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Ministry of Foreign Affairs

building, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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  • Henning Larsen

    …most important projects was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Riyadh (1984), which his firm was awarded after winning a design competition. The building’s simple limestone exterior enclosed an interior that comprised a variety of intimate and public spaces, reflecting traditional Middle Eastern Islamic architecture through a Modernist lens. Its…

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    …most important projects was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Riyadh (1984), which his firm was awarded after winning a design competition. The building’s simple limestone exterior enclosed an interior that comprised a variety of intimate and public spaces, reflecting traditional Middle Eastern Islamic architecture through a Modernist lens. Its…

    Read More