The tallest tower in the complex stands as the tallest building in Saudi Arabia, with a height of 601 metres (1,972 feet). The destruction of the fort in 2002 by the Saudi government sparked Turkish and international outcry. The complex was built after the demolition of the Ajyad Fortress, the 18th-century Ottoman citadel which stood atop a hill overlooking the Grand Mosque. The developer and contractor of the complex is the Saudi Binladin Group, the Kingdom's largest construction company. The building complex is metres away from the world's largest mosque and Islam's most sacred site, the Masjid al-Haram. The central hotel building has the world's largest clock face and is the third tallest building and fourth tallest freestanding structure in the world. These towers are a part of the King Abdulaziz Endowment Project that strives to modernize the city in catering to its pilgrims. The Abraj Al-Bait Towers, also known as the Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel, is a government-owned megatall building complex in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Lua error in a at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Main structural system: reinforced concrete (lower part), steel/concrete composite construction, steel construction (upper part) Ĭladding: glass, marble, natural stone, carbon-/glass- fibre-reinforced plasticĭevelopment: 1,575,815 m 2 (16,961,930 sq ft)
Abraj Al-Bait Towers as seen from Masjid al-Haram in June 2012
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