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Old Posted Feb 17, 2009, 2:59 PM
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This one is truly stunning.
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It's quite...Schick.

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Old Posted Feb 18, 2009, 10:11 PM
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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?
I watched a Discovery Channel (i believe) program on this building and they did mention something about a height restriction for habitable floors or something to that effect or number of floors restriction. I love this building as well, to me it hardly seems just shy of 1,000 ft but that might be because there is nothing around it at all. There is another almost 1,000 ft building down the road that used the same type of technique to skirt the floor issue. It is a pointy building.
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You mean the Al Faisaliah Center? It's also a great building. The shape is pretty cool and that sphere at the top is amazing!


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Old Posted Mar 2, 2009, 7:36 PM
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Hey

That building contains 100 floors not just 41.

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1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Centre
2 - http://kingdomcentre.com.sa/kc/about/centre_map.phtml

In the second link see the second picture ???
so someone please correct that wrong information about kingdom centre


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^No it doesn't. . . there are 41 floors above ground. . . the Wikipedia entry is incorrect. . . and if you can count, you will notice that there clearly aren't 100 floors in the stacking diagram you attempted to link to. . .
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the design of this tower is marvelous.

and it indeed looks like it was photo shopped into the skyline only plenty of small apartment buildings, and then suddenly this amazing skyscraper pops up
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