Bahrain’s New Open Air Music Venue!

S L Architects designs a contextually driven amphitheatre allowing for a low-impact footprint, and meeting recycling/ re-use objectives. Respect for natural surroundings - including the nature of the location’s individual characteristics, such as sun paths and shadows, wind direction, and terrain - is what ultimately evokes the strongest bond to that nature, allowing the amphitheatre to be an organic and everlasting part of its existence. Essentially inserted into a quarry and orientated to have the ‘Jebel’ as a backdrop, it has the sun path rising from behind the Jebel and setting behind the audience and the BIC tower in the […]