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- Colorful Amman
Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) seems to be working really hard on fixing Amman’s image, first with the billboard regulations that I’m absolutely mixed up on because I haven’t found anything official on the topic yet, and secondly because this whole Billboard Vs. Architecture thing has been confusing me for a while now. But From what [...]
- Sheikh Zayed Bridge
It’s well known by now that Zaha Hadid is building a bridge in the UAE, specifically connecting the island of the capital, Abu Dhabi, to the mainland and to the northern emirates. Visible to a passing by driver going to Abu Dhabi crossing Al-Maqtaa Bridge, which is the first bridge built in the sixties to [...]
- International Design Forum 2007
There is a great deal of buzz going around ‘Design’ in the arab world, I think attention to this powerful concept is increasing by the day and hopefully in the right direction.
International Design Forum is the first worldwide scale design platform originating from the middle east, it is obvious that this is a dedicated project [...]
- Ali Omar Ermes
April’s ID featured paintings with huge letters that made me think of Hassan Massoudy first, but it was someone else called Ali Omar Ermes, a Libyan-born artist and calligrapher that is based in London now.
Honestly I don’t find his works to be that creative in terms of ’style’, he insists to be a painter rather [...]
- Nomadism In The 21st Century
Dubai-Based quarterly architecture magazine, 2A , is focusing in its next publication on ‘Nomadism in the 21st century’. One of my department’s instructors, Mr. Michael Schwarz, has been invited to be the guest editor of the next issue.
What is good is that they’re offering opportunities for writers and designers to participate in this, by submitting [...]
