Mukaab will be the cornerstone of the New Murabba project, a pharaonic Saudi project that aims to redefine mega-construction.
If the United Arab Emirates wants to be the new capital of skyscrapers, Saudi Arabia seeks to go further: the capital of megaprojects in general. The line, with which they have already had to take the cable, is perhaps their most ambitious project, but they also have on their roadmap the imposing Riyadh airport, a skyscraper of more than 1,000 meters and another of 2,000 meters, among many other constructions.
One of them is in progress and it’s something hard to imagine: a cube of 400 x 400 meters in which 20 buildings like the Empire State Building could fit.
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Mukaab. This is the name of the building in question and, although the rendered images show an imposing construction, the truth is that it is difficult to get an idea of the dimensions that this cubic skyscraper will have when completed. The Mukaab will be 400 meters high, 400 meters wide and 400 meters long. The aim of this particular shape is to make the most of every centimeter inside.
The idea is to make it a sort of city in itself, with 400,000 square meters of commercial, residential and entertainment space, interior gardens and, at the center of it all, a spiral-shaped tower. A city in a cube, in short, with its own system of…
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