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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.
Al Manakh: Gulf Continued is an essential and comprehensive guide to the cities of the Gulf, penetrating media clichés and delving deep into the new challenges facing the region in the wake of the financial crisis.
International architect Sparch is showcasing its first GCC project Rihan Heights, a 250,000 sqm luxury residential development, at the four-day Cityscape Abu Dhabi convention which began yesterday.
Official opening of the Masdar Institute campus, first solar powered building at Masdar City, UAE, design Foster + Partners, architects
The world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa (formerly known as Burj Dubai), officially opened Jan. 4 in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. Architect Adrian Smith, who designed Burj Khalifa while at the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, attended the opening ceremonies
Architect Adrian Smith advises that no new habitable floors will be added to the tower, giving a stronger idea of this secretive skyscraper project’s final appearance.
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Iris Bay building in Dubai, UAE, was an early opportunity for Atkins to explore the challenges of sustainable design in a hot climate and incorporates both passive and active environmental features.
Conceived as a linear expression in colored glass and thin concrete plates, the classroom building is accentuated by a rooftop pool covered by a large cantilevered concrete roof.
Porsche Design and Dubai Properties announced that the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been commissioned to design, in co-operation with Porsche Design a high quality office tower and a luxury residential tower in Dubai. Completion is due 2009.
In 2006, Yas Island was a flat landscape of desert and scrubland surrounded by navigable water, east of Abu Dhabi City and close to the main highway past the existing airport. To the north the views stretched out past low lying islands to the open ocean of the Arabian Gulf.
A hotel designed by UK-based international architects RMJM in Abu Dhabi has welcomed its first guests in time for the Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix.
The future wellbeing of cities around the globe depends on mankind’s ability to develop and integrate sustainable technology. Masdar City is the city of the future; positioned at the forefront of integrating sustainable technology into modern architectural design.
AquaDomi Hotel series are concept designs for floating hotels, designed and developed for investor groups, in co-operation with AquaDomi. The series is based on a rational, prefabricated modular construction, built up on floating concrete pontoons.
Burj Al Alam tower building features a crown that consists of a sky garden, club facilities and Spa. The designs include a full curtain wall system, with three external curtain wall ‘petals’.
The phenomenon of evolution expands on a continuous line, linking point A to point B, endlessly … In order to evolve, we must point out to the past and improve it. Evolution is in that sense a repetition of past steps, marching towards the future.
If Le Corbusier compared 1920’s Paris to capillaries without arteries what would he say about the strange occurrence of Dubai? In his examinations in towards a new Architecture, he prophesizes the imminent death of a city that grows without geometric principals as structure.
Scheduled for completion in 2012/13, the Louvre Abu Dhabi will showcase the interrelationships among artistic achievements from different cultures around the world, from the most immemorial to the very latest, across borders of technique and geography.