Ithra (the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia designed by Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta

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The King Abdulaziz Heart for World Tradition, often called Ithra (Arabic for enrichment), was designed by the Norwegian architectural agency Snøhetta. The agency was chosen for the mission following an invited design competitors in 2007.

The Heart, positioned in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, was designed to be a daring new initiative by the Saudi Aramco Oil Firm to advertise cultural growth and act as a cultural landmark. The architectural idea includes a group of "stones" symbolizing unity, with the constructing designed to be a masterpiece of sustainable design.

The middle contains an auditorium internet hosting a variety of occasions from opera, symphony live shows, musicals and lectures, a cinema, a library with over 315 000 books for all ages, a big exhibition corridor, built-in artwork by native and worldwide artists, in addition to a museum and an archive connecting the colourful cultural lifetime of the middle to the previous.

Snøhetta is thought additionally for designing the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York, NY (pictured final).