Independent architecture from Jeddah.
The practice of Omar Badriek — Saudi architect with six years on the largest civic projects in the Kingdom. Now working at the scale of a single building.
Selected work
Eight projects under the O+ name — from a private house in Al Azziziyah to a research prototype on the Najd Plateau.
Studio House, Al Azziziyah
2025Al-Balad Reading Room
2025Corniche Shade Pavilion
2025Hejaz Civic Library
2025Tuwaiq Observatory
2024Red Sea Ribbon School
2024Climate Refuge House
2024Climate-Vulnerable Communities — Research
2018 – ongoingSix years on the Kingdom’s flagship projects.
Before O+, Omar contributed to four of the largest civic and hospitality projects in Saudi Arabia — from the 400-metre cube at New Murabba to two five-star hotels above the King Abdullah Financial District. That discipline goes into every drawing under the O+ name today.
New Murabba — Mukaab District
2023 – ongoingKAFD Plot 5.06 — Intercontinental Hotel
2020 – 2024KAFD Plot 4.05 — Kimpton Hotel
2021 – 2024Qiddiya — Six Flags
2020 – 2023A small practice. A long view.
O+ is the independent practice of Omar Badriek — a Saudi architect with a decade of work across civic, hospitality, and adaptive-reuse projects. The studio is small by design: every project is led by Omar, on site, weekly.
Before founding O+, Omar spent six years inside the Riyadh design team at AtkinsRéalis — leading and contributing to projects at every scale of Vision 2030, from a 400-metre cube at New Murabba to two hotels above the King Abdullah Financial District.
The work is grounded in long-running research: how does architecture serve communities most exposed to a changing climate? In a city built between mountain, sea, and sun, that question has a daily answer.
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Climate first
Wall, void, shade. Saudi summers do not negotiate. Form is set by orientation, mass, and the path of the sun before it is set by anything else.
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Hejazi heritage
The roshan, the courtyard, the tight alley — Old Jeddah’s architecture is a system, not a style. We design with that system, not against it.
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Few materials
Limestone, lime plaster, perforated steel, glass, water. A short list, deeply understood. Specifications get shorter as the project gets older.
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On the page, on site
Every project is led by Omar from sketch to handover. The drawings are made in the studio. The decisions are made on site.
How we work.
A small studio runs differently. Five stages, one architect on the project from start to finish.
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01 — Brief
A site walk together. Climate, zoning, neighbours, and budget — on the table from day one.
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02 — Set out
A structural and urban grid is set. Programme is laid in. The first model is physical.
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03 — Form
Mass, shade, void. Orientation is locked. Materials are sampled at full scale before they’re drawn.
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04 — Detail
Joints, openings, thresholds. The building is drawn at 1:1 where it meets the body.
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05 — Build
On site, weekly. The drawing follows the building, not the other way around.
Step five
Considering a project?
O+ takes on a small number of projects each year — civic, residential, hospitality, and adaptive-reuse work, at any scale and in any phase.
- studio@oplus.sa
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- Al Rawdah District, Jeddah