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Iraq’s leaning Hadba Tower is dangerously close to collapse

Faisal O'Keefe - February 25, 2014

Wait a minute, there, Pisa, you're not the only contortionist building on the block! A beloved old minaret in a Mosul mosque that leans 8...

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Dubai, Abu Dhabi ban high energy incandescent light bulbs

Tafline Laylin - February 21, 2014

After July, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of the world's largest oil producers, will no longer import high energy incandescent light bulbs. And...

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Marrakech biker chicks wear bootleg Chanel and Louis Vuitton Abayas

Tafline Laylin - September 10, 2020

If you thought that women from the Middle East and North Africa all wear drab black blankets over the head and stay home to...

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Walking architecture envisions a built environment based on human motion

Faisal O'Keefe - February 17, 2014

Daydreams can catalyze real change. Look to the far-reaching influence of designers who choose to work in the hypothetical, where unrestricted creativity is unfettered...

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El Gouna: Egypt builds MENA’s first carbon-neutral city

Faisal O'Keefe - February 16, 2014

El Gouna, a resort city on Egypt's Red Sea Riviera, is set to become the first carbon-neutral city in that nation, in Africa, and...

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Burj residents sweat over developer threats to cut A/C and elevator services

Tafline Laylin - February 13, 2014

Residents of the world's tallest building in Dubai are being punished over unpaid maintenance fees - some of them unjustly. In order to pressure...

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Pushing on for the sodium ion battery, in Nature

Karin Kloosterman - February 11, 2014

One of the most pressing problems of modern society is how to convert and store energy. Lithium ion batteries have been the main energy...

Cities

First pics of Foster + Partners futuristic incubator building at Masdar City

Tafline Laylin - February 1, 2014

Masdar City is starting to shape up with a roster of new buildings. Siemens recently completed their LEED Platinum headquarters, the new IRENA headquarters...

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Lebanon’s largest landfill gets blocked by protestors

Maurice Picow - January 29, 2014

Lebanon has had its share of pollution and garbage issues laundered out on Green Prophet. There have been stories of garbage trucks dumping their...

Cities

Oldest Hebrew inscription from Jerusalem deciphered: “the wine was cheap”

Karin Kloosterman - January 23, 2014

Archeologists have deciphered what they believe to be the oldest Hebrew texts originating from the Holy City of Jerusalem: "the wine was cheap", is...

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Siemens opens Middle East’s greenest office building at Masdar City (PHOTOS)

Tafline Laylin - January 23, 2014

When the Middle East eco-city developers from Masdar approached David Ardill, Partner and Design Director at Sheppard Robson, to design Siemens' new corporate headquarters at...

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Can there be more Masdar eco-cities in the Middle East?

Tafline Laylin - January 21, 2014

Can there be more Masdars? Can this experimental eco-city be replicated in other Middle Eastern or North African countries that don't have Abu Dhabi's...

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This wavy Expo pavilion will eat greenhouse gas in 2015

Tafline Laylin - January 18, 2014

Remember how exciting it was when we first saw pictures of Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates. Masdar is the futuristic terra-cotta curvy buildings...

Cities

The Shard is getting a neighbor and Qatar is footing the bill

Tafline Laylin - January 16, 2014

There was great hullabaloo when The Shard was completed just one year ago. Not only was it financed by Qatar, but the 306 meter...

Cities

Time to tour … Erbil? Hey, it’s the Arab Tourism Capital of 2014

Kelly Milone - January 6, 2014

With outstanding infrastructural improvement due in large part to projects launched by the cutting-edge real estate development company, Empire World, Erbil in Iraq is...

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