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Interview: Alejandra Celedon Forster discusses the intersection of architecture, education, and history

Based in Santiago, Alejandra Celedón Förster is a Chilean architect, researcher and...

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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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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Sudanese street artists give Khartoum a makeover

In Sudan, decades of economic and political strife that marked the latter half of the 20th century, meant a lack of the necessary urban planning and regeneration of decaying areas. Following the 2019 revolution, the country’s streets and buildings have been given a makeover, courtesy of Sudanese street artists.

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How Istanbul’s Museum of Innocence balances between installation and exhibition

Between reality and fantasy, the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul tells the real story of fictitious characters.

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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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Yasmeen Lari: Pakistan’s First Female Architect

Pakistan’s first female architect is as determined as ever to continue improving the quality of life of her country’s most afflicted

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Beyond the quinquennial years: the rise of female students of architecture in the UAE

An analysis of the rise of female students of architecture in 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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Interview: Alejandra Celedon Forster discusses the intersection of architecture, education, and history

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

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

Designing for live stream

Sudanese street artists give Khartoum a makeover

How Istanbul’s Museum of Innocence balances between installation and exhibition

The serendipity of architecture and time

Yasmeen Lari: Pakistan’s First Female Architect

Beyond the quinquennial years: the rise of female students of architecture in the UAE

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

ARound: Najaf’s schools and madrasas

ARound: Najaf and its traditional house architecture

ARound: Najaf and its mosques

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

ARound Najaf: The khans of old downtown

ARound: Najaf – The Mausoleum of Imam Ali

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