{"id":63038,"date":"2025-08-13T02:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T02:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63038\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T02:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T02:29:10","slug":"john-mcaslan-partners-to-open-saudi-base-as-middle-east-income-trebles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63038\/","title":{"rendered":"John McAslan + Partners to open Saudi base as Middle East income trebles"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the company\u2019s accounts for the year ending 31 October 2024<\/a>, the practice\u2019s turnover in the Middle East has rocketed from \u00a36.6 million in 2023 to \u00a317.8 million.<\/p>\n

Its workload in the region now makes up 83 per cent of its total reported worldwide income of \u00a321.5 million. This figure itself has doubled from the \u00a310.3 million stated as its last turnover in unaudited figures for 2023.<\/p>\n

The practice, which has expanded its ownership to 15 members of the existing team, posted a pre-tax profit of \u00a33.9 million in 2024. This is also a significant increase on the \u00a31.1 million from the previous accounting period.<\/p>\n

During the last trading year, its average workforce numbers rose from 42 to 48.<\/p>\n

The practice already has studios in London, Edinburgh, Sydney and New York, and has said it will launch a \u2018dedicated\u2019 office in Riyadh this autumn in \u2018response to growing regional demand and a deepening commitment to cultural collaboration\u2019.<\/p>\n

Among McAslans\u2019 projects in the Middle East is a \u2018major cultural facility\u2019 opposite the UNESCO-listed At-Turaif site in Riyadh.<\/p>\n

Ongoing projects elsewhere in the world include the transformation of George Square in Glasgow, the Passivhaus-led Sa\u00efd Business School in Oxford, which completes later this year, and a new dental university in Malawi.<\/p>\n

In its accounts statement, company chair John McAslan said that the current trading year was set to be even rosier. \u2018Looking forward to the financial year of 2024\/2025,\u2019 he wrote, \u2018the practice expects to surpass this year\u2019s financial performance due to the strong pipeline of secured new commissions in the UK and internationally.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the company\u2019s accounts for the year ending 31 October 2024, the practice\u2019s turnover in the Middle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-63038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}