News broke that Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture is designing Kingdom Tower, to be the world’s tallest building, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, near the Red Sea. At over 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) and a total construction area of 530,000 square meters (5.7 million…

In competition with some of the world’s greatest architects, Snøhetta has won the competition about designing Saudi Arabia’s new Cultural Center. Saudi Aramco - the world’s largest oil company - is the client. King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz set the cornerstone for the Cultural Center which will house…