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

Interview: British-Syrian academic Ahmad Sukkar speaks on architecture education in the region

Interview: Passionate explorer Deena El-Mahdy is bridging the gaps between the classroom and the workplace

Interview: Designing developments for vulnerable communities with Yasaman Esmaili

Interview: Lina Ghotmeh discusses architecture as history’s great narrator

Interview: Architect Shabnam Khalilpourfar is creating a modern identity for her hometown in Iran’s West Azerbaijan Province

Interview: Iranian architect Sanaz Ghaemmaghami hopes to change the face of contemporary Iranian architecture

Interview: Cairo Heritage School on adapting architectural education programmes in Egypt

Featured

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

Interview: British-Syrian academic Ahmad Sukkar speaks on architecture education in the region

Interview: Passionate explorer Deena El-Mahdy is bridging the gaps between the classroom and the workplace

Interview: Designing developments for vulnerable communities with Yasaman Esmaili

Interview: Lina Ghotmeh discusses architecture as history’s great narrator

Editor's pick

Iraqi architect races to document Mosul’s standing doorways and arches

A round up of projects by Egyptian architect Dr Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdelhalim

Gallery: Buildings by Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji

Editor's Pick

Interview: Architect Shabnam Khalilpourfar is creating a modern identity for her hometown in Iran’s West Azerbaijan Province

Interview: Iranian architect Sanaz Ghaemmaghami hopes to change the face of contemporary Iranian architecture

Competition

Design

A Living pedestrian bridge over the Nile competition

Latest

Interview: Cairo Heritage School on adapting architectural education programmes in Egypt

Interview: Omani architect Ali Jaffar Al-Lawati discusses launching the Middle East’s most successful architecture radio show

Interview: Iranian studio ZAV Architects shares manifesto for a better architecture

Interview: Iraqi architect Jalal B. Mejel Algaood discusses ‘Villa Mesopotamia’, a community space on the Euphrates River

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

Interview: Hanaa Dahy on the architect’s responsibility towards sustainable construction

A step into Baghdad’s first brutalist house: The Yasoub Rafiq Residence by Rifat Chadirji

Interview: IWlab on addressing architectural practice in Syria

International competition invites photographers to showcase concrete in everyday life for a chance to win $10,000

Op-ed: Tirana’s dwindling cobblestone structures reflect Albania’s neglected Oriental-Islamic heritage

Architecture

Interview: Cairo Heritage School on adapting architectural education programmes in Egypt

Based in the Egyptian capital, the Cairo Heritage School has... Read More

Interview: Omani architect Ali Jaffar Al-Lawati discusses launching the Middle East’s most successful architecture radio show

Omani architect and radio host Ali Jaffar Al-Lawati is known... Read More

Interview: Iranian studio ZAV Architects shares manifesto for a better architecture

Iranian practice ZAV Architects is committed to a research-driven, case-specific... Read More

Design

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

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

Beirut design studio reveals new furniture pieces for shrinking apartment sizes

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

Beirut design studio T Sakhi uses Murano glass for new tableware series

The new collections combine the special glass with recycled material.... Read More

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Art

Spanish photographer portrays Dubai’s cityscape as glossy mirage

Spanish photographer Manuel Alvarez Diestro captured Dubai’s buildings at what... Read More

This Palestinian photojournalist is documenting Gaza’s athletes in quarantine

Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Al-Zahra’a Shbair depicts life in Gaza through... Read More

This photo series blends contemporary architecture with ancient Iranian sites

Iranian artist Mohammad Hassan Forouzanfar has released new images as... Read More

Construction

International competition invites photographers to showcase concrete in everyday life for a chance to win $10,000

Launched by the Global Cement and Concrete Association, the competition invites... Read More

Op-ed: Tirana’s dwindling cobblestone structures reflect Albania’s neglected Oriental-Islamic heritage

In the capital of Albania, the largest Muslim society in... Read More

Moroccan and German students build a home out of hemp and solar panels

Part of the ‘Solar Decathlon’ competition, the project has received... Read More

Call for participation

A living pedestrian bridge over the Nile competition

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