Building on the grid of the Hejaz.
A Jeddah-based studio working on civic, hospitality, and climate-responsive architecture across the Kingdom and the wider Arabian Peninsula.
The work the studio owns.
Eight projects under the O+ name — built, in construction, on the boards, and in research.
Studio House, Al Azziziyah
2025Al-Balad Reading Room
2025Corniche Shade Pavilion
2025Hejaz Civic Library
2025Tuwaiq Observatory
2024Red Sea Ribbon School
2024Climate Refuge House
2024GSAPP Thesis — Climate-Vulnerable Communities
2018At AtkinsRéalis, 2019–2024.
Four projects from six years inside the Riyadh design team — civic, hospitality, and entertainment work that shaped the studio\u2019s grammar before O+ existed.
New Murabba — Mukaab District
2023 – ongoingKAFD Plot 5.06 — Intercontinental Hotel
2020 – 2024KAFD Plot 4.05 — Kimpton Hotel
2021 – 2024Qiddiya — Six Flags
2020 – 2023
A practice
between Riyadh
and the Hejaz.
O+ is the independent practice of Omar Badriek — a Saudi architect trained at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah and at Columbia University GSAPP in New York. The studio pairs rigour learned on Riyadh’s largest civic projects with the soft, courtyarded intelligence of Old Jeddah.
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 × 400 × 400 metre cube at New Murabba to two hotels above the King Abdullah Financial District, and the master entertainment grids of Qiddiya.
The work is grounded in research first carried out at Columbia: 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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Grid as discipline
Every project begins on a measured grid — structural, urban, social. The grid is the contract between the building, the city, and the body that walks through it.
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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 memory
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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Plain materials
Limestone, lime plaster, perforated steel, glass, water. Few materials, deeply understood.
From brief to building, in five movements.
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01 — Brief
Site walks, client conversations, climate and zoning study. The project is named.
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02 — Grid
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.
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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.
Drawing follows building
Have a site?
We have a grid.
O+ takes on a small number of projects each year. We work on civic, residential, hospitality, and adaptive-reuse commissions — at any scale, in any phase.
- studio@oplus.sa
- +966 12 000 0000
- Al Rawdah District, Jeddah