Between reality and fantasy, the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul tells the real story of fictitious characters.
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Karwa Mosque: A Dome-less Islamic Prayer Space in Malaysia
In a suburb on a Malaysian island, a mosque designed by an emerging female architect, Eleena Jamil, challenges traditional Islamic design in Southeast Asia.
Osaka-based writer Nader Sammouri explores the relationship between architecture and film as both archives of urban development, with a special...
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?
An analysis of the rise of female students of architecture in the UAE, and the paths that lay ahead of...
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.
UK-based Iraqi architect Ayad Al-Tuhafi shares his experience of working with Rifat Chadirji on his last design. On 29 April...
An exploration of the world’s tallest tower designed by a woman, and the legacy it carries. In September 2016, when...
Iraqi architect and city planner Abbad Al Radi reflects on the professional and personal ways his life was influenced and...
For LWK + PARTNERS’ third installment of the Red Envelope journals, themed ‘Women’, the company’s MENA managing director, Kerem Cengiz,...