project info:
name: King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) Metro Station
architecture: Zaha Hadid Architects | @zahahadidarchitects
location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
completion: December 1st, 2024 (public opening)
photography: © Hufton + Crow Photography | @huftonandcrow
ZHA design: Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
ZHA project principal: Gianluca Racana
ZHA project director: Filippo Innocenti
ZHA project architect: Gian Luca Barone
ZHA project associate: Fulvio Wirz
ZHA construction support leads: Marco Amoroso, Domenico di Francesco
ZHA construction support services: Vincenzo Caputo, Abdel Halim Chehab, Marko Gligorov,
Stefano Iacopini
ZHA project team: Marco Amoroso, Vincenzo Caputo, Abdel Halim Chehab, Lee Cubeddu,
Rawan Al-Derjem, Domenico Di Francesco, David Fogliano, Manuele Gaioni, Marko Gligorov,
Subharthi Guha, Alexandros Kallegias, Lisa Kinnerud, Alexandre Kuroda, Stefano Iacopini,
Carolina López-Blanco, Jamie Mann, Mohammadali Mirzaei, Arian Hakimi Nejad, David
Wolthers, Nicola McConnell, Mario Mattia, Massimo Napoleoni, Niki Okala, Carlos Parraga-
Botero, Sohith Perera, Izis Salvador Pinto, Carine Posner, Neil Rigden, Paola Salcedo, Nima
Shoja, Thomas Sonder, Vincenzo Reale, Kate Revyakina, Roberto Vangeli, Seungho Yeo
ZHA competition team: Alexandre Kuroda, Fei Wang, Lisa Kinnerud, Jorge Mendez-Caceres
structural engineer: BuroHappold
building services engineer: BuroHappold
transport & civil engineers: BuroHappold
fire protection & life safety engineer: BuroHappold
people flow: BuroHappold
acoustic consultant: BuroHappold
sustainability consultant: BuroHappold
lighting consultant: BuroHappold
facade engineering: Newtecnic
design management: AECOM
specification consultant: AECOM
cost consultant: AECOM
signage & wayfinding: Transport Design Consultancy
safety assessment: BH with Transsol
development engineer: Riyadh Metro Transit Consultants (RMTC)
main contractor: BACS Consortium
independent checking engineer: Buro Veritas
independent safety assessor: TÜV Rheinland / ISARail Group
transit systems: Line 1 Siemens (BACS), Line 4&6 Alstom (FAST)
viaducts: AECOM & TriPod-ssd (Line1), Atkins (Line 4&6)
automatic fare collection: Indra
structure contractor: Saudi Lebanese Tarouk Contracting
MEP contractor: Zamil
interiors contractor: DEPA
elevators, escalators: ThyssenKrupp
facade contractor: Permasteelisa Gartner Saudi Arabia
landscape contractor: DEPA
