NYU Abu Dhabi and ADMAF have unveiled the winning submission for The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award 2020. The installation, titled Haweia (Arabic for ‘identity’), was designed and built by three architecture students from AUS – Laura AlDhahi from Kuwait, Sara […]
Designing something to sit on is a staple of design school projects and a no-brainer as a subject for a competition: a chair an everyday object that nearly everyone uses, a classic in terms of asking function and form to […]
If you’re in the creative or cultural arena, and if your income has been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic, you may qualify for government support – but don’t hang about: applications have to be made before close of play […]
The Rifat Chadirji Prize for 2019, for the design of a new art museum in Sharjah, has gone to Rolando Rodriguez Leal and Natalia Wrzask from Aidia Studio in Mexico City. The winners will receive the Rifat Chadirji Prize Statuette, […]
The 2019 Audi Innovation Award for the Middle East was presented to Amman-based design studio Twelve Degrees at the opening of Dubai Design Week. Simplification was this year’s theme, and Twelve Degrees came up with a beautifully simplified dispenser for […]
The winner of this year’s Land Art Generator Initiative competition has been announced at the 24th World Energy Congress in Abu Dhabi. The first prize – $40,000 and the possibility that the structure will be built on a new public […]
The winners of the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture have been announced, and among them is the Wasit Wetland Centre in Sharjah. The winners share $1 million. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was established in 1977 “to identify […]
dwp (design worldwide partnership) has won the first Herman Miller Living Office Award for workspace design in the Middle East. dwp’s rather good work for the Smart Dubai offices in Dubai Design District won it the prize. The Smart Dubai […]
The Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA) has announced the ‘special award’ recipients for its eighth season of competition. These go to “photographers that have contributed positively to photography as an art-form and industry” and […]
Here it is: the 2019 edition of magpie’s 50 To Follow. Like most retrospective lists, it’s intended as a conversation piece. We fully expect you to disagree with our inclusions, and with the (admittedly pretty arbitrary) ranking that we’ve given […]
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