The second tallest tower in Saudi Arabia. Kingdom Tower in Riyadh

The Kingdom between the dream and its realization

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest country among the Gulf countries, but it also has a special place in the hearts of all Muslims because it contains the two qiblas Mecca and the city of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, the kingdom that was the first spot of light in the Arabian Peninsula and guided the rest of the countries in it for what it saw and touched of progress and development in various fields of life. The Kingdom, which annually receives millions of pilgrims and tourists from all over the world to visit the two qiblas or to perform Hajj or Umrah, even for entertainment and hiking on the Arabian Gulf in resorts designated for that such as Marjan Island in the Eastern Province or to attend the Riyadh season, where art, creativity, entertainment and even other activities that can attract tourists and visitors to enter the Kingdom.

But such a renaissance and this form of openness to the world did not begin suddenly, as it was a long road of rehabilitation, construction, study and work that began at the end of the twentieth century and continued until we saw it with our own eyes these days and we became witnesses to the renaissance made by the Kingdom in terms of tourism, entertainment and urban life in which tourists choose it as a destination for them to fulfill and satisfy their desires for hiking and travel.

Kingdom Tower is the first step after which the march did not stop

One of the fruits that resulted in this renaissance in architecture was a giant tower that was for a long time the highest in the peninsula and construction work was completed in it very quickly and accurately and became an example of determination, perseverance and reaching the goal as well, that fruit is the Kingdom Tower or as it has recently become called the Kingdom Center Tower in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

Riyadh, which was at the beginning of the era of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia a purely industrial and practical city, it does not overlook water bodies such as the Eastern Province and does not enjoy an attractive atmosphere throughout the year such as Abha and does not include sacred religious centers such as Mecca and Medina, but it was very hot in the summer, very dry and rare rain in the winter, but good planning made it the capital of the Queen and tourism in the peninsula and the beginning was from the Kingdom Tower.

Kingdom Tower Authority and His Excellency

Kingdom Center Tower, owned by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, took three continuous years to build since 1999 to show the world this lofty high body in 2002 completed work and ready to receive visitors, which extends at a height of more than 300 meters, and includes on this extent 99 floors distributed in them activities between commercial, residential and business and all the facilities that an individual may need to visit, starting from the parking lot until the indicative signs inside the tower to know where to find what Looking for it simply and effortlessly

The tower at the top of it separates into two sides, right and left, so that the space between them becomes a triangle drawing whose base is the upper and its head down, and that base is the component of what has been called the sky tower, and it really deserves this name because of the dazzling scene that appears from above when you return to it during your tour inside the tower, the scene from there is wonderful and makes you feel that you have control over everything around you.

Kingdom Center Tower is located on King Fahd Road in the heart of the capital, Riyadh, and inside it is located with iron on the 77th floor, the second highest mosque in the world, which is the King Abdullah Mosque, which was for a period of time the highest in the world before the construction of the Khaliya Tower to become the highest mosque in the world in Burj Khalifa, followed by King Abdullah Mosque in the Kingdom Tower in Riyadh.

The streamlined design that suggests luxury, strength and simplicity at the same time made it a symbol and the most important element in the visual identity of Riyadh and even the whole Kingdom, which has become difficult to remember without thinking of the tower and its curved glass façade extending over 300 meters in length.