The new Center for Knowledge and Culture in Saudi Arabia
This rendering is of the new Center for Knowledge and Culture in Saudi Arabia. It still hasn’t built but the design just got approved and it looks like something from the future. Hovering cars wouldn’t look out of place in this shot. [Link]
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Jun 29, 2008
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14 Comments, add your own...
1. kwt23 | June 29th, 2008 at 12:52 am
There are many shots of futuristic buildings and projects for the gulf countries…very few make it to the building process.
2. moose | June 29th, 2008 at 1:32 am
Rofl that wont be built it’s 7aram :D
cool if it is tho :P
3. TanGo | June 29th, 2008 at 7:53 am
at first glance i thought it’s a Zaha Hadid design
4. A E R O | June 29th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Riiiight… knowledge & culture in Saudi hum? Who are they trying to kid?
5. Musa'ad Haider | June 29th, 2008 at 9:20 am
The center of culture in a building that represents no culture in the world but pluto nash! Thats intelligent.
6. guessed | June 29th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Building for “Center of Knowledge and Culture” in Saudi.
Will that be built before the building for the “Institute for Fair and Free Elections” in Zimbabwe?
7. Komsomol | June 29th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Reminds me of the Combine Citadel from Half Life 2.
Honestly I don’t see how this represents Saudi culture in anyway, was a traditional approach deemed too boring?
8. Sunny | June 29th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Check this one out. http://www.break.com/index/dynamic-architecture-in-dubai.html
Imagine havin a penthouse in one of these babies
9. crocko rock | June 29th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Hahaha…. Knowledge and Culture?
So what, so you’ll get a guided tour of how people are still stoned to death, whipped in the streets, given no rights, segregated at birth, taught that everything in life is 7aram?
Wonderful
10. Toad | June 29th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
haha culture and knowledge
oh the irony
if only it was in kuwait…now that would make more sense
11. Bo-Bader | June 30th, 2008 at 1:35 am
The design, supposed to be desert stones, was probably to remind saudis of their practice of stoning women to death!! Seriously though, it looks futuristic and everything but it does not fit the culture. The design contradict itself. Stones, culture, knowledge…. stone age!! It is funny that westerners think about our culture by either palm trees or something completely irrelevant such as stones and sheesh kababs (Kuwait Towers).
12. BZ | June 30th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Are you all jealous of Saudi?
I bet all you haters are either 3ayam or from Iraqi roots..
Get a life… And don’t forget what Saudi did in 1990.
Show a little bit of appreciation and respect
13. crocko rock | June 30th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Hahaha….BZ
What’s to be jealous of?
The public stonings? The fact that women are treated like dogs? The muttawa whipping you in public? The fact that you’re segregated at birth?
You live in hell. It’s you who should be jealous of the rest of the world.
14. uturn | June 30th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
You are mocking a society for making a progressive move of proposing a center for knowledge and culture !!
What a bunch of retards …
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