Project info:
Name: King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) subway station.
Architecture: Zaha Hadid Architects | @zahahadidarchitects
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Completion: December 1, 2024 (public opening)
Photography: © Hufton + Crow Photography | @huftonandcrow
ZHA design: Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
ZHA project manager: Gianluca Racana
ZHA project manager: Filippo Innocenti
ZHA project architect: Gian Luca Barone
ZHA project team: Fulvio Wirz
ZHA construction support lines: 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-Cáceres
Structural engineer: BuroHappold
Building technology engineer: BuroHappold
Traffic and civil engineers: BuroHappold
Fire and Life Safety Engineer: BuroHappold
People are flocking: BuroHappold
Acoustics consultant: BuroHappold
Sustainability consultant: BuroHappold
Light consultant: BuroHappold
Facade technology: Newtecnic
Design management: AECOM
Specification Advisor: AECOM
Cost consultant: AECOM
Signage and directions: Transportation design consulting
Security rating: Bra with transsol
Development engineer: Riyadh Metro Transit Consultants (RMTC)
Main contractor: BACS Consortium
independent test engineer: Office Veritas
Independent safety assessor: TÜV Rheinland / ISARail Group
Transit systems: Line 1 Siemens (BACS), lines 4 and 6 Alstom (FAST)
Viaducts: AECOM & TriPod SSD (Line 1), Atkins (Line 4 and 6)
Automatic fare collection: Indra
Contractor: Saudi-Lebanese Tarouk Treaty
MEP contractor: Zamil
Interior designer: DEPA
Elevators, escalators: ThyssenKrupp
Facade builder: Permasteelisa Gartner Saudi Arabia
Landscape contractor: DEPA