![]() Other buildings in the top 10 for height include the Lotte World Tower (South Korea), One World Trade Center (USA), and Guangzhou CTF Finance Center (China). The Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower is a mere 7 feet taller than the Ping An Finance Center in China, which ranks fourth worldwide. The 120-storey Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower, at 1,972 feet tall, is the third-largest building in the world behind the Burj Khalifa and China’s Shanghai Tower (2,073 feet tall). The 77-storey Capital Market Authority Headquarters in Riyadh is 1,263 feet tall, but the kingdom’s most spectacular and tallest structure is the Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower in Mecca. Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, also boasts some of the world’s tallest buildings. Dubai is also home to Marina 101, a 1,422-feet-tall residential skyscraper, and the 1,358-feet-tall Princess Tower, both of which are among the 25 tallest buildings in the world. The Burj Khalifa in Dubai, for instance, extends 2,722 feet into the sky and is the tallest building in the world. Many of these luxury five star hotels in the Abraj Al Bait complex offer panoramic views over Al Masjid Al Haram and won awards from the Welcome Saudi Hotel Awards.The Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has a booming construction sector buoyed by some of the tallest and most impressive structures in the world.
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