Tourist attraction
King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture - Ithra
Pebble-shaped cultural centre wrapped in curved steel tubes, with a rammed-earth plaza.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Ithra, the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Dhahran near Dammam, starts with one engineer's plain sentence about software and turns it toward the work behind the building's gleaming skin. It follows the steel tubes wrapped around five pebble-shaped buildings, the desert sun and sand they had to answer to, and the rammed-earth walls of the plaza. Best heard standing in the plaza, close enough to a window to see the tubes up close.
This audio guide was created using AI.