The initiative, from the Ministry of Culture’s Architecture and Design Authority, was launched on Sunday.
There will be competitions covering areas such as urban design and planning, landscape architecture, interior, industrial and graphic design.
The first competition requires students to design public libraries in various Saudi cities. The buildings must be designed to accommodate the city’s cultural identity through a deep understanding of its social and historical context.
Nouf Alrashed, an architecture and design student who is in her final year at Effat University, said that such competitions were a great motivator for students.
“Such competitions allow us to apply all that we studied in our years of university and test our skills,” she told Arab News. “To have the opportunity to design a structure that will be a part of the community and have it be something that is a creation of a student is amazing and exciting. It shows the level of confidence and support by o
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