All Middle East articles
-
OpinionBuilt environment professionals confront the enormity of the challenge ahead in Gaza
Emma Dent Coad on how Architects for Gaza is presenting bold ideas for recovery, rebuilding communities, and fostering hope in the aftermath of widespread devastation
-
NewsAdjaye Associates’ interfaith complex opens in Abu Dhabi
The new centre is intended as a focus for interfaith learning and understanding
-
NewsHodder to meet Israeli and Palestinian architects
But president rejects Palestinian request to address RIBA
-
NewsRIBA backs Brady's Israel suspension call
RIBA votes for suspension of Israeli architects from international body
-
Blogs
Prince vs Preservationists, Gropius under threat and nudity in New York
It's time for another news round up and this one is quite entertaining, even if News Junkie does say so herself. In Paris, a member of the Qatari royal family is attracting the wrath of architects, but not for the same reasons he would in dear old England. Meanwhile in ...
-
Blogs
A shiny shortlist and fast-tracking the registration process in Japan and New Zealand
If only all competitions made the shortlist public... the entries for the Calgary National Music Centre tell you nearly everything you need to know about the practices on the shortlist.In other news, the UAE struggles to produce innovative architects says a local tutor (not really news, but nice to ...
-
Blogs
The future is wooden
It seems that the days of concrete high-rises and brick houses may be numbered - especially in disaster prone urban environments - as experiments show that wood could be the most economical (and eco friendly) earthquake resistant building material.Elsewhere on the world wide web, the New York Time's Nicolai Ouroussoff ...
-
Blogs
Benetton has designs on Tehran
Benetton has made a name for itself by being controversial. Its clothes might be mind-numbingly dull, but its advertising campaigns were unforgettably shocking in the early 90s. And now the fashion brand has found a new way to attract attention - although it can't possibly have predicted quite how controversial ...
-
Blogs
America's climate change bill, architectural sudoku spin off and Gehry's new shack
It's been a busy few days in the architecture journalism world; Frank Gehry, airports in India, an Israeli architect's Sudoku spin off, America's Climate Change bill, Guerrilla architects in Sydney...It's a bumper edition of international news junkie, but one we hope will leave you very satisfied indeed.House Passes Bill ...
-
Blogs
Moscow takes matters into its own hands, Rem gets reduced and RMJM eyes up Iraq
All those projects that have gone on hold in Moscow may get a new lease of life after City Hall showed a bit of initiative and took matters into its own hands by setting up a group to buy land off the developers.Elsewhere in the world Rem Koolhaas' tower in ...
-
Blogs
Ennis House hits the market and Dubai is down but not out
Despite the best efforts of the Ennis House Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright's house has hit the market and is being sold as a private property for a cool $15 million. Seems that keeping the house in good working order was just too expensive for the Foundation to keep paying out.Also ...
-
Blogs
Libeskind goes prefab and Frank Lloyd Wright's equal opportunities approach
It seems that Frank Lloyd Wright, a man whose relationships with women in his private life are infamously scandalous, was actually an early leader in employing female architects. So no more excuses from the profession please; if it could be done then then there's no reason why women shouldn't be ...
-
Blogs
Elitism in Australia and Renzo Piano on working through the recession
Renzo says his studio isn't really feeling the effects of the recession, which is nice for him if a little galling for everyone that is. But that doesn't mean he isn't empathetic. Apparently, after the Pompidou, Renzo got no work for years and he now sees leaner times as an ...
-
Blogs
A new island development for Abu Dhabi and more rumours about Gehry's Atlantic Yards
Just when you thought that work in the Middle East was drying up, along comes Abu Dhabi with plans for a while new island district. The question is, will it be an island of starchitects a la Saadiyat Cultural Island, or something a little more accessible?In New York there's more ...
-
Blogs
Does Rem Koolhaas really harbour a "contempt for sustainability"?
The claws are out at Cornell University in the US, where a new campus building by OMA for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning has caused a bit of a row. The building has finally been given the green light, but not without its opponents lashing out at Rem ...
-
Blogs
Pascall & Watson get the Louvre and green schools for the US
So, the House of Representatives has passed a bill to build one of the most ambitious schools programmes in recent history. But it's not the first time that something like this has been passed by the House and ignored by the Senate. Fingers crossed it goes through this time.Elsewhere ...
-
Blogs
Is Russia telling porkies about their Olympic site?
Looks like Russia has been rumbled. Apparently their "big building site" for the 2014 Winter Olympics has hardly been touched and is hosting guerrilla gardeners.And poor Calatrava, whose design for the World Trade Centre transport hub took a bit of a battering earlier this week, has now had his design ...
-
Blogs
RMJM defies the trend and Aussies get protected
A year ago, News Junkie could name at least ten practices that were talking about opening branches in the Middle East. How times change. Now the news that RMJM has enough work to open three new offices in Qatar, Bahrain and Turkey is is almost shocking. At least we know ...
-
Blogs
Freelon's winning streak and a pedestrian-friendly Abu Dhabi
In News Junkie today we take a look at an interview with Philip Freelon (who is designing the new Smithsonian with Adjaye), glance at plans to make Abu Dhabi more pedestrian friendly and – shock horror – the New York Times has realised architects are having a tough time...Freelon's winning ...
-
Blogs
A peace centre - with panic rooms
The Guardian's Steve Rose visit Israel to review Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas' Peres Peace House.Rose sees it as one of Fuksas' "poetic one-offs" though his piece is peppered with awareness of the irony that is is named after Shimon Peres and "while the Peres Centre arranges for the treatment of ...