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?
Specials
Osaka-based writer Nader Sammouri explores the relationship between architecture and film as both archives of urban development, with a special...
For LWK + PARTNERS’ third installment of the Red Envelope journals, themed ‘Women’, the company’s MENA managing director, Kerem Cengiz,...
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.
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.
Based in Santiago, Alejandra Celedón Förster is a Chilean architect, researcher and curator currently positioned at the Pontificia Universidad Católica...
With theatre dating back thousands of years to the Bronze Age, the craft of stage design reveals an intricate evolution...
In Bhuj, a municipality in the Kutch district of western India’s Gujarat, a network of community members, government officials and non-profit development organisations worked together to devise an emergency re-urbanisation plan following the disastrous 2001 earthquake. One particular case study takes us to Sardar Nagar, a rehousing settlement that threatened to become a slum of thousands.
Between reality and fantasy, the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul tells the real story of fictitious characters.
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...