As part of an ongoing series, photographer Marc Goodwin visited the offices of a number of architecture studios. Unlike in other cities he has documented — among them Shanghai, London and Barcelona — he found an abundance of new office space for studios to choose from, but few historic buildings.
The studios he photographed are scattered across the city's design and business districts, from converted former warehouses in Al Quoz to core-and-shell fit-outs in the DIFC, D3 and The Greens. Among them are SVEN Architecture & Design, Cultural Engineering, Dabbagh Architects, Gensler, RMJM, Ibda and Dewan Architects & Engineers, ranging from intimate practices of a handful of people to larger firms.
The resulting images capture not only the architecture of the spaces themselves but the working atmosphere of each — the quality that gives Goodwin's Archmospheres project its name. Together they form a portrait of how Dubai's design community has made itself at home in a city still writing its own architectural history.
