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Sneak Peek at World’s Largest Women-Only University in Saudi Arabia

Most westerners imagine that Saudi women are completely deprived of opportunity, and in some cases that may be true, but the world's largest women-only...

Abandoned Dubai Flyover Resembles Easter Island Sculptures

Continuing the theme of mysterious abandoned developments, the identity of this one is better known than the desert lakes I featured in my previous...

Futuristic Zayed National Museum Cooled with Wing-Shaped Steel Towers

With Masdar City, Foster & Partners was the first international architecture firm to design buildings in Abu Dhabi that borrow from the region's desert-savvy...

Deadly Lake Natron Turns Animals into Ghostly Statues

The Middle East boasts some of the world’s saltiest waterbodies, but none approach the horror of Lake Natron in Tanzania, one of the harshest...

Casablanca Slaughterhouse Rises as Cool Art Space in Morocco

A disused government-owned slaughterhouse in Casablanca that ceased to operate in 2000 now hosts art exhibitions, music shows, film screenings and other cultural activities...

Glass Tube Home Wraps Around a Tree in Earthquake-Prone Kazakhstan

An emergent studio from Kazakhstan has designed a curious glass tube home that wraps around a large Fir tree in the tectonically active mountainous...

Tripoli’s Doshma Creative Hub Has a Recycled Shipping Container Core

So many countries in the Middle East and North Africa rely way too much on concrete for their building needs, but Libya Design bucks...

Old Bus Converts to Mediterranean Penthouse Suite on Wheels

A young Israeli man has renovated and transformed a disused public transport bus into a double story apartment that even boasts a penthouse guest...

Fashionable Foldylock Keeps Tel Aviv Bicycle Thieves at Bay

A group of friends from Tel Aviv got so tired of lugging enormous locks to foil would-be bicycle thieves that they got together to...

Walking Shelter Are Shoes You Could Live In

Can't find a couch to surf? Too broke for Air BNB? No need to cancel your travel plans, just lace up a pair of...

Damien Hirst’s Birth Sculptures Challenges Doha’s Sense of “Science”

It's something we can't avoid as human beings: we begin as naked embryos that go through stages of gestation. We emerge naked, until clothed....

A Grenade Garden Helps Palestinian Mother Move On

When Israeli soldiers killed her son Bassem in 2009, Sabiha Abu Rahman faced the impossible task of being alive without him. She has since turned...

Mishka Henner’s Feed Lot Photos Can Put You Off Meat

British photographer Mishka Henner has produced some disturbing aerial images of cattle feedlots in Texas, composed of hundreds of high-resolution satellite images stitched together...

Pedro Reyes’ Disarm Morphs Weapons Into A Mechanized Orchestra

Artist Pedro Reyes is waging a war on weapons, transforming guns into musical instruments and constructing a fully mechanized orchestra. In collaboration with Cocolab,...

Breathtaking New Museum on Warsaw Ghetto Site Commemorates Polish Jews

After more than a decade of planning, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews has finally risen where the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland...

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