The building emerges from the ground as solid as rock. The white limestone masses though firmly embedded, float effortlessly above the busy streets, untouched by this world. The balconies chiselled out of the limestone and oriented to the North, pay homage to their ancestors from the cities of Hegra and Petra.

The crowning glory of it all is The Jewel; hundreds of delicate copper wires glinting in the sunlight and stretched taut around a trapezoidal steel frame, taking centre stage against a backdrop of granite and cascading greenery. An epilogue to a story well told.

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