2024-11-23T04:40:44-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150314533/conrad-gargett-selected-to-design-saudi-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-s-nonprofit-city-hq Josh Niland 2022-06-24T12:57:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c9/c906644224991bc9a52f945adf9fd945.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/conradgargett" target="_blank">Conrad Gargette</a> has been selected to design what will eventually stand as the focal point of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman&rsquo;s epynonymous Nonprofit City development in Riyadh.</p> <p>The Australian firm will remake a site situated between two ravines in the middle of the capital&rsquo;s Irqah neighborhood. In a press statement, firm leaders credited the Prince&rsquo;s idea of creating an environment geared towards youth and entrepreneurial goals as spawning its interest in one of the many large state-sponsored developments on the horizon for the changing oil producer in the next decade-plus.</p> <p>The scheme was first <a href="https://www.indiatimes.com/explainers/news/why-saudi-arabia-is-building-worlds-first-non-profit-city-and-how-will-it-work-568010.html" target="_blank">made public</a> back in November and follows the recent of a separate &ldquo;smart city&rdquo; <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150313291/saudi-arabia-adds-morphosis-to-project-team-for-its-neom-smart-city-megaproject" target="_blank">megaproject</a> (led by the Prince's development czar Nadhmi Al-Nasr) called NEOM that is planned for the country&rsquo;s northern coastal region with help from Bechtel and <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/117998/thom-mayne" target="_blank">Thom Mayne</a>.<br></p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d9/d938b0bfc5f9c0a8b02f77e71d21c6e1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d9/d938b0bfc5f9c0a8b02f77e71d21c6e1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy Conrad Gargett</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/33/33aec6411975f3848aed38c95319dc27.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/33/33aec6411975f3848aed38c95319dc27.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy Conrad Gargett</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e0/e0075924b0b3c6d30ebcb25efc4cadea.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e0/e0075924b0b3c6d30ebcb25efc4cadea.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy Conrad Gargett</figcaption></figure><p>Both are in line with bin Salman&rsquo;s calculated a...</p>