Dubai Design Week invites regional creatives to submit urban designs centred on this year's theme 'playfulness', with the selected winner receiving a cash prize. Read More
Architecture
In July 2020, South Koreans were shocked to find out that a North Korean who defected to South Korea a couple of years ago fled back to North Korea through the impermeable demilitarized zone (DMZ) after supposedly committing a horrendous crime. This crossing was one of the very few known unauthorised crossings over the past 70-odd years, where a civilian transgressed the impenetrable DMZ. Read More
For LWK + PARTNERS' second installment of the Red Envelope journals, themed 'In Between', the company's MENA managing director, Kerem Cengiz, offers an opening word on the meaning of the topic. Read More
Iraqi academic No’man Bayaty explores Erbil’s Justice Tower, and provides insight into its architectural form and the urban challenges it poses. Read More
In part six of Round City’s ARound: Najaf series, Iraqi architect and doctor Turath Jamil examines the city’s historic khans. Read More
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? Read More
Conceived in 762, Al-Mansur’s ‘Round City’ was an incredible example of early urban design, setting the stage for the Islamic Empire’s golden era. While today, Baghdad has undoubtedly grown beyond the double-ring masterplan, its original layout was then the region’s largest construction project, providing a throne from which the Abbasid dynasty reigned. Read More
23 centuries after it was first drawn in sand, the world’s oldest planned, still inhabited street continues to mark the ongoing transformations of an ever-evolving city. Read More
Chadirji’s buildings reflect the plight of Iraqis for the past half century: political prosecution and disturbance, destruction in wars, and abuse and disfiguration by the rulers Read More
Iraqi academic No’man Bayaty explores the influences and work of the internationally... Read More
Academic No'man Bayaty briefly explores the history of ornamentation throughout architectural history and makes a claim for its continuation in the years to come. Read More
In search of Baghdad’s identity, Paris-based architect Zeina Magazachi explores four different... Read More
Ahmadreza Hakiminejad explores Scottish architect James Mollison Wilson’s work in Iran at... Read More
Meet the international architecture and research platform applying 3D scanning for the... Read More
Currently at the University of Sharjah, the Mohamed Makiya Prize finalist shares... Read More
The Egyptian architect and academic hopes to impact the regional construction sector... Read More
The Iranian architect and educator shares insight on her projects in Afghanistan,... Read More
The Lebanese-French architect is known for several projects all over the world... Read More
Shortlisted for Tamayouz’s Women in Architecture and Construction Award, the co-founder of... Read More
Shortlisted for Tamayouz’s Women in Architecture and Construction Award, Ghaemmaghami and her... Read More