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Reusable, stackable emergency shelters for Syrian refugees in need

Our breakaway story about collapsible woven shelters (click here) designed to restore dignity to refugees around the world was so popular, we decided to...

Egypt’s ghostly abandoned theater – litter writ large

On the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, tucked in the dusty foothills of an Egyptian mountain range, sit hundreds of seats in an...

Collapsible woven refugee shelters powered by the sun

More than 40 million people worldwide have been displaced from their homes and left to find shelter in strange lands. Maybe they find a...

Living crop wall to showcase Israel’s agricultural genius at the 2015 Milan Expo

Israelis are renowned not only for their clean tech innovation, but also smart, savvy and water-efficient agriculture. This genius will be on display at the...

Casablanca’s ‘Gardens of Anfa’ are wrapped in bougainvilleas and jasmine

Maison Edouard François designed a colorful new mixed-used residential master plan for Casablanca, a cosmopolitan Moroccan city made famous by a movie with the...

Aganetha Dyck works with bees to create incredible honeycomb art

Canadian artist Aganetha Dyck knows honeybees not just as pollinators that ensure the rest of the world has food on the table, but as...

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

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

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

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...

Dubai’s Burj Al Arab earns green globe certification

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,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Broken trees from epic storm sprout public art at Jordan University

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...

Forams up close reveal jewels at the beach

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...

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

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,...

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