Al Faisaliah Tower
Tapering steel-and-glass skyscraper crowned by a golden glass sphere with a restaurant and city views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Al Faisaliah Tower in Riyadh starts at the golden glass sphere near its summit and asks what it takes to hold it there. It follows the King Faisal Foundation's idea for the first skyscraper built in Saudi Arabia, the Foster and Partners design, and the engineers who dug into the ground beneath it at the end of the nineteen-nineties. Best heard from the plaza, where you can trace the four corner columns up toward the sphere.
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