Mecca Royal Clock Tower vs Isla Multiespacio

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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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The Isla Multiespacio Complex (abbreviated IME) is among the most ambitious architectural projects of recent years in Venezuela. This is currently under construction in the Municipality of San Diego in Valencia, Carabobo State (Venezuela). Its construction started in July 2009 and is expected to be completed in 2018. From the Isla Multiespacio stands the highest office tower in the Midwest, the skyscraper would be 142 m initially but then they decided to increase the height to 245 m and 65 flooring, it's the tallest building in Venezuela, built the first private theater in the nation and a hotel designed for guests with joy social areas looking at the city from above, among other projects.

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