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Five lockdown space designs submitted to Tamayouz Design Challenge that are sustainable

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ARound: Najaf’s schools and madrasas

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Interview: Reparametrize Studio on using AI for Syria’s post-war reconstruction

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Foster + Partners designs reusable face mask to fight Covid-19

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Madinat as-Salam: The history of Baghdad’s first urban plan

In Between: Foreword by Kerem Cengiz

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Erbil’s Justice Tower: an ironic landmark

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Architecture

Erbil’s Justice Tower: an ironic landmark

Iraqi academic No’man Bayaty explores Erbil’s Justice Tower, and provides insight into its architectural form and the urban challenges it poses.

Architecture

ARound Najaf: The khans of old downtown

In part six of Round City’s ARound: Najaf series, Iraqi architect and doctor Turath Jamil examines the city’s historic khans.

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Opinion: Kourosh Salehi writes on the conditions of sprawling, dense cities

Large dense and sprawling cities are part of an inescapable global reality. Their advantages have long been praised ever since the Modernists argued for “town as a machine for movement”, but what of their disadvantages? If regulations have shaped the affluent cities in the advanced economies, what of the unregulated or under regulated cities across the world?

Design

Interview: Egyptian initiative Film My Design hopes to spread awareness of regional creative landscape

Combining design, architecture and film, an emerging cultural initiative in...

Design

New video explores Zaha Hadid’s 1983 publication ‘Planetary Architecture Two’

Philip Michael Wolfson speaks with Nicholas Boyarsky about Zaha Hadid’s...

Design

Beirut design studio reveals new furniture pieces for shrinking apartment sizes

Borgi Bastormagi’s recent collection ‘Shaping 90’ features a series of...

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Sudanese street artists give Khartoum a makeover

In Sudan, decades of economic and political strife that marked the latter half of the 20th century, meant a lack of the necessary urban planning and regeneration of decaying areas. Following the 2019 revolution, the country’s streets and buildings have been given a makeover, courtesy of Sudanese street artists.