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Mabrouk! Bahrain wins the Golden Lion at 2010 Venice Biennale | With a surprising contemplation on the state of the country's coastline, Bahrain wins highest honors for its first participation in the Venice architecture biennale. We'll be posting a review of the e. […]
ABU DUBAI: A Forward Tale of Two Cities That Could Only Be One | by Mishaal Al Gergawi originally published in Al Manakh 2: Gulf Continued The year is 2040. The United Arab Emirates is 69 years-old and under the reign of its fourth president, a son of its founding. […]
Qatar’s bid for World Cup 2022: To Build a Nation or a Region? | If Qatar is simply out to buy another piece of the nation-builder’s toolkit, then by all means it should host alone. But if it is looking for a platform to convey the intangible qualities of trust,. […]
A new post at the Huffington Post: Camp Ka Champ! | 'Dubai Idol,' as the event is popularly known, gets a blurb in the local UAE papers around this time of year. The articles raise readers' eyebrows, cause grins and evoke a warmth, perhaps out of self-. […]
Al Manakh’s latest post at Huffington Post | Dubai's major English-language paper Gulf News reports today on a phenomenon that plagued Dubai throughout 2009, but now it comes with a new twist. The abandoned car -- left to acquire a sand coating. […]
Informal Urban Development in Bulgaria | Case study: The Faculteta Romani neighbourhood, Sofia, Bulgaria Meeting and workshop, June 3–5, 2010 ADAPTations 1 in collaboration with Archis Interventions and Frontal (Bucharest) One of the major. […]
Magic Blocks presented at Moscow Architecture Bienniale | Central House of Artists, May 26 – June 8, 2010 The second Moscow Architecture Biennale focused on the question of how to modernize the existing city. As curator Bart Goldhoorn stated, "In the first. […]
Archis Interventions in Cyprus | Workshop and Research in Cyprus, May 14-16, 2010 In collaboration with the Urban Research & Development Center (URDC) of Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimagusa/Famagusta The meeting - which incl. […]
Architecture of Peace - How do we materialize peace? | Conference and Workshops in Rotterdam Auditorium, Netherlands Architecture Institute (Nai), Rotterdam 3. + 4. May 2010 A cooperative project of Archis Interventions, the NAI, Partizan Publik and the U. […]
Calea Mosilor - Behind the Concrete Curtain | Workshop in Bucharest Archis Interventions, Zeppelin and Point 4 in cooperation with Hackenbroich Architekten The cityscape of Bucharest is dominated by huge, standardized public housing estates, buil. […]
