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Why not visit include the New Citizens School by Godwin Austen Johnson? It is conceived and developed by Al Zarooni Emirates Investments and designed by Godwin Austen Johnson (GAJ). This school facility aims to inspire and stimulate. It features a teacher training foundation, excellence centre and K-12 school.
We also post details about the W Dubai – Mina Seyahi, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Street, by Aedas with Interior Designer: Blink. This 5-star beachfront resort project is an extension to the existing Le Meridien hotel.
Finally, we feature Sharjah Flying Saucer Brutalist-style building rehabilitation by SpaceContinuum Design Studio / Mona El Mousfy. The architects reveal the core structure by removing the grey and orange aluminum cladding.
The Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), along with Seddiqi & Sons Investment and Dubai Contracting Company LLC, celebrate inauguration of Rolex Tower, a 59-story mixed use tower located on Dubai’s prestigious Sheik Zayed Road.
A total of 3.5 million man hours have so far been spent since work started on site and over 60,000 cubic meter of concrete has been poured on one of the largest construction projects still being developed in the UAE.
The Index mixed-use tower in Dubai wins Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Award, beating a record number of nominations to be judged best new high-rise building in the Middle East and Africa.
With the launch of MidEastPan and towards the Forum of Themes and Sites in the coming September a Design Ideas Competition is being held. This architectural competition is an open invitation for ideas and projects within the Built Environment in the Middle East.
The leadership of the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation support appointment by the Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as an independent monitor.
In Abu Dhabi, the famous London architects Foster + Partners are building the Central Market, a complex of shops, offices, hotels and apartments. The key feature of the 500,000 m² complex is a shopping mall based on the example of a typical Arab Souk, a traditional market.
Denton Corker Marshall’s design for a commercial tower/mixed use complex in Dubai has won the Tall Buildings category in the MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards.
The grand prize in the international architectural competition to design the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) Federal National Council’s (FNC) New Parliament Building Complex has been awarded to Ehrlich Architects, the Los Angeles, California, design firm.
Conceived as a monument and memorial to the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding president of the UAE, the Museum will be the centrepiece of the Saadiyat Island Cultural District and will showcase the history, culture and more recently the social and economic transformation of the Emirates.
Construction is now well advanced on the Abu Dhabi Ladies Club by Tony Owen Partners and UPA planning. This unique facility has been designed specifically for women in the UAE. It provides a range of health, education, child care and sporting facilities for women.
Proposed design for the MASDAR HQ conceived as a new type of Landmark: an architecture that seeks its inspiration from timeless traditional, regional architectural models that respond to climate and culture, and re-interprets these in a matt building.
RMJM were once very active in the UAE but in late 2008 they scaled back their workforce after a large number of projects were postponed or abandoned as the credit crunch hit the Middle East.
The facade gives the hotel the name, it is not only an eyecatcher – the implication of the facade structure is a code – a special matrix code to be named – QR Code.
In close proximity to the world-famous Emirates Palace, at Corniche Road – the beach promenade – a premium location in the centre of Abu Dhabi, the planned hotel aims to position and prove itself among high-class business hotels.
We were inspired by the deconstructed form of a tennis ball and translated the shapes and forms of the dissected ball into the buildings. The distinctive curves of the seams are apparent in the roof lines of the buildings.
The centrifugal power of the whirlwind is interpreted into this dynamic and vibrant Arena design, reflecting the energy and growth of the Middle East region. The metaphoric UAE Arena generates a strong architectural and visionary icon.
The Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) signed an agreement with Studio Daniel Libeskind and Siemens AG to collaborate on the design and building of “Innovation City” – a state-of-the-art academic and technological hub which will be the future home to Abu Dhabi Men’s College, CERT, and HCTs Central Services division.