Architecture
Finding 50 to Follow
The magpie team is once again putting together its annual list of the 50 most exciting, innovative and stimulating people in the UAE who are making a difference to the cultural and creative life of […]
Design
Crafts
Design and crafts support programme by Expo 2020
A newly launched Expo 2020 Design and Crafts Programme will offer “creative, technical and economic support” to “local brands and emerging talents” in the UAE. According to the press statement released during Dubai Design Week, […]
Design
Chairpersons: winners of the Herman Miller / DIDI Ergo Chair competition
Dubai Design Week’s many delights included the exhibition of five designs for ergonomic seating. Herman Miller had partnered with students and faculty from the Dubai Institute of Design to bring us ‘Ergo Chair—Student Designs for […]
Award
Taken with a pinch of salt: the Audi Innovation Award winner
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 […]
Design
Making a better world: young designers at Global Grad Show
The Global Grad Show is one of the best reasons for Dubai Design Week, in magpie’s view. The young are always going to produce some of the most imaginative design thinking, even if they may […]
Art
Luxury through a long lens: the LouvreAD’s winter show
Could there be a better exhibition for the UAE? The Louvre Abu Dhabi’s big winter show is 10,000 Years of Luxury, a title which manages to press all the right buttons – heritage and tradition […]
Design
Detailing Dubai Design Week
The fifth edition of Dubai Design Week, which is describing itself with justification as “the largest creative festival in the Middle East”, will run 11-16 November with its most substantial programme yet – over 200 […]
Architecture
Ibda design selected for UAE’s Venice Architecture Biennale exhibit
Wael Al Awar and Kenichi Teramoto, Principal Architects of Dubai’s Ibda design, have been appointed as the curators for the National Pavilion UAE at the 2020 Mostra di Architettura di Venezia, the architecture section of […]
Award
LAGI prize for Masdar park goes to shape-shifting ‘clouds’
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 […]
Competition
Flamingo watch: winning designs for Al Wathba wetlands
The winning designs for the competition to design a flamingo observation platform and connecting boardwalk for Abu Dhabi’s Al Wathba Wetland Reserve have been published. The platform is intended as a new architectural landmark for […]
