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Yamama Hospital Building in Baghdad: Feminine Resilience Confronting the Ferocity of Concrete

In an architectural scene devoured by concrete towers and occasional glass façades disregarding their environment, the Yamama Hospital building in Baghdad emerges as an icon redefining the relationship between material and light and heritage and modernity.

Awards and Competitions

The New Basra Waterfront Competition

Basra, southern Iraq’s most important city, is opening up again after many years of war and recovery. To reflect this, Tamayouz Excellence Awards invites architects and designers to submit their ideas to transform the underused Dakeer Island into a vibrant recreational urban destination for locals and visitors.

New publication ‘Islamic Architecture: A World History’ provides insight into 1,400 years of architectural development

A journey through time and space: Eric Broug’s new book showcases the beauty of Islamic architecture around the world. UK-based...

Architecture Red Envelope Specials

Designing for live stream

With theatre dating back thousands of years to the Bronze Age, the craft of stage design reveals an intricate evolution...

Architecture Red Envelope Specials

Thresholds of cinematic space: exploring the significance of doors and architecture in film

Architecture has long been used as a secondary character in films – setting the scenes by providing context, foreshadowing storylines...

Computations in Architecture: Advancing Architectural Education in Iraq’s Curricula

Digital technology should serve as a means to enrich local architectural identity and address contemporary challenges, emphasizing the importance of embracing technology as a tool for innovation rather than a threat to tradition.

Awards and Competitions

Tamayouz International Graduation Projects Award

amayouz invites students of architecture, urban design, urban planning, architecture technology and landscape design worldwide to register and submit their graduation projects

Architecture Red Envelope Specials

Interview: The Symbiotic Connection Between Film and Architecture Explored with Dr. Juhani Pallasmaa

With more than two dozen books, 300 essays in over 30 languages and severalbuiltworks including Helsinki’s Kamppi Centre (2003-2006), Finnish...

Architecture Red Envelope Specials

The serendipity of architecture and time

Osaka-based writer Nader Sammouri explores the relationship between architecture and film as both archives of urban development, with a special...

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Architecture Red Envelope Specials

ARCHITECTURE + FILM: Foreword by Kerem Cengiz

For LWK + PARTNERS’ fourth installment of the Red Envelope journals, themed ‘ARCHITECTURE + FILM’, the company’s MENA managing director, Kerem...

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