AL JAZEERA PAINTS
ROUNDABOUT
دوار الجزيرة للدهانات التراثي · أبها
A painted ribbon
at the gate of Abha.
Al-Qatt Al-Asiri — the geometric wall painting that the women of Asir have used for centuries to decorate their homes — is lifted off the wall and wound into an 18 m spiralling ribbon at the centre of a new five-leg roundabout on the northern approach into Abha. A paint company’s landmark that is also a tribute to the region’s oldest painters: red, green, blue and yellow triangles and diamonds turning in the sun, ringed by twenty timber lantern poles that light it warmly at night.
All studies, the island layout, design development, the technical drawings and the BOQ (bills of quantities) for this project were prepared by Mohamed Bider for AMSY Group, with the lantern-pole ring and the visualisations.
- Site survey & island layout
- Landmark design & studies
- Lantern pole design
- Technical drawings
- BOQ — bills of quantities
- Visualisation
Al-Qatt ribbon on the island’s short axis — two painted bands spiralling around a steel spine.
Timber lantern poles at 9 m, ringing the island and lighting the ribbon at night.
Colour rosettes at 4.50 m in the planting — the paint maker’s mark in the landscape.
Island of 72.0 × 35.8 m, seen first and last on the road into the city.
On the northern
approach into Abha.
The roundabout is cut into the hillside where Abu Huraira Road meets Marhaba Alf Road. Five legs meet here — the climb to the ridge-top to the north, the dual carriageway south toward Al Mansak and the city edge to the east — so the island is the first thing drivers see as they arrive in Abha.
- 1The roundabout (approximate)
- 2Abha city centre
- 400 m walking radius
- Site
- Abu Huraira Road × Marhaba Alf Road (طريق مرحبا ألف), Abha
- Junction
- New five-leg roundabout, cut into the hillside
- Island
- 72.0 × 35.8 m, approx. 2,110 m²
- Status
- Design 2026 · island works under way (September 2026)
From construction site
to landmark.
The drone survey of 2 September 2026: kerbs, carriageway and markings complete, the island still unformed subgrade. Drag the sliders — the same drone frames with the design.
ExistingProposed
SurveyLayoutStudies.
The island and its landmark studied from the plan and the measured layout to the build-up of the ribbon, the section through the island and the lantern pole. Select a study.
Materials
& colours.
The four colours of Al-Qatt — red, green, blue and yellow, edged in black and white — on panels set in weathering steel; aged timber and black steel for the poles; Abha stone, basalt gravel and lawn on the island; one warm light temperature at night.
The roundabout,
visualised.
The approved scheme in its real setting: the ribbon, the lantern ring and the rosettes on the island, from the air and from the road, by day and by night.
Design
development.
Before the lantern ring and the rosettes were added, the ribbon was tested on its own — its proportion against the mountains, its colours at sunset and at night, and the painted panels up close.
On site.
September 2026: the road works are complete and the island is being prepared — temporary works, the formed circular feature that the design keeps, and the cast reinforcement bed for the landmark.
Design and delivery: AMSY Group. Sources: Al Jazeera Paints Heritage Roundabout design studies, measured layout, lantern-pole drawings and visualisations (2026), drone survey 2 September 2026.
All studies, the island layout, design development, the technical drawings and the BOQ (bills of quantities) for this project were prepared by Mohamed Bider for AMSY Group, with the lantern-pole ring and the visualisations.