Size: 1,040,000 m2
Client: Dubai World Trade Center
The first Phase of the Dubai World Trade Center District, at the heart of the new business district in the city, arguably the most important area of real estate in the Gulf and the Middle East.
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_Tom Van Odijk
_Alexine Sammut
_David Baars
Country: Netherlands
Today marked the official opening of queen alia international airport in amman designed by foster + partners.
the airport has a flexible modular solution that allows for future expansion at a rate of 6% per annum
for the next twenty-five years, increasing capacity from 3.5 million to 12 million passengers annually by 2030.
News: Rem Koolhaas’ studio OMA has been selected to masterplan a business and residential development linking the city of Doha in Qatar with the new Hamad International Airport.
Called Airport City, OMA’s 10-square-kilometre masterplan comprises four districts along a “green spine” running parallel with the airport’s runways
Ancient Egyptians developed a sustainable civilization in part by utilizing climatic cycles to improve agricultural production, which led to the establishment of urban settlements in the Nile River Valley. Today, parallel to the Nile River runs the highway, and the railway is in the vegetation strip. Every 120 kilometers there is a city of roughly 200,000 inhabitants, which is completely unmetropolitan and provides basic city services for the region. The crops are always the same: clover, rice, maize, corn, cotton, sugar cane, and tomato.
The Zone explores the intersections between neo-liberal and colonial regimes in the contemporary Palestinian context. By evoking the phantasmagoria of the dream-world and the dystopia of the catastrophe that marks this landscape, the project reveals a situation of surreal absurdity and a growing sense of the uncanny. Navigating a dialectic of dreamworld and catastrophe, desire and disaster, past and present. The incongurence is arresting.
Source:http://issuu.com/ruanne-basel/docs/desire_and_disaster?mode=window
by MZ Architect, was the winner for regeneration and master-planning
AwardWorld Architecture Festival 2012 – Shortlisted
