Adjaye, Coop Himmelb(l)au and Morphosis reportedly working on The Line

Adjaye, Coop Himmelb(l)au and Morphosis reportedly working on The Line

 

International architecture studios including Adjaye Associates, Morphosis, Studio Fuksas and Coop Himmelb(l)au have been named in a Riyadh exhibition as working on The Line megacity in Saudi Arabia.

Currently under construction in Saudi Arabia, the 170-kilometre-long megacity is being designed by numerous international studios, with each practice reportedly working on a 500-metre section.

Coop Himmelb(l)au, Peter Cook and Studio Fuksas also among the architects named

Twelve architecture studios are named in The Line Exhibition, which is currently on display in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, according to reporting by Architects' Journal.

US architecture firm Morphosis, which is led by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, has been long rumoured to be leading the design. The studio declined to comment when asked about its involvement by Dezeen.

Alongside Morphosis, 11 other studios were named in the exhibition as being involved in the project.

These studios are US practices Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Tom Wiscombe Architecture, Oyler Wu Collaborative and HOK; UK studios Adjaye Associates and Peter Cook's studio CHAP; Austria studios Coop Himmelb(l)au and Delugan Meissl Associated Architects; Italian practice Studio Fuksas; and Dutch studios UNStudio and OMA.

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