Skyscraper · Saudi Arabia

How much did Kingdom Centre cost to build?

The Kingdom Centre (Kingdom Tower) is the 302 m skyscraper with an inverted parabolic arch and a sky bridge in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, developed by Kingdom Holding Company of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, designed by Ellerbe Becket with Omrania, engineered by Arup and built by El Seif Engineering Contracting from 1999 to 2002. The article on illustrarch gives its cost as approximately 1.7 billion Saudi riyals (about 453 million US dollars at the time), as does the Wikipedia infobox, while WikiArquitectura says 1 billion dollars.

Reported project cost

SAR 1.7 billion

Approximately $453.33 million

Cost basis: 2002

kingdom centre in saudi arabia
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Basis of the published figure

Reported project cost2002
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Key dimensions

Heightillustrarch
302 m

Project record

Timeline

  1. 1999

    Construction started

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  2. 2002

    Completed

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