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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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Locals in India come together after disastrous earthquake for community-led reconstruction

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.

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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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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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Saudi Arabia and its path towards a contemporary architectural identity

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?

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

Locals in India come together after disastrous earthquake for community-led reconstruction

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

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

Saudi Arabia and its path towards a contemporary architectural identity

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

Sudanese street artists give Khartoum a makeover

The serendipity of architecture and time

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

Women: Foreword by Kerem Cengiz

ARound: Najaf – The Mausoleum of Imam Ali

ARound: Najaf’s schools and madrasas

ARound: Najaf and its mosques

ARound: Najaf and its traditional house architecture

ARound Najaf: The khans of old downtown

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

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