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LG BLACK DIAMOND

The Qiddiya Performing Arts Centre is the first flagship cultural asset of Qiddiya City in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a city wholly dedicated to play and an epicenter of entertainment, sports, and culture. The project’s mission is to engender fresh interest in the performing arts among Saudi youth by providing pioneering new content for the 21st century, within a building designed as a massive, immersive stage.

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TWA brings the wonder and mystery of the cosmos down to earth. We believe that architecture’s role in society is not to mirror the status quo, but rather to give glimpses into a better, more beautiful parallel universe. A parallel universe — unlike a truly alien one — draws us in through a combination of familiar and alien things that unsettle our habitual ways of seeing and being on earth.

LOCATION
Berlin - Germany
CLIENT
Qiddiya Investment Company, Riyadh
YEAR
2023 - ONGOING
STATUS
Design Development
TYPE
Theatre
DESIGN TEAM
Design Architect: Tom Wiscombe Architecture, Los Angeles
Principal: Tom Wiscombe, AIA
Senior Associates: Jamie Norden, Marrikka Trotter
Senior Project Architect: Kam Ku, AIA
Senior Designers: Jordan Micham, Binghao Yao, Shervin Hashemi, Yutao Chen
Project Managers/ Project Technical Leads: Eugenia Krassakopoulou, Charles Jacobs Jr., Jiahua Xu
Senior Job Captains: Niyousha Zaribaf, Alvin Li, Daniela A Guerra, Suyue Jin
Project Designers: Panjing Zhu, Iris Gu, Wentao Pan, Chenglu Xue, Chengyu Zhang, Bobby Cheng
CTO and Model Supervision: Dheer Talreja
PROJECT TEAM
Client: Qiddiya Investment Company, Riyadh
Design Architect: Tom Wiscombe Architecture, Los Angeles
Principal: Tom Wiscombe, AIA
Senior Associates: Jamie Norden, Marrikka Trotter
Senior Project Architect: Kam Ku, AIA
Senior Designers: Jordan Micham, Binghao Yao, Shervin Hashemi, Yutao Chen
Project Managers/ Project Technical Leads: Eugenia Krassakopoulou, Charles Jacobs Jr., Jiahua Xu
Senior Job Captains: Niyousha Zaribaf, Alvin Li, Daniela A Guerra, Suyue Jin
Project Designers: Panjing Zhu, Iris Gu, Wentao Pan, Chenglu Xue, Chengyu Zhang, Bobby Cheng
CTO and Model Supervision: Dheer Talreja
Lead Design Consultant: Brewer Smith Brewer Group, Dubai
Managing Partner: Alistair McMillan
Senior Partners: Andrew Bereza, Scott Orwin
Partner: Nick Turbott
Director (Structures): Steven Bailey
Associate Director: Mark Vaughan
Lead Architects: Matthew Enirayetan, Harvey Hale, Bojan Stankovic
Head of Studio, Riyadh: Bart Leclercq
Consultants Structural (Design): Buro Happold SF
Structural (Executive): BSBG Dubai
MEP: Samadhin + Associates, Dubai
Facade Engineering: AESG, Dubai
Theatre Consultant: Theatre Projects, London
Civil, Geotechnical, CMES: Robert Bird Group, Dubai
Lighting: Fisher Marantz Stone, New York
Landscape: Studio Create, Dubai
Media: Display Devices, Denver
FLS Consultant: Design Confidence, Dubai
Vertical Transportation: VTME, Dubai
Acoustics: Inhabit, Dubai
Traffic: Transpo Group, Dubai
Signage: Genus Loci, Dubai
Sustainability: AESG, Dubai
Wind Engineering: RWDI, Dubai
Kitchen: SHW, Dubai
AV, ICT, ELV: Innovation, Dubai
Security: Design Security, UK; Consquare, Dubai
AOR: V3, Riyadh
Cost Planning: Omnium, Dubai
“A stage from another world, built for this world.”
The building’s megalithic slabs lean playfully on each other, like a scale model or a house of cards. They step down the cliffs, relating to the context in a surprising, raw way.

LG BLACK DIAMOND

Berlin - Germany
Contemporary television is simultaneously ultra-flat and coupled with high-fidelity picture depth, such that it appears like a window to another world. This pavilion operates in the same way, by unfolding into a three-dimensional space of glossy black surfaces and black glass, reflecting the glow of live televisions exhibited inside. Like a black diamond, the object is defined simultaneously by its sharp mass edges, but also by its mass-degrading reflective qualities, creating an entity that vibrates and sparkles.

Location: Berlin, Germany
Type: Product Launch Pavilion
Client: LG, Seoul
JV Partners: Morphosis, Neil Denari, Griffin Enright, Tom Wiscombe Architecture