MECCA | Rawabi Abraj Al Bait | +300m x 4 | +984ft x 4 | 32-66 fl x 21 | Prep

GulfArabia said:

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"Islamic Architectural Masterpiece" :lol:

well it hardly has anything to do with islamic architecture.
and it is anything but a masterpiece.

GulfArabia said:

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Based on this model, look like only 2 towers will be @300m.

i actually like this, its sheer collossal size gives it a beauty... that podium is just unbelievably massive. it would also dwarf the largest building in the world by floor space by over 1200000 square metres(1.2 sqkm) (beating Dubai International Airport Terminal 3).

this thing has been at the edges of the radar for some years and it is a building i am very excited about.

flygon said:

Too dense!

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Have to be... the whole area will redefine the expresion "Highrise density" (not only this project)

I guess everyone want to build as much as they can at walking distance to the mosque.

-another render, without all the helipads:

this project is under construction already

GulfArabia said:

this is Abraj Ab Bait Rawabi (behind abraj al bait) under construction:

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i think that the underconstuction picture is of Jabal Omar project which adds more than 150,000 worshippers to the mosque in its prayer halls:

The development is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2011, and is part of Makkah Development Authority’s plan to develop Makkah’s central region by 2020.






Jabal Omar, Makkah Al Mokarramah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
CLIENT: Jabal Omar Development Company
APPROX.VALUE: USD 3,200,000,000

The project will have 39 multiple-use residential and hotel towers with heights ranging from 20 to 48 stories while taking into consideration the increasing gradual elevation the from the grand mosque outward. The gross built-up area for the project is around 1.8 million square meters of which 30% is dedicated for public utilities and services. When completed, this mega complex of Towers and public courtyards will accommodate nearly 45,000 residents and 150,000 worshippers during peak periods.
GPME’s role would be to analyze all information flow channels and recommend the minimum IT requirements necessary to accommodate the large volumes of data that will be generated through the course of carrying out the project. Moreover, GPME will take on the responsibility of installing/configuring the servers and software in addition to customizing the backup database.

This is under construction right now and right next to Abraj al bait Rawabi but i'm not sure if there is a supertall here to create a thread for it yet ...

this pic was shot a few months ago

droneriot said:

That leaves that "Drb Al Khlel" segment on the map, what's that?

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Drb Al Khalil.







Jabal Khandama Development.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=203203





U/C l West Gate.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=523938&highlight=mecca









Cut Services to 535 properties to preparation for removal to King Abdulaziz Road tomorrow

26/12/2009
Abdullah Aldahas -Makkah

Google Translator
Start the competent authorities in the capital from the holy tomorrow (Sunday) in the separation of water, electricity and telephone to (535) residential properties located within the first phase of the demolition and removal of property that fall within the scope of King Abdulaziz, who is one of the pilot projects for slum rarefaction in Makkah, and the company has set implemented in three phases to complete the project within three full years beginning with the start of the first phase, which include the removal of approximately (3700) of residential property.
Will begin the work of demolition and removal, and the twenty-fifth day of the month of Muharram, the current initial phase of the project, which includes real estate in the west of the Jabal Omar Street, and even take them.
The school administrators Sulaiman bin Abdul Malik medium and medium-Arafat
Shiba and primary and Ali ibn Abi Talib Primary School for Boys, located in the neighborhood Hafayer filed an application to the Center for the supervision of the center in Makkah to find out their status with near the services chapter, pointing out that these schools are located within the first phase of the project, which means that these schools will be transferred to other neighborhoods in the evening

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Makkah real estate development lunched the largest real estate development for the development of slums

Al-Riyadh 22/12/2009

Google Translator
Proceed with the development of Makkah, real estate development next week of the first stage of a project on King Abdulaziz Road, thanks to all the services of more than 1200 drug will start with the demolition and removal in the twenty-fifth of this month, where the Declaration of His Royal Highness Prince Khalid Al-Faisal bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Mecca region Mecca actual beginning of the project. The company that developed the implementation of the project will last for three years and will be on three stages, "the first phase (a) of the project is the area west of the Jabal Omar Street up and dragged by a number of properties removed 535 properties with a total area of about 176 thousand square meters, and the stage I (b) is the neighborhood located west of St. Zharrin Abdullah Arif until the third ring road and is the number of properties removed 698 properties, a total area of 289 thousand square meters.

The first phase (c) is an area mosque, King Abdullah and a demilitarized zone where the number of real estate 601 total area of 130 thousand square meters, and the second phase is the implementation of the southern route of the project and a number of real estate properties expropriated in 1021 a total area of 226 thousand square meters, The third phase will disarm the rest of the property in the project, King Abdullah mosque to the east and dragged Street Mosque King Abdullah Arif Abdullah Street to the west, where will the number of real estate at this stage to 848 properties on a total area of about 381 thousand square meters.

The project of the King Abdulaziz first project to be implemented in Makkah in treatment programs and the development of slums in Mecca and a model in the development of slums in the capital through the opening of the holy major axes of radiation will contribute to remove many of the dilemmas of traffic and transport for the next move from the airport, King Abdulaziz, Jeddah Islamic Port in addition to the development of a number of slums in Makkah, which is going through its course automatically and works to improve them, physically, socially and security in accordance with the command

Royal, where the project will pass a number of slums has seen the Preparatory Committee of the treatment and the development of slums in Mecca that the project includes the King Abdulaziz Road slum next to it.

Referred to as the real estate expropriated by the King Abdulaziz about 3703 real estate value of damages of up to about 6 billion riyals where the procedures of 70% of the property expropriated as a prelude to vacate and demolish them.

:cheers:

OLD SATELITE IMAGE OF MAKKAH





NEW (2008)



the high rise buildings which were built in the 80's and 70's are all demolished and being replaced