RIYADH | Kingdom Centre | 984 FT / 300 M | 41 FLOORS | 2002
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website http://www.kingdomcentre.com.sa/kc/s...-img2-zoom.jpg website Random images from the web: http://updatecenter.britannica.com/e...9&rendTypeId=4 website http://coffeeandcapitalism.com/blog2..._almamlaka.jpg website http://www.tallest-buildings.com/ima...GDOM_TOWER.jpg website http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6.../kingdom01.jpg website http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1141/...1667537b47.jpg website. An almost never seen view of the building: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6.../kingdom03.jpg website. I really like this building. Not many people here talk about it. It's actually a nice building and would like to visit it before I turn 50. Anybody ever take any pictures? I only find them on the web but I'd like to see some taken by fellow forumers. |
impressive building, on most of those pictures looks like a render though
shanghai's wfc is certainly very similar-looking http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05...na_74b5133.jpg |
Amazing building. Would love to see this one in person - I bet it would be spectacular.
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Scary, in a cool way.
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I've never seen night shots of this tower. Nice!
Can't say we've ever had a thread on Riyadh here on SSP. Who designed this? I honestly don't recall (I know Foster did the other really tall tower in this city - the pyramid with the ball on top)...Pickard-Chilton? |
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Another night shot (courtesy of Wikipedia);
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...iyadh_city.jpg |
This building is still probably in my favourite 20 of all time.
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The building's design is cool, but it almost doesn't look real, as if some joker photoshopped it into a bunch of pictures of Riyadh.
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I thought "asshole" or "buttmunch" or anything of that nature would've sounded crass ;)
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Perhaps the design is so compelling because it reminds us of a piece of female anatomy? Or reminds me of one anyway.:haha:
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amazing! thanks Aleks!
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Stunning architecture and the lighting at night is impressive.
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Absolutely incredible.
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This is pretty cool too. http://www.kingdomcentre.com.sa/kc/z...20Map&size=164 *click on pictures for image source* |
Such a knock-out tower in so many ways. The fit and finish is impeccable--the tower looks so ethereal and flawless in almost all lighting conditions.
The giant, parabolic opening was also a result of programmatic guidelines for the design--apparently there is some strange rule in Riyadh that caps the number of floors or the height of the occupied floor space, and the architect was able to thwart the restrictions by creating a giant opening capped by an obs deck. Can anyone else corroborate this? |
Legendary!
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looks like a giant bottle opener
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