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Palm Jebel Ali artificial islands in Dubai rise from the sand after 20 years

t's been confirmed that the Palm Jebel Ali project is going to be finished, 20 years after its inception.

How to Build and Design a Cost-Effective Backyard Kitchen

Outdoor kitchens are inside gardens, greenhouses or on your favorite patio space. They are green, sustainable and liveable.

Tiny house built from diapers and concrete

An entire tiny house was built with a used diaper and concrete mixture.

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.

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

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Jordan’s $6 Billion Aqaba–Amman Desalination Project from the Red Sea Moves Forward

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What are AWG air-water generators, and why they aren’t a golden-bullet solution

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Why does eczema so often begin in childhood and how can we prevent it?

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What Makes Artificial Turf Like AstroTurf Safe? University Research and Independent Testing Reveal Key Factors

A comprehensive analysis published by AstroTurf experts on turf field safety identifies several critical factors that separate premium synthetic surfaces from standard installations.

Haman’s Fingers, A Moroccan Purim Specialty

There’s feasting at home on the night and the next day, and to make sure everyone gets good things to eat, families send out packages of treats to friends and neighbors. Traditional goodies are hamentaschen, and other treats like our chocolate nut clusters .

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