware that they were being paid less than their male colleagues in the same role. Hadid spoke to the Observer newspaper describing it as 'difficult' to work in the UK compared to European countries, they are very conservative.

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In fact, Zaha Hadid's ability is no worse than men. In 2004, Hadid was the first woman to win the coveted Pritzker Architecture Prize. She is renowned for her poerful architectural structures and she assumed that women were better suited to design and decorating roles, designing residential properties, public buildings or leisure centres rather than large scale commercial projects and there needed to be a culture shift.

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