Project Overview

The King Abdullah Financial District Conference Center is a landmark conference and events facility at the heart of Riyadh's KAFD, designed around a distinctive faceted architectural form inspired by the surrounding desert landscape.

Behind its sculptural appearance is a highly engineered structural system: vast column-free spaces are enclosed beneath an independent steel mega-roof, supported by composite columns and lateral reinforced-concrete walls. The building incorporates four underground substructure levels and three superstructure levels.

The result is a complex architectural and structural solution where engineering performance, constructability and architectural expression had to work as one.

• THE MEGA-ROOF
• A monumental independent steel structure forming the defining architectural element of the Conference Center.
• COLUMN-FREE SPACES
• Large unobstructed spaces achieved through an integrated structural system designed around the building's complex program.
• FACETED GEOMETRY
• A highly articulated architectural envelope requiring precise coordination between structural geometry, façade systems and construction execution.