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This place in Riyadh transforms a former equestrian club into a unique all-in-one MDLBeast destination encompassing a restaurant, club, lounge, pool concept and soon a boutique hotel too, with eclectic music and diverse culinary delights throughout.
After decades closed to travellers, Saudi Arabia is welcoming visitors under its Vision 2030 plan. Though e-visas have existed since 2020, cities such as Riyadh and Jeddah remain unknown to many curious global explorers.
Here are FIVE reasons why we love Section-B: 1. Section-B was created by Mansour Gadhi and five of his friends (Fahad, Mohammed, Mostafa, Faisal and Baraa) who shared a passion for timeless top-quality burgers. In 2013, they began inviting friends to a weekly Friday get together. “We wo…
Section-B began in 2013 as a Friday-only, pre-order venture. The founders listened to diners and refined their recipes through feedback until reaching the result now loved by everybody, opening their first Jeddah outlet in 2015.
Artists gathered from across the globe in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh this January for the beginning of the annual Tuwaiq Sculpture symposium, a month-long creative residency in which the participants create large-scale works in a public setting. Previously, the event was a comp…
The second edition of Noor Riyadh (part of the Riyadh Art programme), ran from November 3rd to the 19th last year, transforming Saudi Arabia’s capital into a glittering gallery without walls. This festival, which was three times larger than the inaugural one, gathered over 130 artists from
In the virgin desert of north-west Saudi Arabia, French starchitect Jean Nouvel is carving a luxury resort into ancient cliffs, building not around the rock but hidden deep within it.
Florian Boje of Giò Forma — the studio behind AlUla’s mirror-clad Maraya, the world’s largest mirrored building — on designing an epic landmark that reflects its UNESCO surroundings and all but vanishes.
With a display that lasted from January 31st till March 7th, Desert X helped shed light on how self-expression is a hot new topic in the Kingdom. The desert sands are slowly slipping through the hourglass, bringing change to the long-cloistered Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Nowhere is this m…
Following last year’s first edition of the music and culture festival at the Mada’in Saleh, Saudi Arabia is now betting big on cultural tourism with a handful of luxury hotels and a Jean Nouvel-designed resort due to emerge in the Al-Ula governorate. Pick any major publication fro…
In the fourth room your heart stops: three red sandstone colossi in white kilts, lit so perfectly you scarcely notice two are headless. Unearthed at Dedan, they anchor a compact but powerful exhibition.
When Saudi Arabia's Abdulrahman Al Sudairy Cultural Centre resolved to renovate its ageing library, it launched a global architectural competition drawing 150 applicants. The Dar Al-Uloum Library sits within a compound created in 1983.
Saudi Arabia’s capital city has become a hub for the nation’s most visually pleasing new architectural landmarks. There’s the Kingdom Centre with its majestic skybridge, the King Fahad National Library and its lozenge-shaped textile awnings and stately Al Faisaliah Tower, featurin…
The port city of Jeddah, located on the shores of the Red Sea in western Saudi Arabia, is home to some of the country’s most spectacularly designed homes. But since virtually all of these extraordinary houses are hidden behind walls – privacy is of the utmost importance in the Kingdom –…
At Davos, KAEC chief executive Fahd Al Rasheed talks to John Defterios about a 100 billion dollar city the size of Washington DC, Saudi oil reform and the long road from 5,000 residents to two million.
It could be argued that Rubaiyat brought high-end fashion to Saudi Arabia. With their new department store in Jeddah's Stars Avenue Mall, they now offer over 300 brands and a personal shopping service, reinventing the retail experience.
Commissioned by the Mayor of Riyadh and funded by the city's businesses and citizens, the King Abdullah International Gardens will become a high-tech, sustainable botanical sanctuary, spanning almost 250 hectares of water, desert and butterfly gardens.
Saudi-born designer Hatem Alakeel wants us to rethink thobes, suits and womenswear. With his fresh take on traditional dress, he breaks new ground this year, showing for the first time at London Collections: Men.
Victor Vasarely, Henry Moore, and Joan Miró, are names not normally associated with Jeddah, but they should be. Sculptures by these world renowned artists line the recently revamped Al Hamra Open Air Museum along the corniche leading to the culturally cool five star Park Hyatt Jeddah. C…
At the heart of the Arabian Peninsula, the relentless sun shapes everything. Since 1976 the Riyadh Development Authority and architects AS&P have nurtured the Qasr al-Hokm district, honouring deep cultural, political and commercial tradition.
Kingdom Holding, led by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, has signed a 1.23 billion dollar deal with the Saudi Binladin Group to raise a tower beyond 1,000 metres, the centrepiece of the vast Kingdom City development.
The King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) is a new, multi-billion dollar graduate-level university on a sprawling campus outside Jeddah. From its master plan sketches to its official inauguration just 1,000 days later, everything about this place seems astonishing.
Contemporary art is burgeoning in Saudi Arabia despite the lack of a domestic art industry. Saudi artists have, until very recently, wanted for a means by which to promote, exhibit and sell their works and, as such, have remained very much under the radar. Happily, this is beginning to cha
Riyadh's Al Faisaliah hotel raised the bar when it opened back in 2000. Offering new levels of personalised service the hotel is a beacon to discerning business travellers.
Aesthetically-pleasing fusions of Latin America and Arabia, come to life in the rare paintings of Latifa Al Sowayel.
With the idea of taking racing off the streets and on to a circuit, the owners of Reem Auto Club Experience (RACE) have created a track that is as luxurious as it is full of high octane thrills.
Speed may be life’s most powerful addiction, especially when you have nothing but wide desert road before you. Warren Singh-Bartlett spends time with the controversial Riyadh drifters who have turned an underground adrenaline-charged diversion into a growing urban sport.