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24-12-2021

Dabbagh Architects designs a mosque in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dabbagh Architects, the studio led by principal architect and founder Sumaya Dabbagh, built a mosque dedicated to Mohamed Abdulkhaliq Gargash in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. The place of worship, convincing in form, material qualities and use of daylight, is one of the first mosques designed by a female architect in the United Arab Emirates.

26-11-2021

Expo Dubai 2020, Luxembourg Pavilion designed by Metaform Architects

Metaform Architects, the Luxembourg-based multidisciplinary studio has designed the Pavilion representing Luxembourg at Expo Dubai 2020. A great deal of attention was paid to the visitors' experience, from the waiting line at the entrance, to the route inside the structure. What's more, thanks to the materials used, the project is 70% recyclable.

01-11-2021

The "lumière" of the French Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020

The French Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020 has already welcomed over 140,000 visitors. France’s main architectural theme – that of "lumière" or light – takes on different forms to welcome visitors and guide them through the pavilion in an experience of discovery and knowledge of the country, its innovations, its talents and its resources.

25-10-2021

Three design exhibitions, between attention to environmental issues and resilience

Three different design exhibitions to raise awareness of environmental issues and resilience, through different languages. We start from the small scale of the objects designed by Roberto Marcatti to contain water, making our way to Luca Gnizio’s proposals, who transforms industrial production waste into a resource, to finish off with the large-scale sculptures by Leiko Ikemura, which intimately dialogue with the architecture of the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia, designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela.

19-10-2021

EXPO Dubai 2020, itinerary and exhibition spaces of the Spanish Pavilion

The itinerary and the exhibition spaces entitled “Intelligence for Life” of the Spanish Pavilion at EXPO Dubai 2020 are curated by Italian architect Carmelo Zappulla, founder and director of the External Reference firm, together with the Onionlab multidisciplinary studio. An artificial forest that produces oxygen and an immersive reality that allows us to understand our environmental impact.

13-10-2021

Moving Architecture – the Italian Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020

Expo Dubai 2020 has officially opened its doors. Our journey through the pavilions of the first Universal Exposition organised in the Arab world, could only start from the Italian Pavilion: designed by the CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota Building Office, with Matteo Gatto and F&M Ingegneria, the project presents itself as an experiment into reconfigurable architecture and circularity.

08-10-2021

TRACES exhibition designed by KANVA studio in the Canadian Pavilion at World Expo 2020 Dubai

A poetic vision of an uncertain future and a stimulating reflection on our present: the TRACES art installation, designed by the Montreal-based KANVA firm inside the Canadian pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, challenges visitors and raises awareness of the growing threat to ecosystems caused by climate change.

05-10-2021

WOHA designs a truly green pavilion for Expo Dubai 2020

Singapore-based architecture firm WOHA, known for its green architecture many years before forests on towers became fashionable, has designed Singapore's pavilion for the World Expo 2020 in Dubai. The pavilion is a prototype that demonstrates how the built environment can coexist with nature.