Bids will open in the fourth quarter.
Oman’s Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports has submitted a tender to design and build Oman’s pending cultural complex.
The complex will be on a plot of 400,000 square meters (m²) in front of Muscat International Airport in Al Seeb. The center, with a domain structure of approximately 73,000 m², aims to be a national cultural center in Muscat to maintain history and tradition, supply wisdom and publicize cultural and artistic innovations.
The task was scheduled to be completed in 2016 but suspended. The French company AS Architecture-Studio designed the task while Gulf Engineering Consultancy, the co-architect. The British consultancy MACE appointed manager of tasks and positions in 2014.
The complex will come with a 1,000-seat auditorium, a flexible 250-seat auditorium, a 20,000-square-meter national library on five floors and the national archives will feature approximately 20 kilometers of archive shelves, depending on the scope of the appeal. of offers
A four-poster urban central plaza will be framed through 4 smaller L-shaped buildings that will house a cinema, an art club with an exhibition gallery, a children’s library, and food and beverage outlets.
The documents will be available until October 6, 2022 and the submission of bids will close on November 21, 2022. The quantified bids are expected to open on December 28, 2022.
(Written through Sowmya Sundar; Edited via Anoop Menon)
(anoop. menon@lseg. com)
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