The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture stands in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, near Prosperity Well, the country's first commercial oil well. Snøhetta designed it, with Buro Happold leading the engineering. Saudi Aramco built and runs it, and King Salman inaugurated it on December 1, 2016. The article names no style.
The building covers 80,000 square meters. Its form echoes the internal structure of oil-bearing rock, and silver tubes cover parts of it like extraction pipes. Copper paneling lines the Great Hall. Levels run from past to future, ending in the Knowledge Tower. It includes four galleries, a library for about 500,000 texts, a cinema and a 900-seat theater. It received LEED Gold in 2023.
Hosted events include the 2018 Arab League summit. It drew one million visitors in 2019. The article gives no hours.
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