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Syrian courtyard: Damascus, syria

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Project from ‪Brussels‬ based office: ‪NOTAN office ‬https://www.facebook.com/NTNoffice/ Completed in 2016 Location: ‪Beirut‬ More pictures here: http://www.notan-office.com/projects/le13eme/

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The Value of a war-scarred ruin in Beirut

“ A brutalist egg-shaped building in the center of Beirut is currently in ruins. Although campaigns are calling for its preservation, its future is still unclear.”

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Palestinian children look out from their family’s house, which witnesses said was badly damaged during the recent Israeli offensive, in the east of Gaza City on Aug. 28, 2014

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Modern Iraqi monuments.

From The Monument: Art, Vulgarity, and Responsibility in Iraq (1991) by Samir al-Khalil.

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Lina Bo Bardi’s  SESC vs. USJ Campus de L’Innovation et du Sport

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Modernism in Hamra (Beirut)

PDF: Hamra Modern: an exhibition by richard pelgrimhighlighting the quality andabundance of modernistarchitecture in hamra

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Sabbagh Centre by Alvar Aalto and Alfred Roth

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Reimagining a passageway in downtown Cairo

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project team: Adham Selim (architect/Egypt) Jakob Fenger (artist/Denmark) Omar Kassab (architectural trainee/Egypt)

Cairo Downtown Passages project aims to develop a pilot urban design and art project in the northern part of downtown Cairo, highlighting existing and emerging initiatives and activating underutilized public spaces. This passageway redevelopment project emerged from a design workshop held in April 2014, exploring art and design interventions in two passageways in Downtown Cairo, the Kodak and Phillips Passageways, organized collaboratively by CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research) with DEDI (the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute) and CKU (the Centre for Culture and Development in Copenhagen). This pilot project seeks to promote a more diverse, inclusive, and accessible public space in these downtown passages. While Cairo is awaiting the formal opening of the project on January 17th, architect Adham Selim (Egypt) and artist Jakob Fenger (Denmark) shared with us their joint proposal for Kodak Passage, originally developed during the Cairo Downtown Passages Workshop in April 2014. Kodak Passageway is a linear space flanked by a U-shape building that is mostly empty. Having an empty space in such prime location is rather unique and dangerous in the mean time. It offers an opportunity to re-program the space almost freely, yet there’s always a looming danger of chaotic appropriation and privatization by street vendors and small shop owner who would much like to expand their businesses at the expense of the diversity the public space can offer. The proposal thinks of space as a contract between a broad range of stakeholders that need to coexist, despite their contradictory interests, in order to keep the space vibrant and interesting. The proposal thrives to create a sustainable ecology of coexistence between conflicting interests in a big city such as Cairo.

يهدف مشروع تطويرممرات وسط البلد للوصول إلى تصميم وتنفيذ مشروع فني وعمرانى في الجزء الشمالى لوسط البلد، حيث ظهرت فى السنوات الأخيرة العديد من المبادرات الفنية والثقافية التى تساهم فى تعزيز إستخدام الفراغ العام وتحفيز الإحياء والتطوير العمرانى. وقد نشأت فكرة إعاد�� تصميم هذه الممرات من خلا�� ورشة عمل للتصميم الفنى والعمرانى أقيمت فى إبريل 2014 بالتعاون بين كل من مختبر عمران القاهرة للتصميم والدراسات (CLUSTER) والمعهد الدنماركي المصري للحوار(DEDI) والمركز الدنماركي للثقافة والتنمية (CKU) لتفعيل فراغات عامة أكثر أماناً وتنوعاً ورحابة . وقد تم التركيز فى المرحلة الأولى على ممري كوداك وفيليبس ليمثلا سوياً مشروعاً استرشادياً يمكن تعميمه فى المستقبل فى إطار رؤية أشمل لإحياء وتنمية منطقة وسط البلد. و بينما تنتظر القاهرة الافتتاح الرسمي للمشروع في 17 يناير الجاري , يشاركنا المعماري أدهم سليم (مصر) و الفنان ياكوب فينجر (الدنمارك) بنشر رؤيتهم التصميمية لممر كوداك , و التي تم انتاجها خلال ورشة العمل المنعقدة في أبريل 2014 . ممر كوداك هو فراغ مستطيل محاط بالمباني من ثلاث جهات و هو فارغ أغلب الوقت . توافر مثل هذا الفراغ في هذا الموقع المتميز في وسط المدينة يشكل فرصة نادرة و خطرة في ذات الوقت . فهو من ناحية يمكن أن يمثل فرصة مثالية لإعادة توظيف المكان بشكل حر , و من ناحية أخرى هو دائماً تحت رحمة التوسع العشوائي المصاحب لعمليات الاستحواز والخصخصة التي تحدث بشكل مستمر في وسط المدينة بواسطة صغار الباعة و أصحاب المتاجر الراغبين في توسيع أنشطتهم الاقتصادية على حساب التنوع الذي يوفره الفضاء العام . هذه الرؤية التصميمية المشتركة ترى الفضاء العام كـ”عقد” بين مجموعة متنوعة من الأطراف التي ينبغي لها أن تتعايش معاً , بالرغم من مصالحها المتناقضة , من أجل الحفاظ على المكان حيوياً و شيقاً في كافة الأوقات . يطمح هذا التصميم لإيجاد لغة للتعايش المستدام بين المصالح المتضاربة في مدينة كبيرة كالقاهرة .

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Beirut rebuilt its downtown after the civil war. Now it's got everything exept people.

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We have recently learned that the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been commissioned to develop a design for a projected development on a prime sea-front location in Beirut (Lebanon): the Dalieh of Raoucheh. Proposing a private development over such a prime social, national, archeological and geological landmark in Lebanon has generated an ongoing public outcry, in the form of protests, letters to officials,discussions, and media mobilization. We are writing today to alert you to the disturbing facts behind the project, and solicit your support in outlining an alternative vision for Beirut’s seafront. Here are the facts fuelling the dispute over the project:

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An idea project by Jan Ackenhausen, Frederic Karam and George Salameh

The Normandy landfill is Beirut’s new waterfront, an extension to the city’s territory, reclaimed from the sea and filled with the processed debris of Lebanon’s civil war. For Solidere, the private real estate...

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Gaza engineer develops new technology to replace cement

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Architecture de carte postale

http://archipostalecarte.blogspot.be/2014/11/la-modernite-sous-le-soleil.html?spref=fb

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Cappadocia, a region in central Turkey is one of the most exciting and impressive places in this country – and this is saying something because Turkey is huge and quite amazing. Cappadocia is especially famous for its natural formed rocks called fairy chimneys or tent rocks, which look exactly how their name would suggest. As the material of these chimneys is soft, people living in this area have been carving them to form houses they can live in. Some of them are used even to this time and the most notable ones are in Goreme village.

There’s another secret of Cappadocia, located in the valleys around Goreme. This area was the site of early Christian activity, where people came to flee Roman persecution. There’s still lots of old, forgotten churches and monasteries, with walls painted with Christian symbols and saints. The faces of some figures have been destroyed during the iconoclast period, which opposed showing people on religious paintings.

Some of the churches are even a thousand years old, now abandoned and used by locals as storerooms. They are literally everywhere in Goreme and you can easily find some to explore.

The most precious buildings are safe though and protected by the Goreme Open-Air Museum. It’s a vast monastic complex, with churches and monasteries built side by side – and all of them carved in rocks. The impressive frescoes and somewhat mysterious atmosphere of these churches is unmissable and must be on your list if you plan to visit Cappadocia.

Source: tailsofwonders.com