This futuristic Saudi skyscraper will lift visitors 630 meters on carbon fiber ropes

We already knew this architectural dream would be cool, but this futuristic Saudi skyscraper will lift visitors 630 meters in a glass elevator using carbon fiber ropes just confirms it.

Jeddah Tower is being built in Saudi Arabia, on the Red Sea coast, and is designed to surpass all existing skyscrapers in height, soaring more than a kilometer into the sky.

It’s been designed by the same team behind parts of the iconic Burj khalifa in Dubai, and it’s made to look like a three-petal desert plant.

The tower is about to change the way we think about skyscrapers, not just with its record-breaking height, but with the way it moves people through the sky.

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This futuristic Saudi skyscraper will lift visitors on carbon fiber ropes

We have seen some beautiful properties over the years, from sprawling mansions to towering skyscrapers, but this futuristic Saudi skyscraper will change everything we know.

Jeddah Tower asks what if the wildest elevator ride of your life didn’t happen in Las Vegas or Tokyo, but in the middle of the Saudi desert?

Forget steel cables, because here, your ride to the top of this towering skyscraper is a glass elevator powered by carbon fiber ropes.

Not only will this skyscraper be the tallest building ever built, soaring 1,000 meters into the sky, but the tower will pack everything in: luxury hotels, residences, offices, retail, and entertainment spread over 530,000 square meters.

The star attraction is the Sky Terrace

The building’s pièce de résistance is the Sky Terrace, which is a circular platform about 30 meters wide perched at level 157, or roughly 630 meters off the ground.

It’s the highest publicly accessible observation deck in the world, but getting there is half the thrill.

Double-deck shuttle elevators, running at speeds of 10 meters per second, will whisk visitors upwards in sci-fi movie style because these aren’t your ordinary, everyday elevators.

They use an intelligent destination control system that groups passengers heading to the same level, so you spend less time stopping and more time accelerating through the sky – super handy.

Steel elevator cables have served us pretty well for a long time, but at extreme heights like the Jeddah Tower, they become a problem.

The steel cables are heavy, they stretch, and they don’t perform well when towers sway in the wind.

That’s why Jeddah Tower’s lifts will use KONE’s UltraRope technology. These are ropes made with a carbon fiber core wrapped in a protective coating. You can see these ropes in action in F1 cars.

This material makes something never done before possible: it means that designers can make elevators higher, go further, and get there faster.

Jeddah Tower is not only going to look impressive, it’s going to be a masterpiece in architecture – and we can’t wait to see it.

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