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Originally Posted by Jibba
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?
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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.