A German landscape architect has been working in Arab countries for the last 30 years, designing parks, gardens and boulevards. He grants us a rare glimpse of the otherwise very private sphere of the Saudi royal family. The gardener’s work involves marrying the highly modern lifestyle of the contemporary royals with ancient traditions and natural features.
Pneumatic constructions, lightweight varieties of steel, rope nets and membrane sails. New construction forms and materials modelled on natural phenomena – a spider’s web, for example, the surface of a soap bubble, the animal skin of a wing. Spectacular buildings are being erected all over the globe, fantastically light creations on the highest technical and scientific level.