Design

Alvaro Siza makes it easier to visit the spectacular Alhambra palace in Spain

Tafline Laylin - February 25, 2014

The Alhambra palace and fortress in Granada, with its mesmerizing series of courtyards, gardens and vistas that turn light and shadow into toys, may...

Design

Provocative Israeli art explores the fake and fraudulent – but why?

Faisal O'Keefe - April 13, 2020

Israeli photographic duo Wyse + Gabriely concluded their first European exhibition at London’s Neu Gallery this month; an attention-grabbing presentation that purportedly explores “the...

Design

Dubai’s Burj Al Arab earns green globe certification

Faisal O'Keefe - February 20, 2014

Dubai’s iconic Burj Al Arab hotel has earned an international Green Globe Certification. Not as news-worthy as when Tiger Woods teed off its rooftop,...

Design

Desert Breath spirals on Red Sea remind us of troubled Egypt’s immense beauty

Tafline Laylin - February 20, 2014

To many Egyptians, the desert is a hostile place: water is scarce, terror cells hide in its vast expanse, or land mines make crossing...

Cities

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...

Design

Raanan Stern’s tiny Tel Aviv artist studio boasts stellar space management

Tafline Laylin - February 11, 2014

Square footage comes at a premium in Tel Aviv, as it does in New York and many other global cities, so designers Raanan Stern...

Design

Broken trees from epic storm sprout public art at Jordan University

Faisal O'Keefe - February 9, 2014

If a tree falls in the woods, it will be immortalized as amazingly clever artwork if Fu'ad Khasawneh is anywhere nearby. The Assistant Dean...

Design

Forams up close reveal jewels at the beach

Faisal O'Keefe - January 14, 2021

Drop some sand under a high-definition, three-dimensional light microscope and you’ll never look at a beach the same way again. Magnified 250 times, the...

Design

Beit Ha-Ahava: CA architect builds a house wrapped in love

Faisal O'Keefe - February 3, 2014

Bob Hale, of Rios Clementi Hale Studios, wrapped his house in LA's Cheviot Hills neighborhood in a perforated-metal screen like the Arabian screens the mashrabiya,...

Design

3D printed guns by Cody Wilson for art, liberation or moral perversion?

Faisal O'Keefe - November 19, 2020

Liberator gun, 3D printed by Cody Wilson. He is using benevolent ideas to create weapons to kill.

Design

Iranian rock gym in Polur village to overlook Mount Damavand

Tafline Laylin - February 9, 2014

Iran offers some of the world's most epic rock climbing, but only a small handful of hard core international rock climbers have tested...

Design

This boot sole detects land mines nearby

Tafline Laylin - October 6, 2022

Colombia and Egypt share at least one unfortunate plague: land mines. Nearly 20 percent of the world's land mines are strewn throughout Egypt's western...

Design

Shading fabric shields King Fahad National Library from Saudi sun

Tafline Laylin - January 29, 2014

Saudi Arabia isn't well known for its architectural subtlety, but Gerber Architekten's renovation of the King Fahad National Library in Riyadh suggests that the...

Design

Architect Red Hong Yi Plays with Her Food and Cooks Up Delicious Art (PHOTOS)

Faisal O'Keefe - January 20, 2014

It began as a goofy Instagram project. Malaysian artist and architect Red Hong Yi went on a month-long mission, creating a piece of edible...

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...

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