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Category Archives: UAE

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Gulf Pearls

Mobius Design Studio's 'Type Hybrid 1'

The shape of things to come? contemporary design culture in the UAE

The Al Otaiba mosque in the mid-1960s. Until it's demolition in the late 1970s, this mosque Abu Dhabi's principal place of prayer. Al Ittihad / The National

Abu Dhabi’s lost mosques

Jean Nouvel presents a scale prototype of the dome that will cast a 'Rain of Light' on the Louvre Abu Dhabi campus

The view from Saadiyat Island: Nouvel, Foster and Gehry outline their architectural visions

Marina Abramovic: the artist has arrived

The Dubai Veg Grower

Camile Zakaria, The Fortune Teller (2010). Christie's Images Ltd. 2012

Enjoy the (private) view

Carbon emissions per-capita in the Arab world (Carboun)

Changing social values, not technology, hold the key to the UAE’s eco-future

Zizyphus Spina Christi

Desert plants – a tonic for the nation?

Chandelier_Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque_Stephen Lock

Nasser Al Hajeb: an urban biography

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