The Red Sea Mall is a shopping mall

Shopping mall

A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...

 located in the northern suburb of Jeddah

Jeddah

Jeddah, Jiddah, Jidda, or Jedda is a city located on the coast of the Red Sea and is the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia. It is the largest city in Makkah Province, the largest sea port on the Red Sea, and the second largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital city, Riyadh. The...

 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

. The mall is located on the western side of the Al-Malek Abdulaziz Road (King Abdul Azis Road, Malek Road) between the King Abdulaziz International Airport

King Abdulaziz International Airport

King Abdulaziz International Airport is an aviation facility located 19 km to the north of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Named after King Abdulaziz Al Saud, the airport is Saudi Arabia's third largest air facility and busiest airport by passenger. The airport occupies an area of 15 square kilometers...

 and the Red Sea

Red Sea

The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez...

 coast. It boasts some 242,200 square meters of built area. A hotel and seven story office building will be attached. The Mall has 18 entrances and 4,000 parking spaces. Main facilities are a Danube supermarket, Oceanica and Aquatic Games City. On opening it has both the “biggest indoor water fountain” and the largest glass covered area in Saudi Arabia.

Layout and Design

The basic design is a curved building (120°) with the main entrance in the center of the inner curve leading to a set of central courts. A curved "Central Boulevard" runs through the whole length of the mall connecting some stair wells and with the floors open in some middle sections providing daylight to all floors. On the ground floor smaller "East" and "West Boulevards" run parallel to the larger central one. Besides the central courts two larger and two smaller "Avenues" link the boulevards in right angles. On the first floor, based on the same stair wells the layout is less regular while in the basement only the "Central Boulevard" and the central courts provide shops with the rest of the space left to the car park. On the west side in the middle of the outer curve, in a rectangular block connected to the curved part, there are a Bowling center in the basement, a large Danube Hypermarket on the ground floor and the "Oceanica" theme park on the first floor. As in most large Saudi Arabian shopping Mall praying areas are provided. There is also a men and a women mosque on the first floor near the theme park.