{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 […]
Category Archives: architecture
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 […]
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…
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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
Tallest Buildings
[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
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
Mathaf Arab Museum Of Modern Art In Doha, Qatar
Architect: Paris-based architecture firm Jean-François Bodin youtube Facebook
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
Art & Architecture in the Arab world 