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
Blaine Ellis, Photographer
Source: http://archnet.org/library/webpages/blaineellis/
“In the tradition of sacred architecture, light has been a symbol of the transcendent, a metaphor for the unknowable. Sacred space becomes a visual theology, a sculpture in light that I then re-interpret through the medium of photography. These images in silver become a meditation that expresses man attempts at self-definition through matter, form and luminosity.”
All photographs displayed on this page are copyrighted by Blaine Ellis, rbinsf@earthlink.net.
Arches
Toledo, Spain
Arabic calligraphy, is the artistic practice of handwriting, or calligraphy, and by extension, of bookmaking
Architecture, is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction.
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for an Arab (person) it is pictorial, formal element, referencing a multitude of issues—religious, social, political and personal. within architecture or art it’s a way move, between ,in ,out and beyond.
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Arabic calligraphy in all its aesthetic and linguistic complexity is little understood in the West and often regarded as an art form belonging to the classic Islamic arts and, therefore, to the past. In fact, it plays an important role in contemporary Arab art. For centuries, the written word has been at the center of Islamic visual culture— a legacy that persists even today.
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calligraphic architecture from wael mashini on Vimeo.
Deriving architecture designs from the curvature of Arabic calligraphy.
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“Sisyphus,at this moment, has the face and the tongue of an Arab”
Sadik Kwaish Alfraji
Graphic and Art Installation Artist
