Well, this was a gaudy project from the start, but well done for doing something different! While I personally think this project is ugly and a bit inappropriate overlooking such an important site, I still have a lot to applaud about this building.
It has its own style (at least as far as supertalls go), the crown actually works with the size of the cluster of towers at the base, the clock tower is just in a league of its own and the overall attention to detail does a lot to stifle my initial view that the whole thing was tacky. It's a shame I will never get to see it in person.
The skinny Pearl Tower absolutely soared over everything else when I lived in Shanghai so my mind is boggled as to how dominant this much taller tower will appear in Mecca which has a much lower skyline.
Well done, and if we get a whole lot of imitators, this skyscraper nut will not be in the slightest unhappy