2018 · Snøhetta · Middle East
The chamber score
Mawwal in Bayati
Arabian traditional · Hejaz
A fortress of mud and a tower of glass share this scale.
An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.
Why it is here
Ithra, Snøhetta's cultural centre, a landmark of contemporary Saudi architecture.
Commission the full chamber
This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.
Ask the studio to reconstruct King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture through hope — or shift it into another corridor.
Open a commissionShift the feeling
What if King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture was rebuilt as something else?
Ask the architect
