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Kingdom Centre
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Key facts
- Alternative names
- Riyadh City Center
- Preceded by
- Al Faisaliah Tower
- Surpassed by
- The Clock Towers
- Status
- Completed
- Type
- Commercial offices, Residential condominiums , Hotel
- Architectural style
- Modernism
- Location
- King Fahad Road Saudi Arabia
- Cost
- SR 1.7 billion (US$453 million)
- Architectural
- 302.3 m (991.80 ft)
- Top floor
- 290.4 m (952.76 ft)
- Observatory
- 290.4 m (952.76 ft)
- Floor area
- 185,000 m (1,991,323 ft )
- Architect
- Ellerbe Becket Omrania
- Developer
- Kingdom Holding Company
- Engineer
- Arup
- Main contractor
- EL-Seif Engineering Contracting & Salini Impregilo (Webuild)
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Encyclopedic overview
Daytime view of Kingdom Centre
Kingdom Centre (Arabic: مركز المملكة), formerly Kingdom Tower, is a 99-story, 302.3 m (992 ft) skyscraper in the al-Olaya district of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. When completed in 2002, it overtook the 267-meter (876 ft) Faisaliah Tower as the tallest tower in Saudi Arabia. It has since been surpassed and, as of 2021, is the fifth-tallest skyscraper in the country, whose tallest two buildings are The Clock Towers and the Capital Market Authority Tower. It is the world's third-tallest building with a hole, after the Shanghai World Financial Center and the 85 Sky Tower in Taiwan. It contains the King Abdullah Mosque, which is the world's most elevated mosque from ground level.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kingdom Centre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.