Located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this 25,000 sqm purpose-built health, fitness, and spa destination brings together elite sports facilities and restorative wellness spaces. The project accommodates everything from high-performance training to relaxation, social connection, and recovery within a single, integrated venue.
The building is organised around generous, interconnected volumes where activities are open and visible. Fitness, wellness and drinks venues are positioned around an open, cavernous central axis, establishing clear space that is easy to understand and navigate. This openness fosters a sense of energy and shared purpose where users are aware of one another, and the architecture amplifies rather than contains that dynamism.
A 200-metre running track encircles the interior at an elevated level, functioning simultaneously as infrastructure and architectural promenade. Runners move through shifting perspectives: outward views to the landscape, downward glimpses into the sports halls below. The track becomes less a piece of equipment than a continuous spatial experience; a route that ties the building together and rewards movement with ever-changing vistas.
High-performance facilities are treated with deliberate robustness. The football pitch, flanked by tiered seating, anchors the plan; courts, climbing walls, pools, and a fully equipped gym occupy volumes scaled for intensity and hard use. Materials and detailing prioritise durability without sacrificing refinement. By contrast, the spa and treatment suites occupy a distinct realm—enclosed, quiet, and deliberately removed from the building’s athletic core. Here, the architecture shifts to lower ceilings, diffused light, and tactile surfaces to create an atmosphere oriented entirely toward rest and recovery.
A modernist sensibility underpins the building: structural clarity, controlled natural light, and a seamless relationship between interior and landscape. The result is a building that accommodates both exertion and stillness, allowing visitors to move intuitively between states of activity and calm across a single, coherent architectural experience.
Project Delivery: 2010 – 2018
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
