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- A City Withpout A Roof: Gaza
I stumbled upon the piece by Mr. Mishari Al-Naim from Al-Binaa magazine. Here’s an excerpt:
لا أستطيع مشاهدة الأخبار ولا أتحمل المشاهد المأساوية في غزة فحتى كتابة هذا المقال (مطلع العام الميلادي الجديد والجيش الإسرائيلي يقوم بهجمة شرسة صباح أول يوم في العام الجديد) سقط 400شهيد وأصيب أكثر من 2000والحكومة الإسرائيلية المصغرة تجتمع وعلى وجه أولمرت [...]
- On Pei And Qatar
PHOTO: Museum of Islamic Art
This is a piece on Qatar’s newest addition to the region, the Museum of Islamic Art by I. M. Pei. It’s not an extensive one but I found it interesting in some way.
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- UAE Worker Rights?
For those architects and designers of you who live in the UAE, and are obviously familiar with the working conditions in the construction business, this is a very important piece of article for you.
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- Dubai’s Image
I found this article in Gulf News 2 days ago, titled ‘Building Dubai’s Image’ by Rhus Jones. It started off by the ‘International Image of Dubai’ and marketing that on billboards and subways of Europe, and how the city established the ‘Brand Dubai’ that is also being pushed further and further.
Dubai is indeed an international [...]
- Architecture Between Prizes And Inhabitants
Architecture is for sure a complex result of Problem Solving and User Satisfying, As Vitruvius put it: Firmness, Commodity, & Delight. But how are Prize-Winning-buildings designed by respective architects holding up to that ‘formula’? An article by Matt Weaver from the Guardian discusses the issue:
The truth about those iconic buildings: the roofs leak, they’re dingy [...]
