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Women: Foreword by Kerem Cengiz

For LWK + PARTNERS’ third installment of the Red Envelope journals, themed...

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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...

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

Architecture has long been used as a secondary character in films –...

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The serendipity of architecture and time

Osaka-based writer Nader Sammouri explores the relationship between architecture and film as...

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Madinat as-Salam: The history of Baghdad’s first urban plan

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.

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Fouad Street: The oldest planned, still inhabited street in the world

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.

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St. Regis Chicago: exploring the world’s tallest tower designed by a woman

An exploration of the world’s tallest tower designed by a woman, and...

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Opinion: Kourosh Salehi writes on the conditions of sprawling, dense cities

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?

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Designing for live stream

With theatre dating back thousands of years to the Bronze Age, the...

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Karwa Mosque: A Dome-less Islamic Prayer Space in Malaysia

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.

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Women: Foreword by Kerem Cengiz

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

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

The serendipity of architecture and time

Madinat as-Salam: The history of Baghdad’s first urban plan

Fouad Street: The oldest planned, still inhabited street in the world

St. Regis Chicago: exploring the world’s tallest tower designed by a woman

Opinion: Kourosh Salehi writes on the conditions of sprawling, dense cities

Designing for live stream

Karwa Mosque: A Dome-less Islamic Prayer Space in Malaysia

ARound: Najaf and its traditional house architecture

ARound: Najaf, a city between al-Kufa and al-Hira

ARound: Najaf’s schools and madrasas

ARound Najaf: The khans of old downtown

ARound: Najaf and its mosques

ARound: Najaf – The Mausoleum of Imam Ali

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