Look east from the hilly vantage of the King Saud University Stadium, and the skyline is dominated by the skyscrapers of central Riyadh, each having outgrown one another over the years.
CRAIG HOPE IN RIYADH: At a neck-straining 1,264ft, it is this city s tallest building, a prestige reserved only for the most principal institutions in a capital of incalculable wealth.