Al Faisaliah Tower

Abraj Al Bait.^[4] The tower is named after King Faisal bin Abdulaziz,^[5] and presently ranks as the 325th tallest building in the world.^[6]

Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal,^[3] with construction begun in 1997. The complex is made up of the central office tower, a five-star hotel, a three-storey retail mall, and a banqueting and conference hall. The skyscraper comprises 30 floors of office space, above which, at 200 metres above ground level, an observation deck provides a panoramic view of Riyadh. The 240,000-square-metre Centre was completed in May 2000, with the skyscraper opened to the public in the same month.^[7]

Chep Lap Kok airports, was commissioned to design a 22,000 sq. ft. wall of glass for the modular atrial space connecting the complex's hotel, north of the tower's base, and the tower's residential and retail developments.^[8] Clarke's initial designs for the project, produced in 1994 and incorporating traditionally-leaded stained glass and an interrelated glass mosaic floor for what was then known as 'The Link Building', developed in tandem with the architect's resolution of the complex,^[9] and were resolved as an integral, five-storey-high glass art 'skin', considered a landmark development in the history of stained glass.^[10][11]