Middle East possesses a strong spending power that few other economies can contest, presenting greater medium to long-term opportunities than most other parts of the world, albeit the downturn in Dubai. The lack of study on risk man-agement for Malaysian firms venturing abroad especially in the...
Just as captivating is Reykjavík’s Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center, a collaboration between the architecture firms Henning Larsen and Batteríið and artist Olafur Eliasson. Together they conceived an asymmetrical structure clad in a skin of LED-illuminated glass-and-steel “bricks,” whi...
The California-based group,WATG, is one of the world’s leading multi-disciplinary design firms. They recently shared their list of major hospitality design trends for 2019. WATG's interior design studio is Wimberly Interiors. Both WATG and Wimberly Interiors have designed over 240 projects in 52...
firms such as bjarke ingels group, zaha hadid architects, mvrdv, and alejandro aravena, among others. the result is a boom that now includes the construction of a 984-foot-high skyscraper, six buildings over 650 feet tall, and another 21 above 325 feet tall. in addition, four more towers...
practice has been development of one of the TOP TEN Consultancy in QATAR and the MIDDLE EAST. Being a first and only employee of the company beside its Owner back in 2006, I have managed to raise and convert it to one of the strongest architectural consultancy firms ...
Architects & Firms Zaha Hadid Architects Joining the likes of Renzo Piano, Antonio Citterio, and Arquitectonica, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) is the latest bold-face name tapped to design a luxury condo development along a compact, fast-evolving stretch of Collins...
Emaar Development is hosting an International Open Design competition for the Design of the Iconic Mosque at the heart of the ambitious new world-class mixed-use waterfront development Dubai Creek Harbour. The Development is a 5.6 Million sqm site and is expected to have 48,500 resid...
Architects & Firms Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Dubai People/Products Iconic skyscrapers, especially those that strive for the fleeting title of “world’s tallest building,” are rarely the progeny of cold logic. Their backers invariably are motivated by ambition and ego. The architect does not con...
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al hamra tower is a multimedium building that gives the illusion of movement, as if in mid-transition of being cocooned into a sheet of glass. crafted by the firms skidmore, owings & merrill and ramshir and callison, the structure stands an impressive 1,358 feet tall. photo: getty ...