The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia WILL HOST the WORLD FAIR EXPO 2030 in RIYADH; 2034 FIFA WORLD CUP, Saudi VISION 2030 with 14 GIGA Projects.
EXPO 2030 WORLD FAIR in SAUDI ARABIA
“ PARIS, Nov 28, 2023 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh won the right to host the Expo 2030 world fair, vote results showed on Tuesday, in another diplomatic victory for a Gulf country after the Qatar soccer World Cup last year. South Korea’s Busan and Italy’s Rome were also in the running to host the world fair, a five-yearly event that attracts millions of visitors and billions of dollars in investment.
Riyadh won 119 votes, Busan 29 and Rome 17, results from 182 members of the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) showed. Saudi Arabia needed to garner two thirds of the votes to win from the first round.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/saudi-arabia-beats-italy-south-korea-host-2030-world-fair-2023-11-28
Riyadh to host2030 World Expo in latest success | kuwaittimes
2034 FIFA WORLD CUP
GENEVA — Saudi Arabia is all but certain to host the men’s 2034 World Cup after the Australian soccer federation declined to enter the bidding contest. GENEVA — Saudi Arabia is all but certain to host the men’s 2034 World Cup after the Australian soccer federation declined to enter the bidding contest.
https://time.com/6330112/saudi-arabia-likely-fifa-world-cup-host-2034/
The 14 GIGA- PROJECTS are designed to stimulate the economy and their benefits are expected to expand significantly beyond the real estate and infrastructure sectors, helping to diversify the economy away from oil, especially given their sheer scale. They support the Kingdom’s economic transformation efforts and promote investments in several sectors, while achieving high returns over the medium and long terms.
Saudi Arabia is currently undergoing a massive development program and while Neom is very well known, it is only one of 14 giga projects in the country.
Developed as part of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s Vision 2030 plan to transform the country, the series of giant developments, many of which were on display at the Cityscape conference in Riyadh, are known as giga projects.
Each is huge in scale and ambition, and many are directly funded by the country’s sovereign wealth fund – the Public Investment Fund. Others, such as the Mohammed bin Salman Non-profit City, are funded by the crown prince himself.
Several of the giga projects are traditional developments restricted to a single, albeit usually huge, site. These include Masar in Makkah (known widely as Mecca), the Jeddah Central Project in Jeddah and King Salman Park in Riyadh.
Other giga projects are spread across numerous sites, including projects headed up by Saudi Downtown Company, which is aiming to create downtowns in 12 cities across the kingdom, and property developer Roshn, which has a mission to build 400,000 homes across Saudi.
Numerous western starchitects are designing schemes for the giga projects; these include Zaha Hadid Architects, Ricardo Bofill, Heatherwick Studio, BIG, Foster + Partners, Jean Nouvel, LAVA, Morphogenis, Adjaye Associates, Henning Larsen, and SOM.
Below are details of EACH of the 14 GIGA PROJECTS : NEOM, ROSHN, RED SEA Project, DIRIYAH, KING SALMAN PARK, JEDDAH CENTRAL, QIDDIYA Project, MURABBA, SAUDI DOWNTOWN, MASAR, AL’ULA, King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD), Mohammed bin Salman Non-profit City (MISK), and SEVEN.
- Neom
Undoubtedly the best-known of the Saudi giga projects, Neom is the largest and also most controversial scheme being developed in the kingdom.
Encompassing an area of around 10,200 square miles, Neom will consist of 10 regions, of which four have been announced so far, including a 170-kilometre-long city called The Line (pictured). Along with The Line, the planned regions include an octagon-shaped port city named Oxagon, a ski resort named Trojena and an island resort called Sindalah.
Architecture studios working on the project include US studio Morphosis, Peter Cook‘s studio CHAP, Danish studio BIG, UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects, Dutch practices Mecanoo and UNStudio, US studio Aedas, German studio LAVA and Australian studio Bureau Proberts.
2. Roshn
Although not as well-known as Neom, Roshn is equally ambitious. The company set up by the Public Investment Fund’s core task is to increase the rate of home ownership in Saudi Arabia to 70 per cent by 2030. To do this, it has set the target of building 400,000 homes.
The Roshn project is already in progress and has already built 6,000 homes with 27,000 currently under construction. The project will also see the construction of 850 mosques, 2,400 schools and the planting of one million trees.
3. Red Sea Project
Another highly publicized scheme, the Red Sea Project, will see areas of the country’s coast developed into resorts as a key part of the country’s focus on increasing tourism. Owned by the Public Investment Fund, the project consists of two distinct developments called The Red Sea and Amaala.
The project will include an airport designed by UK studio Foster + Partners, which is being built around 15 kilometers inland from the coast.
The studio is heavily involved in the development. It is designing several hotels, including a ring-shaped hotel on stilts and the Coral Bloom island resort (pictured) as well as a hotel among the Saudi Arabian sand dunes. Foster + Partners is also designing a coral-reef-like Marine Life Institute at the Amaala resort.
Other studios working on the project include Kengo Kuma and Associates, which is designing 100 holiday villas.
4. Diriyah
The seven-square-kilometer Diriyah development in the west of Riyadh is centered on the At-Turaif UNESCO World Heritage Site – a mud-brick city that was the original home of the Al Saud family and is known as the “birthplace of the kingdom”.
Led by hotel veteran Jerry Inzerillo, the $63.2 billion development project funded by the Public Investment Fund aims to turn the site into a culture-led tourism destination. When complete, the district will contain 38 hotels, six museums and 26 other cultural attractions.
The first phase of the redevelopment – the Bujairi Terrace premium dining district, which contains 21 restaurants overlooking the mud city – opened at the end of last year.
Onward & Upward towards, One People, One Nation, One Destiny.
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/09/19/saudi-arabias-giga-projects/
