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Parcels 407 and 408 are mixed-use, and are developed as one combined lot with two towers - 88 meters and 133 meters tall. The site has its longest eastern face to the Wadi, and along this edge the design has 3 levels of continuous retail and public space.

Emaar is en route to becoming one of the most valuable companies in the world by 2010.

Emaar Properties PJSC is one of the world's largest real estate companies and is rapidly evolving to become a global provider of premier lifestyles. A Dubai-based Public Joint Stock Company, Emaar is listed on the Dubai Financial Market and is part of the Dow Jones Arabia Titans Index.

In tandem with Dubai's rapid growth, Emaar has been shaping landscapes and lives in the Emirate since the company's inception in 1997. Not just building homes, Emaar develops value-added, master-planned communities that meet the homebuyers' full spectrum of lifestyle needs. A pioneer of innovative community-living concepts, Emaar is the prime mover of the Emirate's real estate and construction sector.

Goettsch Partners (GP) has been commissioned to design a new five-star, 214-key business hotel to service the new King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The project is sited on the first of 10 ‘parcels’ currently under development in the massive new master-planned district. The building comprises a 17-storey tower, a three-storey podium, and a four-storey underground structure for hotel support functions and parking. To be operated as a Wyndham property, the hotel will include a business center, executive club, signature restaurants, a lounge, and a resort-style spa and health club.

Echo architecture is a truly international design operation with offices in London, Riyadh, and Amman. Our team of designers, originating from twenty five nationalities, enables us to offer the best of international design practices combined with a board of cultural awareness and sensitivity.

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For the first time Riyadh will possess what has become the standard DNA of the contemporary city: a skyline.

The proposed office tower addresses the west corner of the site.

Barton Willmore have been successfully appointed as designers for extensive Bot