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Thomas Heatherwick – “sunken oasis” for Abu Dhabi

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News: British designer Thomas Heatherwick has revealed plans to create a cavernous public park in Abu Dhabi beneath a fragmented canopy resembling the cracked surface of the Arabian desert. Occupying a 125,000 […]

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Al Hamra Firdous Tower/ Kuwait

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By Gary Haney Tall lobby, tow sky lobbies, as sky garden, six service floors and 62 office floors. currently under constructions. The Lobby structure is one of t he most […]

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Higher Atlas / Barkow Leibinger Architects

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Architects: Barkow Leibinger Architects – Gustav Düsing Location: Marrakech Year: 2012 Photographs: Johannes Foerster Marrakech is a city that offers an indigenous, a madly inventive, and vivid hand- craft culture oscillating between ad-hoc kitsch and […]

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New City Development – Al Dhakira \ Qatar

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RRC Studio presents the new development for the coastal city of #Al_Dhakira / #qatar , a proposal for a 275.000 sqm intervention including residential and commercial settlements. Only 60 km away from the capital #Doha

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Qatar National Convention Centre by Arata Isozaki

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source: http://www.dezeen.com/2013/08/22/qatar-national-convention-centre-by-arata-isozaki/ Gigantic tree-like columns support the overhanging roof of the Qatar National Convention Centre by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, captured in these new shots by Portuguese photographer Nelson Garrido. The […]

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Art and Architecture from a complex region, editorial comment

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We will try to answer a number of points that we receive in a dally bases about the scoop of this website. The recent surge of interest in contemporary visual, […]

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arab world, architecture, art

[CASABLANCA] Sustainable Market Square

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Architectural Competition Concours d’Architecture [CASABLANCA] Sustainable Market Square Winner Team members /// _Tom Van Odijk _Alexine Sammut _David Baars Country: Netherlands

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Women at the Forefront of Saving Syria’s Heritage

September 21, 2020by hibaalkhalaf Leave a comment

Syrian women at home and abroad are leading efforts to safeguard Syria’s cultural heritage and ensure that traditions are preserved in the wake of years of conflict and widespread displacement. […]

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{Film}_Arab Women in Architecture

November 25, 2015by AW Leave a comment

Arab Women in Architecture” is a documentary that has been produced as part of the activities of the 2013 sixth cycle of the Omrania | CSBE Student Award for Excellence […]

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#NEWPALMYRA Rebuilds Ancient Culture with Digital Tools

November 2, 2015by AW Leave a comment

http://www.newpalmyra.org/ The #NEWPALMYRA project launched a new online community platform and data repository dedicated to the capture, preservation, sharing, and creative reuse of data about the ancient city of Palmyra. […]

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Interview: Bahia Shebab

June 28, 2015by AW Leave a comment

Originally posted on الفَنّ العَرَبِيّ:
Egyptian-Lebanese street artist, designer and Islamic art historian Bahia Shebab talks about how she was able to respond to Egypt’s revolution through creating street art. “It’s the…

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Eungie Joo’s Cautious Sharjah Biennial Fails To Engage with Reality

June 19, 2015by AW Leave a comment

 Source:https://news.artnet.com/art-world/sharjah-biennale-review-280672 With biennials continuing to proliferate (see Vienna Gets Its Own Biennial), it might be time to stop and ask: how is their success to be measured? Surely, the quality […]

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All the World’s a Mosque

June 16, 2015by AW Leave a comment

“To pray or not to pray”, “Being inside or outside of the mosque”:  this seems to be the dilemma that falsely divides Muslims between good and bad believers. More than […]

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The Islamic city and architectural Orientalism

March 25, 2015by AW Leave a comment

By: Tariq Khamis Book review: Early twentieth century studies of the Islamic city take an Orientalist approach that fails to understand the true rationale behind the cities architectural heritage. In […]

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arab world, orientalism, Urban

New Museum Curator Natalie Bell on How to Understand Contemporary Arab Art

March 24, 2015by AW Leave a comment

By Andrew M. Goldstein New Museum curatorial associate Natalie Bell (Photo by Benoit Pailley, courtesy of the New Museum) Over the past decade, the Middle East’s participation in the international […]

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ARABIAN LIBRARY BY RICHÄRD+BAUER

February 20, 2015by AW Leave a comment

“The unique program of the library is based on contemporary bookstore concepts, and includes a popular library with a 120,000 volume collection as well as coffee bar and bookstore elements. […]

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Qatar Courthouse by AGI Architects

February 16, 2015by AW Leave a comment

Rendering © Poliedro Architectural Visualizations The proposal designed by AGi architects for the Qatar Courthouse competition  has been awarded second prize, on over 30 design teams, organized by the Qatar […]

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Qatar World Cup Memorial by 1week1project

February 13, 2015by AW Leave a comment

The construction works towards the World Cup Qatar 2022 has brought a sad and growing number of workers killed. These fatalities have no name; His death does not make news, […]

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The DNA of Cities

February 12, 2015by AW Leave a comment

By Abdelbaseer A. Mohamed The built environment is a product of socio-economic, cultural, and political forces. Every urban system has its own ‘genetic code’, expressed in architectural and spatial forms […]

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Islamic or (not)?

August 26, 2013by AW Leave a comment

Islamic or not? That is not the question. It is about the relationship of us and our experience and our body to our surroundings. It’s about passing through place. about wandering through space and time, and about borders and crossings, and exchanges.

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Palestinian architects look to the past for eco-friendly homes

August 22, 2013by AW 1 Comment

     

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