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If ever it is completed, Abu Dhabi’s Mastaba Project would be the world’s largest public sculpture. First developed by the celebrated art duo Christo & Jeanne-Claude back in 1977, a new book by Taschen documents the process of the monument’s construction. The craft of the builder wa…
Architect Raafat Majzoub relishes asking new clients how they like to shower, provoking everything from awkward excuse-mes to terrified expressions. The reaction, he argues, reveals just how much intimacy we have lost from bathing.
Bernard Khoury may hold a bleak view of our region, but he has not given up on this part of the world. Instead he fights on against the corporate machine he blames for our architectural inadequacies.
Currently chairing the jury responsible for selecting, each year, one of the most prestigious recognitions of architectural mastery, the Pritzker Prize, Lord Peter Palumbo spends much of his life travelling the world, visiting the great works created by today’s shapers of space. For dec…
Dutch maestro Marcel Wanders is a brilliant designer but a chance meeting with him reveals that, despite his humility, it’s his unique outlook that has helped him become one of the most prolific product and interior design studios in the world today. When I meet Marcel Wanders on …
When is an architect not an architect? It is a question put to Joe Serrins, a Manhattan architect whose compact practice off the High Line has worked largely on modifying the city's existing buildings rather than new ones.
When Sandra Ghattas decided to tap into what she calls the Lebanese designers' boom, she never expected that within a month Beirut Designers' Week, the country's first such event, would sell out entirely.
Elegance, timelessness and artisanal excellence, made exclusively in Italy: these tenets shape every piece of Fendi furniture, from a poolside lounger at the Grand Palais to a divan for a pampered pooch, for twenty-four years.
When Nayef Francis mentions a twenty-year passion for design, our writer is taken aback, for the man hardly seems out of his twenties. He proves, in fact, to be an exceedingly well-preserved thirty-seven. Hardly ancient.
The young team of DGT is pushing architectural boundaries between theory and practice with their projects. From their award-winning proposal for the Estonian National Museum, they have moved on to design cultural and commercial spaces in Denmark, Poland, Japan and Lebanon. Contemporary …
The dream kitchen too often collapses into noble disarray, beauty sacrificed to efficiency. Austrian designer Martin Steininger eschews wood and melamine entirely, crafting striking, sculptural kitchens that finally reconcile character, organisation and lasting practicality.
When interior designer Alberto Pinto passed away this November, he left behind a legacy of opulent homes, amongst them a magnificent villa in Kuwait completed in the final year of his accomplished forty-year career.