Jay Merrick

Nov 25, 2024 | ribaj.com | Jay Merrick

Saudi Arabia’s cultural, commercial and architectural evolutions are responses to a projected significant fall in demand for petroleum across the next 20 years. But there are at least two other equally important factors: the co-existence of modernising ideas alongside the conservative precepts of the country’s prevailing Wahhabi strand of Islamic faith, and the fact that more than two-thirds of Saudis are under 30.

Apr 30, 2024 | architectsjournal.co.uk | Jay Merrick

Big city regeneration masterplans are stamped with a fertilising litany of phrases – gateway, iconic, legacy, statement building, landmark et al. This was certainly the case whenCapital&Centric commissioned Stephenson Hamilton Risley STUDIO (SHR) to design the Leonardo Hotel at the corner of Great Ancoats Street and Adair Street, 500m north-east of Manchester’s Piccadilly Station. They asked, specifically, for an Instagrammable ‘wow factor’ building.

May 3, 2023 | iconeye.com | Jay Merrick