The Bell Tower Hotel in Mecca, with a cost of 65.438+00.74 billion yuan, has won many "Best in the World". Why is it called "absurd building" by the outside world?

The Royal Clock Tower Hotel in Mecca, also known as the Mecca Bell Tower, is a complex building located in Mecca, the Islamic holy city of Saudi Arabia, with a building height of 60 1 m and floors of * * *120th.

Although the building became the most striking building in the local area after its completion, in the process of construction, in order to coordinate the surrounding environment with the building, they leveled a nearby mountain and destroyed the fortress left over from the Ottoman era. Such a move aroused the antipathy of local residents and critics to the Royal Bell Tower Hotel, which was called "absurd building".

The Royal Bell Tower is a cuboid with dials on all sides to show the time. Each one is inlaid with 98 million glass bricks and engraved with the words "Great God" in Arabic. Each dial is 40 meters in diameter, and the clock facing the Forbidden City is 80 meters high and 65 meters wide, which is six times larger than the famous "Big Ben" on the roof of the Parliament Building in London, England. It is said that it is the largest clock in the world and can be seen from 17 km away at night.

But at that time, in order to expand the building area, a hotel was built above the castle, and some surrounding hills were all pushed down and some depressions were all filled up, thus creating a whole flat land of the hotel.

In fact, the construction of the hotel at that time also caused great controversy, especially the Turks sent special personnel to stop the demolition in order to prevent the seller from razing the castle to the ground. After all, this is the legacy of the Ottoman Empire, so it is absolutely intolerable for Turks with strong Ottoman plots to raze the sacred palace directly, but this castle is in Mecca after all, and Turks really have no right to stop the demolition of this castle.

What do you think of this world's largest hotel, which was built by razing an old castle with more than 300 years of historical relics?