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Design: L.E.FT, Architects. This building occupies a renovated cross-vaulted space, adding a veiled steel structure and a plaza in front. The slender minaret is formed of thinly-sliced steel plates, linked horizontally through a canopy to a curved entry wall.
London-based architecture practice AL_A won an invited competition to design a new mosque building in Abu Dhabi. The Mosque is part of the World Trade Center developed by Aldar Properties, one of the largest developers in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Design: ONG&ONG Pte Ltd. The design of the mosque is focused on creating an open and inclusive atmosphere, which is inviting to worshippers and the community at large.
Design: APG Architecture and Planning Group. The whole facade comprises the 99 different names of Allah distributed on different elevations of the mosque in accordance with strict instruction of the holy Quran.
Aberdeen Mosque building, new religious project in Northeast Scotland – design by Makespace Architects, the newest and largest mosque in Aberdeen, the ‘oil capital of Europe’. It received planning permission in September 2013.
The SADAR+VUGA proposal for the new Central Mosque of Pristina has been awarded the second prize, whereas no first prize has been selected.
The impressive Jamia Mosque Sultania and Education Centre in the mill town of Brierfield, Lancashire, United Kingdom, is now complete following a ten year design and build project
The proposal deploys the most fundamental principle of the Islamic tradition, namely the sense of unity, to create a new city-level place of worship that is flexible enough to accommodate daily users and large Friday congregation.
For us, the design solution for The Central Mosque of Prishtina has as its foundation the notion that Prishtina is a bridge between the East and The West.
Typical mosque elements like the dome, minaret, portico are incrusted in our collective memory as the expression of the Islamic religious building. We used all those elements
The building is representative on a level worthy of a Central Mosque, not only by its monumental mass, but also by its contemporary architectural quality, symbolic expression of Islamic identity and tradition.
The main idea is to re-interpret the elements that constitute the Mosque, without pushing the limits of the already established principles of Islamic Architecture.
The new Central Mosque occupies a strategic position within the extended urban centre of Prishtina. The main urban road limits two distinct, modern parts of the city here.
Newham Council advised Tablighi Jamaat, whose temporary planning permission to operate a smaller mosque expired three years ago, that it has to stop using the mosque or face eviction and Newham Council compulsorily purchasing the land.
The circle form represents the universe and infinity (The symbol of infinity is formed by twisting a circle!). At the same time circle is the symbol of unity. Centric planned Ottoman mosques are circularized, permitted by extent of construction
Hackney, London E2 – a new 3 storey contemporary addition to an existing mosque in a listed building in a conservation area has been given planning permission by Tower Hamlets.
The Middle East Lighting Design Award was given to Speirs and Major Associates in recognition of the significant contribution the lighting has made to the internal spaces of the building and the technical level of difficulty in achieving the result.