{Film}_Arab Women in Architecture
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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Thomas Heatherwick – “sunken oasis” for Abu Dhabi
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 […]
#NEWPALMYRA Rebuilds Ancient Culture with Digital Tools
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. […]
Interview: Bahia Shebab
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…
Eungie Joo’s Cautious Sharjah Biennial Fails To Engage with Reality
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 […]
All the World’s a Mosque
“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 […]
The Islamic city and architectural Orientalism
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 […]
New Museum Curator Natalie Bell on How to Understand Contemporary Arab Art
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 […]
ARABIAN LIBRARY BY RICHÄRD+BAUER
“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. […]
Qatar Courthouse by AGI Architects
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 […]
Qatar World Cup Memorial by 1week1project
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, […]
The DNA of Cities
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 […]
Al Hamra Firdous Tower/ Kuwait
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 […]
Higher Atlas / Barkow Leibinger Architects
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 […]
New City Development – Al Dhakira \ Qatar
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
Islamic or (not)?
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.
Qatar National Convention Centre by Arata Isozaki
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 […]
Art and Architecture from a complex region, editorial comment
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, […]
Palestinian architects look to the past for eco-friendly homes
Shadi Ghadirian: Ctrl+Alt+Del
Shadi Ghadirian was born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran. She is a photographer who continues to live and work in Iran. Ghadirian studied photography at Azad University (in Tehran). After […]
Art & Architecture in the Arab world 