2024-05-16

This might be our new favourite building 🔥. We just planned a quick visit, and before we knew it we spent an entire day just looking around, relaxing, and in general being amazed by the place.

The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture also known as Ithra, contains among other things, a theater, library and a museum. It is built by Aramco close to the Prosperity Well, its first commercial source of oil, as a symbol for the transition away from oil.

The design by Norwegian architects, is made from similar pipes used to extract oil, and is a large scale representation of four stones, with one of them suspended in the air.