The King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, or KAPSARC, is a research campus on Airport Road in Riyadh. Zaha Hadid was selected to design its Research and Office Complex after a 2009 design competition. The article names no client, saying only that a Board of Trustees chaired by Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud governs the center. King Salman inaugurated it in 2016, and it opened in October 2017. The article gives no style. Parametricism is an assumption based on Hadid's work.
The complex covers 70,000 square meters (753,000 square feet). Five interlocking buildings house a research center, a computer center, a conference center, a library and a prayer space called the Musalla. The Residential Campus lies to the west.
It received LEED Platinum certification. The article gives no public access details.
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