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IIt’s 8am in the Windy City and the eminent architect Gordon Gill is seated at his desk speaking to us before his Chicago office springs to life. His firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG), as the name reflects, resulted of a convergence of two great minds. In the…
Yasmine Sfar and Mehdi Kebaier are the creative duo behind Altin Studio. They aptly named their brand after the Arabic word ‘Al-Tin’ meaning earth (or clay) as a means to reflect their philosophy of returning to the soil and to the traditional crafts of their native country. Their debut collection…
Beirut-based interior architect Roland Helou, 37, spent his formative years between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, where his father was employed at the construction company Saudi Oger. “It was Dad’s employment that piqued an early interest in design. I remember as a young kid in Riyadh, I used to build Lego…
It was over twenty-five years ago that Hamad Sultan (above) and Achille Rossini first met as students at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design). Then, after they both graduated in 2000, they ended up getting recruited by the same architecture firm in Boston – NADAAA (formerly Office dA). And today,…
The town of Bressanone in South Tyrol, where Sandy Attia lives and works, has a unique topography which makes for a very particular working environment, thanks to the dramatic and spectacular Dolomites Mountain range. “Here the mountains are very present, and the landscape is vertical so you’re always looking out…
Let’s not beat around the bush here: Amale Andraos is a pioneer, a legend of the architecture world, a role model to Arab creatives and a hero to women. Born in Beirut in 1973, she was raised in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, where her father, an architect himself, had established…
Dubai-based architect Wael Al Awar is not a big fan of 20th century modern architecture. Rather, he subscribes to a new school of expression that eschews ornamentation and focusses on projects that revive cultural identity and craft as well as encourage public engagements and sustainability. “I don’t think of architecture…
The now 40-year-old Egyptian-born architect Tarek Shamma launched his career at London’s Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), graduating with honours in 2009. During the prestigious course, he hit the ground running for Zaha Hadid working on key competitions in Algiers and Seville. “It was baptism by fire, an incredible…
Spread across ten beautifully curated rooms, the biggest challenge for Karim Abdul Muttalib and Ann Abukhalil, the two founders of K.A. Interiors, was to make sure the entire villa reflected a unified theme while still giving each room its unique character and identity. To fulfil their task, a maximalist design…
A pioneer of the international design scene, Vincenzo De Cotiis is passionate about all artistic forms. “I make no distinction and I believe that the three areas – architecture, interior design and art – are animated by the same energies,” he explains. Whatever De Cotiis works on, from designing residential…
