The Saudi Pavilion has one of the crucial sustainable, LEED-Platinum-certified designs on the planet and holds three Guinness World Data.
Pavilion guests will get to see firsthand the Kingdom’s transformation below Imaginative and prescient 2030
DUBAI, U.A.E: 01 October 2021 – Saudi Arabia inaugurated its state-of-the-art pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai on Friday, kicking off a six-month World Expo expertise that can take guests from internationally on a journey by means of the Kingdom’s wealthy previous, vibrant current, and promising future.
The thought of “seeing is believing” is on the coronary heart of the experiences the Saudi Pavilion affords guests. The journey showcases a future-forward Saudi Arabia: welcoming, younger, various, and vibrant. The Pavilion represents the Saudi folks, formidable and gifted people throughout completely different sectors, powering the Kingdom’s transformation below Imaginative and prescient 2030. Throughout enterprise alternative and tourism, tradition and nature, Saudi Arabia has a lot to supply all through its 13 distinctive areas – together with 5 UNESCO World Heritage Websites – and the Pavilion allows guests to get a primary glimpse of an enchanting vacation spot that has but to be found.
The Pavilion’s inauguration was attended by the H.E. Mohammad Al-Tuwaijri, Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Committee for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai; Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, H.E. Turki Aldakhil; Hussain Hanbazazah, the Commissioner-Normal of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Pavilion; and GCC international locations’ ambassadors, and officers and cultural figures from around the globe.
Conventional Saudi Ardah dancers, wielding ceremonial swords, delivered a blinding and energetic efficiency to the beat of folkloric drums and spoken poetry.
Commenting on the official opening, H.E. Mohammad Al-Tuwaijri, Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Committee for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Pavilion, stated: “The pavilion displays the Kingdom’s development and prosperity throughout the reign of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Our nation is at this world discussion board with its younger, renewed spirit and aspiration in direction of a affluent future for the area and the world. Our Pavilion showcases the numerous formidable initiatives below Saudi Imaginative and prescient 2030, formulated by His Highness, the Crown Prince, could God defend him, and embodies our journey to new horizons of growth.”
Hussain Hanbazazah, the Commissioner-Normal of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Pavilion, stated: “Saudi Arabia’s participation in Expo 2020 Dubai stems from the Kingdom’s cultural values, and its capabilities and ambitions. The Pavilion invitations guests to expertise the transformation underway within the Kingdom below Imaginative and prescient 2030 – powered by our welcoming, various folks and the vitality and optimism of the following era. The journey additionally allows the enterprise neighborhood to establish, seize and create alternatives within the Kingdom, contributing to financial diversification and nationwide growth.
“The pavilion affords wealthy and diversified content material, actions and packages masking the economy, growth and culture, concentrating on all segments from kids and households to businessmen and buyers. All guests will see Saudi Arabia because it actually is: an thrilling fusion of previous and new – an historical and evolving vacationer vacation spot for adventurers, explorers, and luxurious vacationers and a vacation spot in contrast to another. Our Pavilion is a bridge that can join the folks of Saudi Arabia to the world and can assist deepen regional and world ties.”
The delegation was briefed on Saudi Arabia’s participation in Expo 2020 Dubai, anchored by 4 key pillars: Individuals, Alternative, Heritage, and Nature. The delegation additionally had the prospect to see how the state-of-the-art constructing fuses structure with digital know-how, expressing their admiration for its distinctive design which symbolizes the Kingdom’s limitless ambition. The pavilion’s content material was designed below the supervision of an official nationwide committee headed by H.H. Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan Al Saud, the Saudi Minister of Tradition.
The dignitaries had been among the many first to expertise the Pavilion’s 14 cultural landmarks alongside a shocking escalator trip, together with acclaimed UNESCO World Heritage Websites akin to At-Turaif District in Advert-Diriyah, Hegra Archaeological Web site in AlUla, and Historic Jeddah. The briefing featured an introduction to the audiovisual information, by means of which visitors can discover 23 locations akin to world-leading giga-projects which might be rewriting the probabilities of sustainable growth. The go to concluded with a peek of a path by means of Saudi Arabia’s beautiful nature.
The Saudi pavilion, the second largest after the UAE’s, is without doubt one of the most sustainable constructions at Expo 2020 Dubai. It has been awarded LEED model 4 Platinum ranking from the U.S. Inexperienced Constructing Council (USGBC), the very best internationally acknowledged sustainability ranking in Management in Vitality and Environmental Design. The Pavilion has earned three Guinness World Data for the biggest interactive lighting ground, the longest interactive water characteristic, and the biggest LED interactive digital mirror display screen.
