Riyadh City Center
http://www.bayoudia.de/Fotos/Al%20Faisaliah1.jpg

http://www.bayoudia.de/Fotos/King%20Faisal%20Foundation1.jpg

http://www.bayoudia.de/Fotos/Al%20Faisaliah3.jpg

http://www.bayoudia.de/Fotos/Kingdom%20Center3.jpg

http://www.bayoudia.de/Fotos/Carrera%20GT.jpg

Old Riyadh
http://www.bayoudia.de/Fotos/Diraiyah1.jpg

http://www.bayoudia.de/Fotos/Diraiyah5.jpg

http://www.bayoudia.de/Fotos/Diraiyah7.jpg


http://www.bayoudia.de/Fotos/Diraiyah9.jpg

Riyadh Suburbs
These are some pictures of a Riyadh middle-class residential neighborhood
http://artcorey.com/riyhouses/photos/31.jpg

http://artcorey.com/riyhouses/photos/30.jpg

http://artcorey.com/riyhouses/photos/27.jpg

http://artcorey.com/riyhouses/photos/26.jpg

http://artcorey.com/riyhouses/photos/25.jpg

http://artcorey.com/riyhouses/photos/15.jpg

http://artcorey.com/riyhouses/photos/14.jpg

http://artcorey.com/riyhouses/photos/13.jpg

http://artcorey.com/riyhouses/photos/07.jpg

nice pics thought the pics about old riyadh arent really old they have been renovated i hear, some were raised and re-built.
here is old pics of old places.

http://www.wheelerfolk.org/military/15old/15_18old.jpg
http://www.wheelerfolk.org/military/15old/15_11old.jpg
http://www.wheelerfolk.org/military/15old/15_22old.jpg

http://www.wheelerfolk.org/military/15old/15_19old.jpg

here is more pictures.

http://www.wheelerfolk.org/military/15old/15_01old.jpg
http://www.wheelerfolk.org/military/15old/15_17old.jpg
http://www.wheelerfolk.org/military/15old/15_20old.jpg
http://www.wheelerfolk.org/military/15old/15_21old.jpg

there is a website in arabic that has a lot of info about old riyadh and pics does anyone know about it? i konw it was owned by the goverment.

Here is the pictures of the place in the past and under it the same place but in the present.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/971371/before1.jpg
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/971371/After1.jpg

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/971371/before2.jpg
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/971371/after2.jpg

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/971371/before4.jpg
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/971371/after4.jpg

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/971371/before6.jpg
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/971371/after6.jpg

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/971371/before8.jpg
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/971371/after8.jpg

Kingdom tower

http://img187.exs.cx/img187/8499/kingdomcentre211lk.jpg

http://www.confluence.org/sa/all/n26e045/pic6.jpg

Great! pictures Nazrey wow the first one is sooo beautiful!

How much did the kingdom center cost?

Nice pictures of Riyadh!!
Saudi houses have really nice touch but the high walls block the scenes.

How much did the kingdom center cost?

I think it was $200-250 millions!

Hey, SkyFan you do have a point, most of Saudi Arabia's luxury developments are its houses, and they are all hiden by tall walls. As for Kingdom Centre, I think it cost 320 million dollars.

I was looking at the pictures posted in this Thread, and it struck me at just how fast this country (and GULF REGION) has changed in the past thirty years. I mean for example...(and I'm sorry if I offend someone), but the pictures that Anas Anani posted about old Riyadh...well, made me think, the city (sorry to say) looked like Afghanistan 30 years ago. Today, this city is catagorized as one of the world's ultra-modern urban centers (the same goes for Dubai, Manama, Jeddah, Doha, Kuwait etc.)

hmm... why are almost all the lots around the kingdom center empty? cost too much?.. cause its not fun to have desert empty lots around it they should build parks. to suit the building or other skyscrapers. Too bad saudis dont like living an appartments and prefer houses or it would have been a skycraper city :D

^ a really cool all-glass building has been planned for one of those plots... they have the rendering on the site location... infact, the construction might have even started by now! I could've taken a picture of it but the fear of getting caught for taking pictures next to a sky scraper stopped me short.

LOL, I know what you mean. When I went to Saudi this christmas break. I wanted to go around and take pictures of the palaces around our compound and the new high-rises in downtown. Well i managed to grab a few, NOT AS MANY AS I WANTED. My parent almost had a heart attack, when they heard that I went outside the compound and just walked around taking pictures. I REALLY WANTED TO SHOW MY FRIENDS BACK HERE IN THE US HOW RICH AND NICE THE COUNTRY IS.

I mean look at this....where on earth do you see such cars on the highways other than in the GULF
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/jwakim/cars.jpg

very nice :okay:

Nice pics, thought Its very dangerous to leave the compound man, yesterday a french man got killed in a shopping mall in riyadh, because he was a foreigner, the locals are becoming more and more hostile, its best to wear a disguse ;).

yesterday a french man got killed in a shopping mall in riyadh, because he was a foreigner, the locals are becoming more and more hostile, its best to wear a disguse ;).

LIAR :bash:

Liar,,,, man Serious you should read more news! did you forget about last weeks attaks in jeddah and riyadh?

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/60AB2AAC-7F0B-475A-AFB6-D67B18209CEA.htm

The kinda news Skyfan ignores, NO!! Saudi arabia isnt a safe country!

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/694/re1.htm

CNN made a reportage called Saudi Arabia Kingdom on the brink, you should watch it!

its very dangreous in saudi these days. There was a time when every thing was so safe and peaceful. but now those days are gone.

Raza, Looks like you know the whereabouts of Saudi :D are you saudi?

Lol. no man, but i lived there 12 years, in Riyadh.

yesterday a french man got killed in a shopping mall in riyadh

This IS what you said.
Stand up to your word and PROVE it.

Prove that a French man was killed in a shopping mall in Riyadh yesterday. Go look up in any world news agency. If you can't then you'll remain a LIAR!!


And please, stop giving the world an ugly false image of Saudi Arabia.

Anas Anani, there was no French man killed in Riyadh. The only French person to have died in Saudi, was in Jeddah, and that was back during summer, when everyone thought all hell was going to break out. But the authorities have gotten on top of the situation, and I personally think that its going to be pretty calm now. The security is still going to be very tight, but I'm not seeing any violence any time soon (AT LEAST I HOPE).

Raza, for a non-Saudi, I would say you should stay quite. Its not your country, and not your government, so its no place for you to go around and incite hatred towards the Royal Family. If you have nothinig constructive to say, then say nothing.

Lol. no man, but i lived there 12 years, in Riyadh.
Where are you originaly from?

Raza, for a non-Saudi, I would say you should stay quite. Its not your country, and not your government, so its no place for you to go around and incite hatred towards the Royal Family. If you have nothinig constructive to say, then say nothing.


Saudi Dunes you should as well! because you arent saudi and you will never wil be! Saudi Arabia is supposed to be an islamic country and in an islamic country all muslims are allowed to tell their opinion! You just supported dictatorship!

Thanks Anas, you really know how to make people feel welcome in your country. I was only trying to limit the conversation to constructive argument, and not have foreigners disgrace the royal family.

lets just leave those political arguments and all will be well

Yea sure, lets leave them aside, since you failed to prove what you said.

PS
Saudi Dunes, your opinions are welcomed to a 100% Saudi ;)

hey those are very nice pics...

saudis are filthy rich. look at the houses, and those are just middle class houses, all the rich people live in huge palaces.

Hey kong, if you'd like we can arrange for you to work in a middle class house, that is since your so sure that every middle classmen in saudi has this life !