The Royal State Palace is a palace in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It was designed for King Fahd of Saudi Arabia by the Japanese architect Kenzō Tange.[1] It was completed in 1982.[2] The palace is 14,000 m2 (150,000 sq ft) in size internally and is spread over a 65,000 m2 (700,000 sq ft) site. The palace has two storeys and a basement.[3]
Donald Leslie Johnson, in his 2013 book Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook, describes Tange's "formality and monumental scale are statements highly suggestive of the authoritarianism of Samuri culture", a formalism as "most suitable" for projects such as the palace and suggests Tange's formalism was influenced by his early years growing up in Imperial Japan.[2]
The palace was used by Tange as the inspiration for his design for the Presidential Complex in Abuja, Nigeria, the two buildings share with the "facade, the hallway and the composition" of the two buildings reading "identically" in appearance.[4]
References
edit- ^ Kenzō Tange (1996). Kenzo Tange 1946-1996. Architettura e disegno urbano. Ediz. italiana e inglese. Electa.
- ^ a b Donald Leslie Johnson; Donald Langmead (13 May 2013). Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Routledge. p. 332. ISBN 1-136-64056-8.
- ^ "Royal State Palace". Tange. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
- ^ Nnamdi Elleh (8 December 2016). Architecture and Politics in Nigeria: The Study of a Late Twentieth-Century Enlightenment-Inspired Modernism at Abuja, 1900–2016. Taylor & Francis. p. 221. ISBN 978-1-317-17935-1.