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University of Moscow


Height: 240m
Location: Moscow
Year: 1755
University of Moscow

Kingdom Centre


Height: 302m
Location: Riyadh
Year: 2002
Kingdom Centre

University of Moscow vs Kingdom Centre


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University of Moscow

University of Moscow

Height

240m
Floors0
Year1755
CityMoscow

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The main building of Moscow State University (in Russian ???????? ??????? ???) a 240-metre (790 ft), 36-level (in its central part) skyscraper in Moscow, Russia. Designed by Lev Rudnev as the headquarters of Moscow State University, it is the tallest of seven Moscow skyscrapers in the Stalinist architectural style constructed between 1947 and 1953.



It was before 1990 the tallest building in Europe; it remains the tallest educational building in the world.

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Kingdom Centre

Kingdom Centre

Height

302m
Floors41
Year2002
CityRiyadh

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Kingdom Centre (Arabic: ???? ????????) is a 99-story, 302.3 m (992 ft) skyscraper in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. When completed in 2002, it overtook the 267-meter Faisaliyah Tower as the tallest tower in Saudi Arabia. It has since been surpassed and has become the fifth-tallest skyscraper in the nation, whose tallest two buildings are the Abraj Al Bait Towers and the Capital Market Authority Tower. It is the world's third-tallest building with a hole following the Shanghai World Financial Center and the 85 Sky Tower in Taiwan. The mixed-use tower was created by Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal and designed by the group of Ellerbe Becket and Omrania, who were selected through an international design competition. It is situated on a 100,000--square-metre website and houses the 57,000-square-meter Al-Mamlaka shopping mall, offices, the Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh, and luxury apartments. There is a 65m skybridge atop the skyscraper.The upper third of the tower features an inverted parabolic arch topped by a public sky bridge. The sky bridge is a 300-ton steel construction, taking the kind of an enclosed corridor with windows on either side. After paying the entrance fees, visitors take two elevators to reach that level.

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