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Leading international design studio Urban Art Projects (UAP) in collaboration with Fairweather Proberts Architects have completed the 60m high ‘Breakwater Beacon’. The work is the centre piece of the new King Abdullah University of…
Accra, 02:00 hours. We walk through the bare corridors of Kotoka Airport. People are sleeping on mats or pieces of cardboard here and there. It’s difficult to tell whether they’re homeless or just airport staff resting before the n…

Put simply, some critics propagate a preference for modern-looking mosques without embellishments; cupolas and minarets are deemed superfluous because they are out of sync with the climate or technology of their new surrounding…

As a former occupant of an Amsterdam houseboat, I was wondering if all that much has changed in the big city since I sold my arc four years ago. Is the ground lease still the subject of discussion? Is there a lot of fuss anywhere abou…

Restoration and justice
FAST opposes these plans. The conference in the Balie could signal the start of the creation of an alternative plan. The houses in Lifta should be protected by UNESCO as monuments of the ordinar…

How can you be engaged in a polemic about something that doesn’t even exist? That depressing thought hit me during the ‘Projective Landscape’ debate staged by Stylos. The aim was to pinpoint the latest developments in architecture c…