Riyadh Water Tower

Riyadh Water Tower is a 61-meter conical water tower in the al-Futah neighborhood of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It stands within al-Watan Park in the King Abdulaziz Historical Center. Designed by Swedish architect Sune Lindström and modeled after a water tower in Örebro, Sweden, it was the tallest structure in the country when it opened in 1971.

אל תפספסו

• Conical shape modeled after the Svampen water tower in Örebro, Sweden
• Two tanks: a main one holding 12,000 cubic meters of water and a smaller emergency tank of 350 cubic meters
• Located within al-Watan Park in the King Abdulaziz Historical Center
• Khazan Street in Riyadh is named after the tower

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• The tower is in the al-Futah neighborhood, inside al-Watan Park at the King Abdulaziz Historical Center.
• It was the tallest structure in Saudi Arabia when it opened in 1971.

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In the 1960s and 1970s, Riyadh lacked a water-supply network for its growing population. King Faisal's government tasked the agriculture ministry with building a water tower. Swedish architect Sune Lindström, working for the engineering company Vattenbyggnadsbyrån, designed it in 1969. The site was chosen on the ruins of a demolished casino near the Murabba Palace compound. The tower was repainted in 1997 for the centenary of the 1902 Battle of Riyadh.