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Blier explained: “A challenge was designing a park for families in a Muslim culture. The design of the program required Landworks Studio designers to consider cultural norms and standards. Locals, expats, and tourists upload photos of the park in use. A look at Google Maps quickly subverts any expectations about public space in Saudi Arabia. The park is clearly popular-although COVID-19 continues to make travel difficult, the Internet renders the previously mysterious satisfyingly transparent. One shift is in tourism, both internal and external-a prepandemic 2019 campaign pushed the natural beauty of “Saudi” (shorthand in the diplomatic community) with the tagline “Welcome to Arabia.” Projects like the East Dareen Beach Neighborhood Park are a part of visitor-friendly urban upgrades and other, subtler cultural shifts. A push toward diversification of the oil economy is driving some of this change. Having long had an inward focus and a certain air of closure to the outside world, Saudi Arabia is changing incrementally. The office is 14 people-10 in the Boston area and four in a satellite office in Taipei, Taiwan. The firm is intensely local, New England salt and sun, hand-drawing, and hard models-but also increasingly international, digital, and cross-border/cross-culture collaborative. The park was designed by the Salem, Massachusetts, office of Landworks Studio, founded by the principal Michael Blier, FASLA, in 1996. A sketch of the Saudi Arabian coastal park shows the density of programming flowing across drawing types. After industry comes quality of life in the era of urban development. The park is a storage unit for TSE and is a major part of a national plan to provide public spaces throughout Saudi Arabia. Jubail is a major industrial center in fact, it is one of the largest industrial cities-and was once dubbed the largest civil engineering project-in the world, since its designation as a focus for Saudi industrial development in 1975. The 70-hectare park opened in 2020 and provides a significant new public space for the city of 684,000 people. The East Dareen Beach Neighborhood Park site in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, is a serious place: Bounded by a missile silo to the north, its double shore of coast and island form results from a dredge-ravaged coastline-and it is a major part of the city’s treated sewage effluent (TSE) program.

By Jessica Bridger East Dareen Beach Neighborhood Park in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Local and global, analog and digital, Michael Blier leads Landworks Studio into the wide world.