Photographs from Riyadh by Alan Hill — the metro, the building sites and the men working them, and Green Riyadh going into the desert.
The metro viaduct carrying the track over a highway.
Men in white thobes standing by a wall on a residential street.
A cement mixer on a building site, a worker beside it.
A worker in a hard hat and high-vis handling the chute of a cement mixer.
A worker in a yellow hard hat, face covered against the heat, beside a truck.
A building site with a tall crane standing behind it.
Red and white barriers across a building site, a figure working under a parasol.
A worker sitting under a parasol among the site barriers.
A building under construction, wrapped in mesh.
Tower cranes standing over a site in full daylight.
Looking up at reinforcing steel and formwork against the sky.
Tower cranes across the skyline at dusk.
A Saudi flag flying over a vast excavated site.
A Saudi flag on a mast above a building site.
Bare footprints pressed into softened tarmac.
White crenellations running along a mud-coloured wall.
A wooden lattice pavilion with a bench inside.
A tall palm against a mud-brick wall.
The perforated canopy of the KAPSARC building.
The columns of the KAPSARC canopy receding into the distance.
A white hoarding with a green palm logo, apartment blocks behind.
A straight road running into desert haze beneath pylons.
Rows of saplings in planting bags set out across the sand.
Large white ducts along the side of an industrial building.
A small lit toilet at dusk, the moon above it.
Pylons against a sunset, the land in silhouette.
A pylon standing close in the blue hour.
Rows of plants growing under a greenhouse roof.
A man tending young plants in a greenhouse.
A warning sign for snakes and scorpions inside a greenhouse.
An avenue running between planted rows under netting.
Rows of young trees growing under a greenhouse roof.
A petrol pump with its scanner gantry.
A small mud-brick building among palms.
The Kingdom Centre at the end of a street at dusk.
A mud-brick wall with a door and triangular vents.
The Kingdom Centre rising above a street of parked cars.
Air-conditioning units on a rooftop against a blank wall.
An underground space lit blue, curved concrete overhead.
Barrels stacked in a concrete chamber under a single light.
An underground corridor with crates and barriers.
A large underground hall lit teal.
Groundworks for the Green Riyadh park, the city beyond.
A construction site with the towers of the financial district behind.
Young trees planted along an embankment of raw ground.
Young trees lining a track, bins set out between them.
Trees and undergrowth with the Kingdom Centre beyond.
The financial district towers across an empty lot.
An empty road at dusk under street lights.
The city at night, lit towers under a full moon.