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Le Parc Tower


Height: 158m
Location: Buenos Aires
Year: 2003
Le Parc Tower

Mecca Royal Clock Tower


Height: 601m
Location: Mecca
Year: 2012
Mecca Royal Clock Tower

Le Parc Tower vs Mecca Royal Clock Tower


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Le Parc Tower

Le Parc Tower

Height

158m
Floors51
Year2003
CityBuenos Aires

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Le Parc Tower is a high-rise Construction Situated in the block bounded by Avenida Cerviño, Gody Cruz, Demaria and Fray Justo Santamaria de Oro in the Area of Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

This luxury residential construction developed between 1991 and 1995 by RAGHSA SA was designed by Mario Roberto Álvarez and Associates.



51 floors and 158 meters (518 feet) tall, it was the tallest residential building in the nation between its completion in 1995 and the completion of the first of two El Faro towers in 2003.

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Mecca Royal Clock Tower

Mecca Royal Clock Tower

Height

601m
Floors120
Year2012
CityMecca

Informations

The Abraj Al-Bait (Arabic: ????? ??????, romanized: ?Abr?? al-Bayt 'Towers of the House') is a government-owned complex of seven skyscraper hotels in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. These towers are a part of the King Abdulaziz Endowment Project which aims to update the city in catering to its pilgrims. The central hotel tower, the Makkah Royal Clock Tower, has the world's largest clock face and is the third-tallest building and fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the world. The clock tower comprises the Clock Tower Museum which occupies the top four floors of the tower.The building complex is metres away from the world's largest mosque and Islam's most sacred site, the Great Mosque of Mecca. The developer and builder of this complex is that the Saudi Binladin Group, the Kingdom's largest construction firm. It's the world's second most expensive building with the whole cost of construction totalling US$15 billion. The complex was built after the demolition of the Ajyad Fortress, the 18th-century Ottoman citadel on top of a hill overlooking the Grand Mosque. The destruction of the historically important site in 2002 from the Saudi authorities sparked international outcry and a powerful response from Turkey.

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