The nearly invisible Maraya Concert Hall

That TikTok you saw of someone touching a giant mirror in the desert wasn’t fake.

It was likely filmed deep in the tree-less wilderness of northwest Saudi Arabia, where the Guinness World Record title for largest mirrored building on earth is held.

Maraya Concert Hall / Guardian Glass. Copyright: GIÒ FORMA STUDIO ASSOCIATO S.r.l.

The building was desitgned by Giò Forma Architects Designers & Artists as an “attempt to build non-architecture.

The main auditorium houses 500 seats. The venue includes a stage and a retractable window that reveals rock formations illuminated at night. Apparently the kitchen had to be assembled the day before the opening.

All photos below from Giò Forma