Muscat: South Al Sharqiyah Governorate announced on Monday, July 1, 2024 the competition to design the monument for Sur, the Arab Tourism Capital 2024.
The Governorate of South Al Sharqiyah announced today the competition to design the monument for Sur, the Arab Tourism Capital for the year 2024 AD, which targets Omani youth who specialise in the fields of architecture, design, plastic arts, urban planning, architecture and civil engineering, and those who have a hobby and possess skill in fields related to the subject of the competition.
His Excellency Dr. Yahya bin Badr bin Malik Al Maawali, Governor of South Al Sharqiyah, said that the governorate’s announcement of a competition to compete for the design of the memorial monument for Sur, the Arab Tourism Capital today comes as confirmation of targeting young people to express their creativity in line with the desired goals behind this competition.
Al Maawali added that choosing the city of Sur as the capital of Arab tourism stimulates the implementation of more projects and initiatives to strengthen and develop the tourism sector, while striving to move forward towards broader areas of development in the governorate’s states, based on its abundant components.
His Excellency the Governor of South Al Sharqiyah pointed out that the competition’s supervising committee has prepared a technical guide that contains the conditions and standards that must be adhered to, the participation mechanism and the competition’s timeline. Pointing out that in the first stage, ten participants will be announced who will qualify for the second stage of the competition, to present the project idea to the jury, and three contestants will qualify to be crowned in the first three places.
Al Maawali stressed that the competition will witness great competition in light of the Sultanate of Oman’s abundance of brilliant national competencies, characterised by creativity and mastery, and possessing an intelligent architectural vision that employs ancient history with the values of modernity and contemporaneity.