Abandoned - Jeddah Tower

Unlike most abandoned places, this one just sticks out and you can literally never ignore it lol.

part of me is sad huge projects like this are cancelled, not seeing what could've been, but at the same time they're mainly vanity projects, and do little to improve the lives of the people living in the area. Still its crazy the amount of money spent for something that may never be finished.

These places just always make me think about where the workers would live. Like, this whole place just seems built around a top heavy economic structure without thinking about the people who would actually work the counters, clean the floors and sweep the streets. I’m gonna assume they weren’t planning on putting affordable housing next to their ritzy malls and hotels.

As of now, the Jeddah Tower has FINALLY started resuming construction. Unfortunately, it is unknown when it will be completed.

Always a good day when there's a new Abandoned episode.

These buildings may be abandoned but this channel certainly isn't; good work as always, my dude.

That doesn’t impress the world. Stability and democracy do.

When I was working in Saudi I got to travel around many areas. I found it funny to see many large royal palaces abandoned in remote sites. I was told these were built for the king but most of them he visited once or twice and he never returned. I thought that was a big waste of money back then.

"Along the red sea sits a looming figure..." sounds very much like the opening line from fantasy, scifi and horror stories from 1920's to 1950's.

Love the progression of it all Burj Khalifa - Half Empty Jeddah Tower - Half Finished GOOD! Keep it up, its only being built to flex, nothing else and they can't even do that right. Let it fail.

I live in Jeddah and I will tell u the real reason why it was shut. Pretty simple yet bluntly saying The CEO who was arrested his ego was hurt and he stopped the project.

Oceanwide Plaza in Los Angeles has been abandoned since 2019 with 3 49 story residential towers connected by a podium.

I’ve lived most of my life in Saudi Arabia since my parents were overseas workers. I’ve passed through that construction site countless times during my time and years upon years I was kinda curious to what it would look like when it’s finished. Crazy how projects like these stagnate. Great vid, gave me huge memories of Saudi Arabia. Love from the Philippines 🇵🇭

Jaddah tower is the embodiment of everything I hate in modern tower development. They built it purely as a vanity project, not because it would actually be useful. You're generally not meant to start with tall buildings and then build the rest of the city around it. Tall buildings are supposed to develop naturally as demand requires, over the course of many decades. Projects like this happen when a rich fool gets a grandiose vision in their head, but they aren't patient enough to develop such a project realistically. They think it's like a game of Sim CIty were you can just build an entire city the way you want it, with a magical flood of demand following thereafter. Another classic example of this is the Azerbaijan tower/Khazar islands. Billionaire Ibrahim Ibrahimov literally came up with the idea on a flight whilst returning from Dubai, he then quickly scribbled it down on a napkin and ordered his people to start planning it. They ended up building some of the reclaimed land required for it (as the whole thing stretches into the sea, like Dubai's palm islands), built a few avenues and... that's about it. The project stalled, for the usual reasons.

I wondered, when I will see an opening of this skyscraper, now I'm watching a video about this skyscraper as an abandoned building.

Just a note, currently in Jeddah, they have begun construction again, but the height now will only reach approx. 480meters.

This sounds like the North Korean hotel story, just for a new generation. -Vanity project -Unnecessary (rather because there’s more than enough space or not enough people) -Corruption hindering work -Left incomplete and abandoned -National embarrassment

"Or the stupid mirror line thing" made me laugh out loud, glad you mentioned that ludicrous project.

I feel like a tower of this size would get a lot more tourists if there was more to look at than just sand.

As a Boy Scout I would like to see an abandoned episode on Treasure Island on the Delaware River, it has such rich history and a very hopeful future. Edit: Treasure Island is a Boy Scout camp that was opened in 1915 and abandoned in 2008