A Guide to All the Costs of Purchasing a Home
One way to cover the mortgage is to build a sustainable home that screams AirBNB. Rent on peak holidays and crash at your parents.
Architecture
The Sustainability And Efficiency Benefits Of Smart Building Technology
Sustainable building is the only future we can predict with climate change. Follow The Arc at the Green School in Bali.
Innovation in Construction: The interplay between software, hardware and education
Cybe is pushing the boundaries and collaborating with Lab040 in Eindhoven to create the first-ever, 3D printed, four-story apartment.
Heatherwick set to turn Saudi Arabian desalination plant into crafts museum
The British design studio of Thomas Heatherwick's is designing the new Jeddah Central Museum in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to be located in a former desalination plant by the Red Sea.
See the world’s largest 15-minute city, The Line
Saudi Arabia's crown ruler has decided to put oil money profits from Saudi Aramco, its national oil company and largest company in the world, to an interesting use: he is building 110-mile long 15-minute city called The Line on the coast of the Red Sea.
Is Nahum Tower in Bat Yam, Israel the ugliest building in the world?
Is this the world's ugliest building? And why we keep things when they are not perceived as ugly.
Go to mass in a Cairo, Egypt church built out of a cave
Historically marginalized and evicted from Giza in 1970, a community of Coptic Christians took up residence at the foot of the Mokattam hills in south east Cairo.
Oxagon is a floating port city on the Red Sea of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is planning on building a floating port called Oxagon, as part of its Neom development. They say it will be the world’s largest floating structure.
The Rig theme park turns Saudi money steampunk
The Rig is a revamped oil rig off the coast of Saudi Arabia, to be steam-punked into 3 hotels, 800 rooms, 11 restaurants, a roller coaster, a water slide, a Ferris wheel
House of Saud palaces built from mud
House of Saud's original palaces now opens to the public at Turaif. The site is important to Islam as the birthplace of Wahhabism, an austere form of Islam.
Dubai’s new Vertical Forest skyscraper
An Italian architecture firm has presented a Vertical Forest skyscraper plan for Dubai. The same firm built the two towers of Bosco Verticale in Milan. Vertical Forest Dubai, rendering by Stefano Boeri Architetti
Kamran Heirati’s floating city of Iran
Copycat? Back in 2018 Heirati envisioned a linear city for Iran. Unlike Saudi Arabia's The Line, Heirati considers the needs of the locals in his design
Video reveals 150-mile-long mirrored skyscraper The Line in Saudi Arabia
This video shows the design for The Line, a 550 yard-tall, mirror-clad skyscraper designed to house nine million desert-dwellers in Saudi Arabia.
The Line has started construction, Bedouin protestors evicted sentenced to death
Drone footage of The Line underway. Meanwhile Bedouin who live there are sentenced to death for protesting eviction.
Learn earthen architecture of the Middle East
This one-month training course will use Al Ain, UAE as an open-air laboratory for participants to learn practical, hands-on methods for preserving earthen buildings and archaeological sites.