Compact cities not only preserve the environment, but they also generate synergies across urban systems that are smarter and provide more equitable growth.
Architecture
In Riyadh, context-driven architecture marks the city's development during the 1970s, 80s and 90s, but where does the architectural identity of the Saudi capital stand today as it tries to navigate between its contemporary foundation and its future?
Between reality and fantasy, the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul tells the real story of fictitious characters.
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.
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.
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.
Iraqi academic No’man Bayaty explores Erbil’s Justice Tower, and provides insight into its architectural form and the urban challenges it poses.
In part six of Round City’s ARound: Najaf series, Iraqi architect and doctor Turath Jamil examines the city’s historic khans.
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?
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.
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.
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
Iraqi academic No’man Bayaty explores the influences and work of the internationally...
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.
In search of Baghdad’s identity, Paris-based architect Zeina Magazachi explores four different...
Ahmadreza Hakiminejad explores Scottish architect James Mollison Wilson’s work in Iran at...
Meet the international architecture and research platform applying 3D scanning for the...
Currently at the University of Sharjah, the Mohamed Makiya Prize finalist shares...
The Egyptian architect and academic hopes to impact the regional construction sector...
The Iranian architect and educator shares insight on her projects in Afghanistan,...