The Sharjah Architecture Triennial has been reconstituted as an official Foundation, under the commendably predictable name Sharjah Architecture Triennial Foundation (aka SATF). The Emiri Decree signed a couple of weeks ago by the Ruler of Sharjah, Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad [ … ]
Ramadan used to be a quiet time. Now, not so much – especially not in Abu Dhabi, where NYUAD is hosting the inaugural Ramadaniyyat, a week-long program of events to mark Ramadan that has been put together by NYUAD’s three [ … ]
The Nigerian architect and designer Tosin Oshinowo has been appointed curator of the second Sharjah Architecture Triennial, opening in 2023. Noted for her socially responsive approaches to architecture, design and urbanism, Oshinowo is the principal of cmDesign Atelier (cmD+A), the [ … ]
The 2021 World Architecture Festival Awards have been announced, and they include some accolades for the Emirates – though only for four projects, all of which are (deservedly) serial winners of such competitions. In the Completed Buildings – Display category, [ … ]
The awards for this year’s Venice Biennale Architettura have been announced, and what is arguably the most important of them – the Golden Lion Award for best National Participation – has gone to the National Pavilion UAE. Entitled Wetland, and [ … ]
The World Architecture Festival has announced the shortlist for its 2021 awards, celebrating buildings and landscapes completed across the world between 2019 and 2021 (a pandemic influenced time range that also reflects WAFX’s postponement from January this year to December). [ … ]
The National Pavilion of the United Arab Emirates’ upcoming exhibition for the Venice Biennale of Architecture – which opens 22 May and runs to 21 November – will feature a large structure built from an innovative, environmentally friendly cement made [ … ]
Some of the Middle East’s best modern architecture comes in the form of mosques. There’s real potential for designers in the combination of sociological and religious constraints, the openness of the main prayer spaces and the traffic flows around them, [ … ]
Sharjah’s environmental management company Bee’ah is further burnishing its credentials as “the Middle East’s sustainability pioneer”. Alongside the daily grind of waste disposal, Bee’ah is putting a lot into the desire of Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi to make the [ … ]
You’ve seen how much concrete gets used in the UAE: the place wouldn’t exist without it. In fact, the modern world couldn’t exist without concrete for buildings and infrastructure. And despite technological advances, concrete – or, more specifically, cement – [ … ]
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