Jeddah Tower was supposed to be the world's highest skyscraper, at over 1 km (3,281 ft tall). The cost was budgeted at about $1.2 billion. Construction began in 2013 and was supposed to take about 5 years.
However, as of January 2018, the tower is only about 252m (827 ft) tall and no work has been done since then. The main financier of it was Saudi Arabian prince Al-Waleed bin Talal who was worth $40 billion in 2017, but he was arrested in the Saudi Arabian purge, and most of his wealth was seized.
The building will likely never be completed.
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