We took a long drive around north Riyadh on Saturday to see some of the buildings up there. Our first destination was the Burj Rafal Hotel Kempinski, which I had seen pictures of and which we found, but there was also a lot more interesting architecture up that way. Unfortunately, since I’m pretty much limited to shooting from the car right now because of my broken toe, many of the shots aren’t the best. It’s sort of comical, really – you can’t stop on most of the roads, so I have to get a distant view through the windshield, with often poor focus or color results (and the same boring perspective), or try to take the picture out my window, which is usually too close and results in cut off buildings or horrible distortion. In any case, I did get some, which is better than nothing at all to post!

This building, on the way to the Kempinski, is not showy like some of the others but is quite big and impressive, and is still under construction.

Last view of the beautiful DQ building, posted earlier: