with an undulating lattice facade, zaha hadid architects’ metro station opens in riyadh

 

project info:

 

name: King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) Metro Station

architecture: Zaha Hadid Architects | @zahahadidarchitects

location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

completion: December 1st, 2024 (public opening)

photography: © Hufton + Crow Photography | @huftonandcrow

 

ZHA design: Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher

ZHA project principal: Gianluca Racana

ZHA project director: Filippo Innocenti

ZHA project architect: Gian Luca Barone

ZHA project associate: Fulvio Wirz

ZHA construction support leads: Marco Amoroso, Domenico di Francesco

ZHA construction support services: Vincenzo Caputo, Abdel Halim Chehab, Marko Gligorov,

Stefano Iacopini

ZHA project team: Marco Amoroso, Vincenzo Caputo, Abdel Halim Chehab, Lee Cubeddu,

Rawan Al-Derjem, Domenico Di Francesco, David Fogliano, Manuele Gaioni, Marko Gligorov,

Subharthi Guha, Alexandros Kallegias, Lisa Kinnerud, Alexandre Kuroda, Stefano Iacopini,

Carolina López-Blanco, Jamie Mann, Mohammadali Mirzaei, Arian Hakimi Nejad, David

Wolthers, Nicola McConnell, Mario Mattia, Massimo Napoleoni, Niki Okala, Carlos Parraga-

Botero, Sohith Perera, Izis Salvador Pinto, Carine Posner, Neil Rigden, Paola Salcedo, Nima

Shoja, Thomas Sonder, Vincenzo Reale, Kate Revyakina, Roberto Vangeli, Seungho Yeo

ZHA competition team: Alexandre Kuroda, Fei Wang, Lisa Kinnerud, Jorge Mendez-Caceres

 

structural engineer: BuroHappold

building services engineer: BuroHappold

transport & civil engineers: BuroHappold

fire protection & life safety engineer: BuroHappold

people flow: BuroHappold

acoustic consultant: BuroHappold

sustainability consultant: BuroHappold

lighting consultant: BuroHappold

facade engineering: Newtecnic

design management: AECOM

specification consultant: AECOM

cost consultant: AECOM

signage & wayfinding: Transport Design Consultancy

safety assessment: BH with Transsol

development engineer: Riyadh Metro Transit Consultants (RMTC)

main contractor: BACS Consortium

independent checking engineer: Buro Veritas

independent safety assessor: TÜV Rheinland / ISARail Group

transit systems: Line 1 Siemens (BACS), Line 4&6 Alstom (FAST)

viaducts: AECOM & TriPod-ssd (Line1), Atkins (Line 4&6)

automatic fare collection: Indra

structure contractor: Saudi Lebanese Tarouk Contracting

MEP contractor: Zamil

interiors contractor: DEPA

elevators, escalators: ThyssenKrupp

facade contractor: Permasteelisa Gartner Saudi Arabia

landscape contractor: DEPA