Al-Faisaliyah Tower

Al-Faisaliyah Tower


This is my 4th time visiting this place. I always discover something new there :D. Hope you like it. And my apologizes for not being active as I was very busy during this week.

Location: King Fahad Road, Olaya, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

About: (If you are interested)
- Architect: Norman Foster and Partners
- Contractor: Bin Laden Construction Company
- Client: King Faisal Foundation
- Consultants: Buro Happold, Brian Clarke, Sandy Brown Associates, WET design.
- Date: 1994-2000
- Building Type: Multipurpose, Office, Retail, Hotel & Restaurant, Commercial.
- Height: 267m 30 Floors above ground of 44 Floors Total
- Site area: 25,000.00㎡
- Building area: 12,980.00㎡
- Total floor area: 70,190.00㎡
- Architectural Style: Structural Expressionism (High-Tech Architecture). It's an incorporating elements of high-tech industry and technology into building design, including the prominent display of the building's technical and functional components, and an orderly arrangement and use of pre-fabricated elements. Moreover, Glass walls and steel frames were also immensely popular.
- Structure Material: Reinforced concrete & Steel columns.
- Structure System: It's based on a square plan with four wishbone-shaped concrete bow-string arches columns at the corners which define the upward curve.
The braces collect forces from intermediate concrete floors and transfer them to corner columns, allowing more weak columns to be used. To control distorting deflections, the K-braces combined with tie-beams which were sequentially post-tensioned as construction proceeded upwards.
- Environmental Design:
The facade is protected from glare and solar heat gain (due to the solar reflection of sun) by deep aerofoil-shaped Aluminium blades fixed to it with projecting brackets.
At the top of the Tower, spaces between arch and beam structure have been designed to integrate ceiling, lighting and air diffuser system
There is thermal ice storage. i.e. Ice is created and stored at night in a rock chamber and used to cool interior spaces during the heat of the afternoon

The Shot:
Nikon D90
Nikkor Wide Lens 10-24mm
Manual Mood
f/6.1
1/30 sec.
iso 250

Software:
: : Lightroom:
- Crop 1:1
- Processed in RAW using a Preset made by me :)
: : Photoshop :
- Final Processing (Canvas and Signature).

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