{"id":734697,"date":"2026-06-21T18:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:35:22","slug":"the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Saudi Desert Observatory That Was Made to Make You Look Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bbe959893e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bbe959893e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/#SHARE\" >SHARE<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"single-box clearfix entry-content\" style=\"max-width:1050px;\">\n                        <input class=\"jpibfi\" type=\"hidden\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-632106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/21\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Saudi Desert Observatory That Was Made to Make You Look Up\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>When you hear the word \u201cobservatory,\u201d your brain probably conjures a cold, concrete dome perched on a remote mountaintop, somewhere that only astrophysicists with access badges get to enjoy. That image is about to get a serious redesign.<\/p>\n<p>Heatherwick Studio just unveiled AlUla Manara, a stone-clad astrotourism center and observatory set to rise from the desert of northwestern Saudi Arabia, near the ancient city of AlUla. The design won an international competition and has been <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roved by the Royal Commission for AlUla. The name itself sets the tone: \u201cManara\u201d means \u201clighthouse\u201d in Arabic, and the building is exactly that, a beacon in the desert pointing not across the sea, but straight up into the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>Designer: Heatherwick Studio<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-632107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/21\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Saudi Desert Observatory That Was Made to Make You Look Up\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-632107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/21\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Saudi Desert Observatory That Was Made to Make You Look Up\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 4px; margin: 18px auto 20px; text-align:center;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7222236028814181\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" type=\"bea41455224faa48f941aba6-text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- In-Content-Ad-1 --><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"bea41455224faa48f941aba6-text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The site sits approximately 70 kilometers north of AlUla, between the Harrat Uwayrid Reserve and Gharameel, a location selected specifically for its extraordinary dark-sky conditions. Minimal light pollution, vast open terrain, and one of the clearest night skies on the planet. It\u2019s not an arbitrary choice. AlUla already carries centuries of history tied to astronomy, and the region\u2019s newly designated Dark Sky Park status makes it one of the most compelling places on Earth to simply look up.<\/p>\n<p>The design itself is striking, and I mean genuinely striking, not just in that polished press-release way. Heatherwick has created a cluster of tubular forms, each clad in textured stone, each turned toward the sky like enormous stone nostrils (or telescopes, depending on your imagination). The geometries were drawn from spiraling patterns found both in the cosmos and in the natural world: galaxies, planetary rings, shells, fossils. The building isn\u2019t referencing space in an abstract, vague-inspiration kind of way. It\u2019s actually embedding those forms into the architecture.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-632108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1600\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/21\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Saudi Desert Observatory That Was Made to Make You Look Up\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-632108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1600\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/21\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Saudi Desert Observatory That Was Made to Make You Look Up\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-05.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The materiality also tells a deliberate story. Rather than landing a glass-and-steel building in the middle of ancient sandstone terrain, Heatherwick chose locally sourced stone cladding that picks up the tones of AlUla\u2019s dramatic landscape without mimicking it outright. It\u2019s grounded in its context, but it doesn\u2019t disappear into it. That balance, rare and worth noting, is harder to pull off than it looks.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, the center will house galleries, a planetarium, and a rooftop observation deck. Heatherwick Studio\u2019s executive partner Stuart Wood described the intent plainly: \u201cSpace observatories are often remote, sterile places, technical outposts that feel distant from the public. We saw an opportunity to dissolve those barriers and create a place where visitors can step inside the wonder of the cosmos.\u201d That\u2019s exactly the kind of brief that results in interesting architecture rather than merely functional ones.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-632109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/21\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Saudi Desert Observatory That Was Made to Make You Look Up\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-632109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/21\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Saudi Desert Observatory That Was Made to Make You Look Up\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-03.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 4px; margin: 18px auto 20px; text-align:center;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7222236028814181\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" type=\"bea41455224faa48f941aba6-text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- In-Content-Ads-2 --><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"bea41455224faa48f941aba6-text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Most observatories are built for scientists. AlUla Manara is built for everyone, which is either an exciting democratization of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> or a tourism play dressed up in aesthetic clothing. Probably both, and I\u2019m okay with that. If the result is more people standing under a legitimately breathtaking sky and feeling genuinely moved by the scale of the universe, the funding source matters a little less. Saudi Arabia has been investing heavily in cultural infrastructure under Vision 2030, and AlUla has emerged as one of its most ambitious bets. The cynical read is that it\u2019s all soft power and spectacle. The more generous read, the one I lean toward, is that spectacle can be meaningful when the underlying design actually earns it.<\/p>\n<p>Heatherwick has always worked at the intersection of the sculptural and the functional, from the Olympic Cauldron in London to the Vessel in New York, with mixed results. AlUla Manara feels like the studio at its most purposeful. The building doesn\u2019t need to scream for attention because the desert will do that. Its job is to make people look up. That\u2019s not a small thing. A well-designed building can shift how you experience a place. If AlUla Manara pulls that off, and I think it might, it joins a short but significant list of structures that don\u2019t just house an experience. They become one.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-632110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1600\" data-jpibfi-post-excerpt=\"\" data-jpibfi-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/21\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/\" data-jpibfi-post-title=\"The Saudi Desert Observatory That Was Made to Make You Look Up\" data-jpibfi-src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-632110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/images\/design_news\/2026\/06\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/heatherwick-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Technology<\/a><\/span> category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2026\/06\/21\/the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-saudi-desert-observatory-that-was-made-to-make-you-look-up\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you hear the word \u201cobservatory,\u201d your brain probably conjures a cold, concrete dome perched on a remote mountaintop, somewhere that only astrophysicists with access badges get to enjoy. That image is about to get a serious redesign. 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