A rural community school in India's remote Thar Desert by Diana Kellogg Architects invites criticism for being disrespectful toward traditional desert architecture…
Architecture Community architecture Education Rural architecture
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Architecture Interviews Sustainable designAnarchitect, Studio Toggle and Binchy and Binchy discuss the complexities of designing for arid desert region
Designing for the desert terrain is not only a matter of expertise and technical know-how from the point of view of the site topography, structural and building materials knowledge, but it requires an innate…
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Architecture Hotel design Landscape architecture Leisure attraction TravelAidia Studio to design 25 luxury pods with collapsible shells in Abu Dhabi’s Empty Quarter desert
Mexican architecture firm, Aidia Studio, has been commissioned to design a complex of 25 luxury hotel pods with collapsible shells, located in the Rub’ al Khali Desert, also knows as the Empty Quarter in…
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Architecture Competitions Landscape architecture Leisure attraction Urban designOF Studio wins competition to design undulating desert landscape feature at Dubai Creek Harbour
UK-based OF Studio has won a competition by property developer Emaar to create a new “landmark structure” on a 6,300m² plot within the 5,600,000m² Dubai Creek Harbour waterfront development in the United Arab Emirates.…