New Saudi Arabia architecture projects with building news and architectural images, plus architects background. Saudi Arabian building news from across this Middle East country.
Benoy, the international, award-winning firm of Architects, Masterplanners, Interior and Graphic Designers, has announced a number of exciting new projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA); most recent of which is Riyadh Park.
Architect: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. Kingdom Tower to be the world’s tallest building. Construction started in April, with foundations completed in March. Building completion by 2018 deadline is highly unlikely at this point.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. With over 5 million residents, Riyadh’s population has more than doubled since 1990. To serve its fast-growing population, the city will build a new public transport system. The building will contain six platforms over four public floors and serve as a key interchange and terminus for 3 lines.
FCC, the infrastructure and environmental services group, has achieved a new milestone in international construction. The company has been awarded one of the contracts to build the Riyadh metro, Saudi Arabia.
Within a new financial district in Saudi Arabia’s capital city, the Crystal Towers are located in a unique location between the Financial Plaza – the financial centre of the masterplan – and the Wadi – a verdant pedestrian thoroughfare.
Designed by Capita Symonds on behalf of a private client, the development comprises six floors of circa 8,000 sqft open plan office space, retail units on the ground floor, and a new gymnasium and spa facility.
Designs by the joint venture (JV) team Foster + Partners and Buro Happold, in collaboration with local architect Dar Al Riyadh, revealed for four major new stations along the state-of-the-art Haramain High-speed Railway (HHR).
The Arc is an attempt to achieve a delicate balance between two disparate, but not necessarily conflicting, conceptual notions: the practical, systematic, economical and marketable qualities that the physical rational component of a rentable office building.
FXFOWLE has six active projects within the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD), a new 55 million-square-foot mixed-use urban community located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
KAUST Thuwal: The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected five recipients to receive the 2011 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards.
Jenan City Design Concept: Ingenium’s NORR division reveals design for the largest privately owned mixed use development in Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The Program & Site For his new mansion in Jeddah, the client’s ambition was to enjoy modern architectural qualities of a contemporary house such as space openness, transparency, sculptural geometry and slick materials.
As the epicenter of Riyadh’s burgeoning financial sector, over 40 towers will define the new King Abdullah Financial District. The development undertaken by Rayadah Investment Company forms a modern business district.
The King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) is a large, mixed use development in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The goal of KAFD is to establish a mixed-use community that integrates business and recreational activities for Riyadh’s growing financial workforce.
Developer: Saudi Binladin Company, one of the largest construction firms in the Arab world. Saudi Binladin Company oversaw the expansion of the holy mosques in Mecca and Medina. The company was set up by Mohammed bin Laden.
Designed by American architect Marshall Strabala, the King Abdullah Economic City is a major mixed use business center totaling 1.1 million square meters (12 million square feet) to be built in western Saudi Arabia.
Urban Art Projects (UAP) has completed the 60 metre high ‘Breakwater Beacon’, the centre piece of a new US$7 billion world-class research institution for KAUST located at Thuwal Point.