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Zaha Hadid and Fosters working on £2.6bn Oman schemes

By 2024-02-22T11:18:00

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Zaha Hadid Architects and Foster & Partners are among 30 companies which have signed contracts with the sultan of Oman on plans which include more than 100,000 homes in the country.

Worth £2.6bn in total, the majority of the agreements are for the first phase of Sultan Haitham City, a planned extension to the capital city of Muscat named after Oman’s sultan Haitham bin Tariq.

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