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Dec26

Written by:host
12/26/2008 11:29 AM 

Skyscraping ambition for Mecca   Dec. 20, Mecca

Earlier this year Guardian's Riazat Butt revealed that the Saudi government was planning a 130-skyscraper redevelopment project in Mecca. Recently, those plans became concrete – pun intended – when it was announced that the firm of Foster and Hadid has been chosen to massively expand the mosque compound that houses the Ka'bah – Islam's holiest site and the locus of the hajj pilgrimage....more

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