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Q-DAR development | architecture | research Q-DAR is a cross disciplinary consultancy involved in the creation and implementation of diverse projects ranging from small scale architecture to large scale urban design and planning. Q-DAR was set up by Ayssar Arida in London in 2002 and has since consulted on projects in England, France, Spain, Lebanon, Qatar, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Algeria, Oman, Sierra Leone, Norway, USA, Germany and Belgium. Q-DAR has a highly pragmatic relationship to design balanced by a solid theoretical backbone. Our production is unique in its attention to detail and conceptual integrity across the whole design spectrum of any project. Q-DAR's work has won several competitions and received some of the industry's most prestigious awards, including Best Residential Future Project Award at Cityscape Dubai 2005, Best Masterplanned Community Project and Overall Winner at the Cannes MIPIMArchitectural Review Future Project Awards 2006. Q-DAR projects have been extensively published internationally, as have Arida’s own research and articles.
Ayssar Arida Ayssar Arida is an urban designer (MA with Distinction, Oxford Brookes University, 1998), architect (BArch, American University of Beirut, 1994), writer and entrepreneur. He is currently the director of Q-DAR development | architecture | research in London.
QDAR Ltd UK: The Banking Hall 26 Maida Vale London W91RS T +44 20 72664000 F +44 870 9138365 Lebanon: Military Hospital St - Badaro Kalot Bldg Beirut 2068 5213 T +961 1 380650 F +961 1 381363 info@q-dar.com registered in England & Wales 4604751
His first book, Quantum City (Architectural Press, 2002) is a seminal work on urbanity now influencing urban design education and practice worldwide. Its follow-up, Quantum Environments: Architecture in the New Paradigm, is in the works, while two co-authored books, New Urbanism and Beyond (Rizzoli, 2008) and The Design Dictionary (Birkhauser, 2007), are forthcoming. Arida's research focuses on developing relational languages to analyze and design the urban realm. These frameworks are informed by the “new sciences” namely quantum theory, emergence and self-regulation, complexity and fuzzy logic. He has taught at the American University of Beirut, and lectured and published widely on urbanism, and the relationship between science and the city. He is the co-founder of the Centre for the Spatial Realm, aiming to raise public awareness of urban space through science and art. In addition to his formal training, Arida has been extensively involved in various projects and productions, from public relations campaigns, corporate identity and environment branding, to application development, multimedia and film.
01_pf_arch_cma cgm
02_pf_arch_clemenceau
03_pf_arch_doha towers
04_pf_arch_grand egypt museum
05_pf_arch_platinum
06_pf_arch_kuwait
07_pf_urban_doha gardens
08_pf_urban_hazmieh
09_pf_urban_musqat
10_pf_urban_mape
11_pf_urban_doha ellipse
12_pf_urban_martyrs square
13_pf_urban_beirut souks
14_pf_urban_sarajevo
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