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RIBAJ Gulf Issue

Welcome to the first special issue of RIBAJ on the Gulf, covering outstanding new buildings, important voices and emerging ideas from across the region

Find out more about RIBA Gulf

Read more about RIBA Gulf and work across seven Gulf countries, including the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the Sultanate of Oman and Jordan or hear more about RIBA's activity whilst at Cityscape Global 2024. 

 

Architecture in the Gulf

Exploitation of this traditional and plentiful material is opening opportunities in the region, ticking all the environmental and heritage boxes while scoring highly on aesthetics too

Traditional material scores highly on heritage and aesthetics too

As Abu Dhabi’s new desert city reaches maturity, its commitment to net-zero makes it both a test-bed for the world’s carbon ambitions

The city is both test-bed and exemplar for net-zero carbon ambitions

Zaha Hadid Architects’ King Abdullah Financial District station, one of the icons of Riyadh’s transformative metro project, has the dramatic flourishes to lift the whole city

King Abdullah Financial District station has the dramatic flourishes to lift the whole city

Buildings interspersed with gardens gave the city’s 1970s Sport and Recreation Centre room to move and grow

Gardens and arcades supplied future flexibility

Twentieth century erosion of the traditional way of life and buildings in this Jeddah district is being countered in Allies and Morrison’s masterplan to restore and sensitively develop

Allies and Morrison restores and builds on tradition

Latest

Create an object, installation, building or urban intervention that plays on the idea of scale, to create wonder, drama or even shock. Using SterlingOSB Zero as a material for transforming spatial perception, you could win £2,500

Competition: create an object, installation, building or urban intervention that plays on the idea of scale, to create wonder, drama or even shock

Nicola Sharkey, UK insights and research lead at Gleeds, advises on product costs for envelope and cladding materials

Nicola Sharkey, UK insights and research lead at Gleeds, advises on envelope and cladding product costs

25 March 2025 from 9 am

RIBAJ Spec Design for Sustainability Webinar

Create a new permanent nature gallery for young visitors, design urban streetscapes for a UAE city, win a spot on a UK university estates framework - some of the latest architecture contracts and competitions from across the industry

Latest: Museum exhibition design

Almost a quarter of a century after Li Xinggang came to prominence as Herzog & de Meuron’s collaborator on the National Stadium for the Beijing Olympics, the RIBA is hosting the first London retrospective of the acclaimed architect

The RIBA hosts a retrospective of acclaimed Chinese architect Li Xinggang