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Dubai World Trade Centre
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.
[CASABLANCA] Sustainable Market Square
Architectural Competition Concours d’Architecture [CASABLANCA] Sustainable Market Square Winner Team members /// _Tom Van Odijk _Alexine Sammut _David Baars Country: Netherlands
Queen Alia airport by foster+partners opens in amman, jordan
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.
OMA chosen to masterplan Airport City in Qatar
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.
The 900-KM Nile City
(Proposal) An agricultural-urban condition that may be called the “Nile City,” a 900-km-long, 10–15- km-wide, high-density, rural strip in the desert
Desire and Disaster in the Contemporary Palestinian Landscape
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 […]
Valley City in Qatar
by MZ Architect, was the winner for regeneration and master-planning AwardWorld Architecture Festival 2012 – Shortlisted
Where Light Dwells
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, […]
Arabic [perfect harmony] Calligraphy Space – [Architecture]
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. introduction for an […]
The Face and the Tongue of an Arab
“Sisyphus,at this moment, has the face and the tongue of an Arab” Sadik Kwaish Alfraji Graphic and Art Installation Artist
Mathaf Arab Museum Of Modern Art In Doha, Qatar
Architect: Paris-based architecture firm Jean-François Bodin youtube Facebook
On-longing: a project by Saba Innab
Saba Innab Saba Innab is an artist and architect whose interests in urbanism and the production of space are reflected through her work. Born in 1980, Innab graduated with a […]
“Objects” – Documentary on Hassan Sharif
Considered by many to be the founding father of the UAE’s contemporary art scene, Hassan Shariff‘s work is increasingly concerned with the negative effects of consumerism. Hassan Sharif was born […]
WRITING ON THE WALLS: TRANSITION, A PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES BY MYRIAM ABDELAZIZ
Myriam Abdelaziz Transition series, 2011 Photographs http://www.myriamabdelaziz.com/
DAR HI HOTEL – TUNISIA
Dar HI, an eco-lodge on the tip of Northern Africa, in the south Tunisian desert. The boutique hotel is the second collaboration (the first is a guest property in Nice) between French […]
Is it a Mashrabiya House ?
Architects: Senan Abdelqader Location: Jerusalem, Palestine Project Area: 1700 sqm Photographs: Amit Giron
Typographic Matchmaking in the City
A documentary film directed by Jan de Bruin and edited by Ans Kanen. Music by Philipp Ernsting Jan de Bruin Productions and the Khatt Foundation Shot on several locations in […]
Fragmentation (1)
Arab art fragmentation is a series of articles, a form of population segregation. Caused by our fragmented understanding of what is Arab Art.
