Burj Assila Residences, Shangri-La Jeddah
Jeddah Corniche. Shangri-La. The residences of Burj Assila, the sail-screened tower that opened four years late.
A tower screened like old Jeddah's mashrabiya, set end-on to the Red Sea so its balconies deepen as they rise: Burj Assila, by Perkins+Will for Assila Investments, holding Shangri-La's first hotel in Saudi Arabia and the Burj Assila Residences, which Shangri-La was engaged in 2015 to manage and serve. Agreed for an opening in early 2018; opened in 2022.
Almost every figure changed between the agreement and the opening. The residences were 122 in 2015 and 116 at opening; the hotel 242 and then 236 rooms in the contracts and 220 rooms, suites and apartments when it opened; the tower 65 storeys and 240 metres, 64 storeys and 260 metres, or 65 storeys and 264.7 metres, completed in 2021 or 2022, depending on the source. The register records the opening-day counts as current.
Who it is not for
Not for a buyer who needs the residences described in their own right: every source describes them only as the hotel's neighbours.
Sources
- arabnews.com 01.06.2015 (Assila Investments and Shangri-La sign an MoU: a 242-room hotel in a 65-storey tower on Jeddah Corniche Road, slated to open in early 2018 as the first Shangri-La in Saudi Arabia; Shangri-La to manage and provide services to 122 residences; design by Perkins+Will, 2009 MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Award
- hospitalitynet.org 19.11.2015 (contract for a 236-room hotel and serviced residences; 122 apartments from two bedrooms to the top-floor penthouse
- aspiretravelclub.co.uk 25.02.2022 (opened: 220 rooms, suites and apartments in the 64-storey Burj Assila, 260 metres, Jeddah's tallest building, in a SAR 2 billion development with 116 Burj Assila Residences
- perkinswill.com 30.10.2025 (hotel, serviced apartments and condominiums in a continuous ribbon; balconies deepening with height; inspired by the mashrabiya screens of old Jeddah
- en.wikipedia.org — List of tallest buildings in Saudi Arabia (264.7 m, 65 floors, 2021; also known as Sail Tower
- shangri-la.com (Burj Assila, Corniche Road, Ash Shati
- Knight Frank, The Saudi Report 2025, p. 42 (named as 'Shangri-La Residences — Jeddah')
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In the journal
22.09.2026 · Saudi Arabia, run 2 — Jeddah's Corniche, and a hotel that is not a home
Three towers on the Jeddah Corniche and a villa town in Riyadh. Four Seasons Private Residences Jeddah at the Corniche — sixty-four homes in two towers joined by bridges eight storeys deep — was announced for 2024 and is now due in 2027. Burj Assila Residences, in the sail-screened tower of Shangri-La's first Saudi hotel, opened in 2022 against a 2018 promise, with nearly every count changed on the way. The DAMAC Residences at Al Jawharah carry Versace Home's interiors on the top ten floors of a tower launched at Harrods in 2011; the register keeps that licence apart from Palazzo Versace.
Named in research
- Knight Frank · 2025 · The Saudi Report — p. 42 — as “Shangri-La Residences — Jeddah”, added to the register from research
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Investment migration — the facts the rule turns on
The rule for Saudi Arabia: Residence permit above a threshold — checked 24.09.2026.
| Entry price | Not established | 22.09.2026 · searched in the record's sources; not published |
| Seller | Not established | 22.09.2026 · searched in the record's sources; not published |
| Construction status | Completed | 22.09.2026 · record sources |
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