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Don’t let those modish swing chairs fool you: Lebanese designer Nayef Francis’ contemporary products are in fact an ingenious window to the past. There’s a touch of nostalgia in all of Nayef Francis’ work. The Lebanese designer credits a childhood spent among Jdeideh’s lush orange groves, building tree houses and…
She’s the first woman ever to have been appointed Dean of the Columbia School of Architecture, but Amale Andraos has even more up her sleeve. The New York City-based architect is about to make a historical contribution to the region’s cultural scene. It seems Amale Andraos has never met a…
Fusing age-old floor tile making techniques with piping hot design, Blatt Chaya’s Designer Edition will make you fall in love with cement all over again. You might think there’d be little room for traditional cement tiles in a contemporary interior, but Blatt Chaya’s latest project will make you think again.…
When the CEO and owner of Aman Resorts, the OKO Group and Capital Group, Vladislav Doronin, decided to build his dream home back in 2006, he tapped the late Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid for the project and gave her one specific request: “I want to wake up in the morning…
The Lebanese architect Elias Soueidi has won the third annual Audi Innovation Award. Soueidi’s project was selected from over 450 registrations to apply for this year’s competition. His idea, ‘Ruin to Reality’, is an application intended to allow access to virtual 3D models of ruined historical buildings and landmarks. “The…
Gregory Gatserelia’s interiors are hard to pin down. Each of his projects differs wildly from the last in terms of palette, material, form and style but they are all united by an element of drama, a striking centrepiece or bold fixture on which the rest of the surroundings hinge. Given…
My interview with Blankpage gets off to an unsettling start. Sat in their black-walled meeting room, sparsely furnished with Barcelona chairs and large, aesthetic lumps of wood and stone that function as sculpture and furniture, I find myself ranged against the practice’s four principal members at the same time. Facing…
Photographer Marc Goodwin goes behind the scenes at the city's best architecture firms.…
Best of all, there’s not a single clichéd Arabesque motif in sight.…
Unpredictable, whimsical and captivating – Bernard Khoury distorts conventional architecture with his evocative buildings. Meet the architect who’s rewriting all the rules of urban living.…
