Conrad Gargette has been selected to design what will eventually stand as the focal point of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s epynonymous Nonprofit City development in Riyadh.

The Australian firm will remake a site situated between two ravines in the middle of the capital’s Irqah neighborhood. In a press statement, firm leaders credited the Prince’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.

The scheme was first made public back in November and follows the recent of a separate “smart city” megaproject (led by the Prince's development czar Nadhmi Al-Nasr) called NEOM that is planned for the country’s northern coastal region with help from Bechtel and Thom Mayne.

Both are in line with bin Salman’s calculated aim to reshape the West’s image of his country through the creation of more liberalized trade-friendly zones. The new headquarters project is expected to obtain both WELL and LEED Gold certification and centers around a mashrabiya screen-shaded feature called the Forum Garden, from which its interior operations can be parsed through a transparent internal facade. 

The tessellated sculptural exterior wall is reported to be influenced by traditional Nadj architecture. The new MiSK foundation HQ will have a modest 6,000-square-meters (64,583-square-feet) worth of office space to move its operations into once the project reaches its target completion date of 2025. 

The overall development takes up a total area of 3.4-square-kilometers (1.31-square-miles) adjacent to the Wadi Hafia. In a statement to the media, Conrad Gargett said the headquarters will provide"a comfortable place to meet and exchange ideas."