How do you keep the structure as light as possible? And how do you deal with the toughest logistical challenge of all: a construction site out of bounds to everyone but Muslims. As the pressure mounts, the team battle to construct the world’s largest clock at dizzying heights and in racing winds. The team enters the project with a high-rise building already under construction, a tower not designed to support a 150-meter-high clock tower and a strict weight limit of 82,000 tons. Courtesy of SL Rasch Mecca, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, completed 2012 601 m/ 1,972 ft/ 120 floors Developer: Saudi Bin Laden Group Architect of the hotel: Dar Al-Handasah (Shair and Partners) Architect and Structural Engineer of the Clock Tower: SL Rasch G.F.A: 5. Together with its partners, the architecture firm SL Rasch in Germany faces some unusual challenges. Makkah Royal Clock Tower Photograph of the Makkah Clock Tower Complex. The Central Tower (Makkah Clock Tower) of the complex stands 601 meters (1972 feet) tall and has 120 floors, as of 2023 it's the 4th tallest building among all the completed and topped out buildings around the world, only after Burj Khalifa, Merdeka 118, and. At the end of construction it is clear that the building at the center of the sacred site breaks over 30 world records. From the following picture we can see how close the Makkah Clock Tower is from the Kabaa. On its top four floors is a museum known as the Clock Tower. The minute hand measures 23 meters in length and its giant clock face is 43 meters in diameter – therefore this gigantic clock tower is 35 times larger than Big Ben. Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower is a complex of skyscraper hotels located in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. This canvas has an inbuilt light that shows as stars in the sky. The time shown by the clock can be read from a distance of 17 kilometers.
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It is a construction project full of superlatives: the world’s largest tower clock in Mecca, the Holy City of Islam. Download stock pictures of Makkah clock tower on Depositphotos Photo stock for commercial use - millions of high-quality, royalty-free photos & images. A beautiful canvas with an image of the clock tower overlooking the Makkah Haram at night. The clock tower in Mecca is the highest clock tower in the world. Explore the engineering breakthroughs and fascinating story behind the design and construction of the world`s largest clock tower.
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