A calendar of events in and around the cultural life of magpie Click on the event name and its website will open in a new tab. You can look for specific events from the search bar at the top, or [ … ]
There’s not much of the original Abu Dhabi to be seen in the city; the original pre-20th century fishing village was probably little more than a collection of barasti huts, maybe with a few more substantial coral- and stone-based buildings [ … ]
Gensler might have begun life as a Californian interior design studio, but these days it’s a multifaceted built-environment behemoth, still big in its original sphere (it heads the 2023 Interior Design Top 100 Giants list) but now probably the largest architectural practice in [ … ]
Dates and an initial slate of participants have been announced for the second Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT); it will run from 11 November to 10 March 2024. Curator Tosin Oshinowo has previously unveiled its title and theme – The Beauty [ … ]
The National Pavilion UAE has detailed its participation at the upcoming 18th Venice Biennale of Architecture. Curator Faysal Tabbarah has put together an exhibition with the title Aridly Abundant; it suggests that arid environments can be transformed into spaces of [ … ]
Alserkal Avenue opened its multidisciplinary space Concrete back in 2017, a hyper-versatile brutalist box that was the first building OMA designed in the UAE. Since then it has hosted a rich and appropriately diverse portfolio of exhibitions and events. To [ … ]
Art centres have many roles, but to magpie’s way of thinking there are two that are key to their function – one conceptual, one practical. The first: to introduce its audience to art (and by that we mean ‘artistic and [ … ]
Faysal Tabbarah, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Architecture at the American University of Sharjah, has been named by National Pavilion UAE as the curator for the UAE’s participation in the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia [ … ]
Next year’s Sharjah Architecture Triennial will bear the title The Beauty of Impermanence: An Architecture of Adaptability. This theme refers to the culture of re-use, re-appropriation, innovation, collaboration and adaptation in the Global South, created by issues of scarcity and [ … ]
Sharjah Art Foundation’s Flying Saucer redevelopment has been selected as one of the 20 projects shortlisted for the 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The 20 projects have been selected by an independent Master Jury from a pool of 463 [ … ]
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