

“It’s perhaps particularly gratifying to win the popular vote. Phillip Jones, Chief Destination Management and Marketing Officer at Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), welcomes the announcement saying that though Maraya is currently closed for further enhancements, the venue will be a key draw factor when AlUla officially re-opens to visitors as a year-round destination in late 2020. a cube-shaped concert and entertainment venue in AlUla. Maraya achieved the most public votes in its category to be named the 2020 popular choice winner. Finalists were selected for excellence in architecture with criteria based on form, function and impact. Run by New York-based, a seven-million-plus online community of leading architects, the annual awards consist of five peer judged finalists with one jury winner and one popular choice winner in each category.Ī finalist in the Architecture + Glass category, Maraya was selected by distinguished luminaries from fields as diverse as design, technology, real estate and fashion. Maraya in northwestern Saudi Arabia has been named a winner in the Architizer A+ Awards, the world’s largest awards programme focused on promoting and celebrating the year’s best architecture. A cube-shaped multi-purpose concert and entertainment venue that reflects the vast and stunning desert surroundings of Saudi Arabia’s AlUla region has won yet another accolade: this time emerging as a winner in one of the world’s biggest architecture awards.
