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Burj Rafal
Rafal Tower
Building
Completed
2014
Residential / Hotel
All-Concrete
307.9 m / 1,010 ft
68
2
474
349
1256
22
6 m/s
92,626 m² / 997,018 ft²
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Proposed
Construction Start
Completed
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The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
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Other Consultant refers to other organizations which provided significant consultation services for a building project (e.g. wind consultants, environmental consultants, fire and life safety consultants, etc).
These are firms that consult on the design of a building's façade. May often be referred to as "Cladding," "Envelope," "Exterior Wall," or "Curtain Wall" Consultant, however, for consistency CTBUH uses the term "Façade Consultant" exclusively.
Material Supplier refers to organizations which supplied significant systems/materials for a building project (e.g. elevator suppliers, facade suppliers, etc).
31 December 2014
Daniel Safarik, Antony Wood, Marty Carver & Marshall Gerometta, CTBUH
An All-Time Record 97 Buildings of 200 Meters or Higher Completed in 2014 and 2014 showed further shifts towards Asia, and also surprising developments in...
Located on busy King Fahad Road, just north of the burgeoning King Abdullah Financial District, Burj Rafal was constructed during a boom of high-rise construction which forever changed the fabric of a city which traditionally did not have tall buildings. The building boom in the process created a new market for high-rise residential living for which no such accommodations had existed before in the city of Riyadh. The Burj Rafal was the first residential condominium tower to be built in the region’s then unproven market.
The tower was designed to differentiate itself from other living options in a number of ways beyond the supertall height. At the base, the tower is set within a 20,000 square meter property which features gardens and an offset podium topped with an amenity deck. The tower’s residences share luxury services with a Kempinski Hotel located in the lower floors and were designed to accommodate the needs of Saudi Arabia’s typically large family sizes and strong cultural desire for privacy. As such, there is a higher than usual concentration of large units designed as duplexes, in which bedroom areas are vertically stacked above living spaces and separate entrances can be utilized for the family areas of the home versus those for guests and entertaining.
The design proved to be successful with 70 percent of the condominium units sold by the time the Burj Rafal’s construction had topped out. While other high-rise buildings with residential uses are now being constructed in Riyadh, Burj Rafal remains unique in not only with height, but also with its highly visible location as a standalone tower on the city’s main north-south thoroughfare.
31 December 2014
Daniel Safarik, Antony Wood, Marty Carver & Marshall Gerometta, CTBUH
An All-Time Record 97 Buildings of 200 Meters or Higher Completed in 2014 and 2014 showed further shifts towards Asia, and also surprising developments in...
31 December 2014
Daniel Safarik, Antony Wood, Marty Carver & Marshall Gerometta, CTBUH
An All-Time Record 97 Buildings of 200 Meters or Higher Completed in 2014 and 2014 showed further shifts towards Asia, and also surprising developments in...
01 April 2013
John Harris, Jones Lang LaSalle
Amid a rapidly changing cultural and economic landscape in Saudi Arabia, John Harris, co-head of Jones Lang LaSalle’s Saudi Arabia office, discusses the shifts in...
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