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Editor- in-Chief Managing Director Communications Director Information Director Financial Director Contents Editor Editorial Support Web Graphics Editor Workshops Curator CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS

Soha AlSaleh Ruba AlSaleh Alia AlAzzeh Abdulaziz AlKandari Mohammed AlRoumi Shaikha AlSahli Rawan Kakish Samer Samhan Mai AlBusairi Weaam AlAbdullah

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Symbiosis Designs Amman, Kuwait

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Nadim Karam Beirut, Lebanon

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Dubai, UAE

AlBaker Architects Doha, Qatar

Cinici Architects Tosb, Turkey

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SPRING IN DESIGN

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As many of those involved in design are aware, we face many challenges on the road to establishing the industry as a serious contender. The most pivotal of these challenges lies in being able to persuade people that design is important not just aesthetically but also, strategically. There is an essential requirement today to properly define what design involves and then work on incorporating it into different aspects of our lives - including research, education, management, etc.

Taking the above into consideration, networking has become an integral solution.

Today, finding a platform whereby designers are able to fine-tune their skills and “sell” their output to potential clients, especially with the increasingly growing competition has become a major challenge. Also, there is a need for a way to connect designers with people who seek to incorporate design into their areas of work - universities being a good example.

With the above in mind, Pages was created with the objective of providing a much needed platform for designers, clients, and those interested in design to connect and share experiences and knowledge. Pages aims to become a «must read» for anyone looking to find best practices and standards within the design industry.

Through the various articles, designs, and works presented in Pages, we hope to showcase works by designers that fascinate and challenge readers as well as push the limits to what clients are looking for. Presenting new ideas and works from all over the region and in the future, globally, will give those involved in the industry a platform whereby they can define and create creatively.

Quoting Thomas Overthun the associate partner and design director at IDEO innovation is defined as : “Giving people something that they didn’t know they were looking for. There is the element of surprise when you are first confronted with something that is truly innovative – it will suddenly show you something that you didn’t realize you were missing.”

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On that final note, as editor-in-chief I welcome our readers to Pages and hope that within our pages you will find the truly innovative, challenging, and future of design and its constantly evolving trends

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Design Entrepreneurship Forum

AS DESIGNERS WE HAVE THE CREATIVE ABILITY TO INNOVATE AND DEVELOP DESIGN METHODOLOGIES; HOWEVER, WE LACK TALENT IN TURNING OUR DESIGNS AND TALENT INTO EFFECTIVE, SUSTAINABLE BUSINESSES. Benchmark - a Design Entrepreneurship Forum is the first of its kind in the Middle East & North Africa. Benchmark is dedicated to bridging the gap between designers and innovative business minds; where talented designers are provided the tools to form a sustainable livelyhood from their talent.

On January 18, 2014 yourAOK Creatives Network organised its’ first Benchmark Forum in the Middle East & North Africa; held under the ‘Profession’ Division of the company. Held in Kuwait, under the hashtag #yourbenchmark, the forum brought together the best business minds and designers of the region at CAP Warehouse to bridge the gap between design and business. With speakers ranging from Design Days Dubai Director Cyril Zammit to renowned Events Planner Bibi Hayat, Product Designer Khalid Shafar, as well as CEO of talabat.com Mohammed Jafar, and the star-studded list goes on, the forum proved a success. The entire experience at Benchmark from start to finish focused on young entrepreneurs and their capabilities; even the food at the forum was serviced by upand-coming restauranteurs with local concepts. Benchmark was a success with over 200 attendees during the full day event, with many requesting it to be an annual event.

Therefore, currently, yourAOK is in the process of planning Benchmark 2015. Stay upto date with the latest news & updates on the forum on www.blog.youraok.net

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FULL DAY GATHERING OF INNOVATIVE BUSINESS MINDS & CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS Presentations, discussions, and innovative designs discussed by visionaries during this forum.

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OSC; OUTDOOR SCULPTURES COMPETITION, COMMISSIONED BY THE AMIRI DIWAN OF KUWAIT. YOURAOK ORGANIZED AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION TO INVOLVE THE ART AND DESIGN COMMUNITY IN DESIGNING PUBLIC SCULPTURES FOR ALSHAHEED PARK.

Competitors: The competition was an international open call for artists and designers to submit their concept design.

Here are some statistics for the contestants

Located on the periphery of one of Kuwait’s oldest and most historical ring-roads, the First, lies Al Shaheed Garden (Part of Kuwait’s urban plan, the Green belt on the first ring road was built to create the transition between the old city of Kuwait and the new expansion).

With historical background that adds susbstantial value to it’s existence, a new project consisting of Landscaping and Architecture is currently being developed to host several amenities and outdoor facilities to serve the public.

Kuwait, France, Singapore, United States, Canada, Switzerland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Syria, Australia, Jordan, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates,

As part of the project being developed, the idea of introducing sculptures throughout, that vary in size and function was proposed. Sculptures are to be designed and introduced through a competition for selected international and local artists/sculpturists.

The competition scope is to add several types of sculptures throughout Al Shaheed Garden; some of which act like monuments, others interactive/ performative, and some that merge both concepts.

90+ Registered contestants 13+ Countries 30+ Selected Submissions 5 Selected Winners

Jury: There were two jury panels that helped in choosing the winning art sculptures of Al-Shaheed Park. The first jury consisted of official representatives from different governmental entities along with the Amiri Diwan. A gallery for the first jury took place on the 7th October 2013 at Al Seef palace. The first jury made their votes to select 20 art sculptures entries based on their concept and form.

Later, another jury consisting of representatives of the Amiri Diwan and AlShaheed design team reviewed the selection based on the form, concept, durability, cost and time needed to build and deliver each sculpture to the site. The jury made the decision to award five winners of the competition entries.

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Freedom

Designed by: Bader M. AlMansour Description: Forming the map of Kuwait using birds that can be visualised from the side view of the sculpture.

The flying birds represent the martyrs who sacrificed their souls for the freedom of Kuwait.

Raising Our Sails

Designed by: Muneera J. AlSabah Description: The concept of this sculpture is inspired by our grandfathers raising the sails of their dhows to charter into unknown territories for the prosperity and development of Kuwait. They left us with a legacy of faith, hard team work and dedication. We now must Raise Our Sails once again and charter into the journey of progress, development, and newfound prosperity for our beloved country. Using materials that symbolize the iconic Dhow and using modern lines and form for this sculpture, I have intended to blend, symbolically, the values and traditions inherited with the new wave of knowledge and modernity found in the young professionals of Kuwait. The sculpture represents hope, tradition, determination, power, and a bright future.

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Progression in Stages Designed By: Lamees & Liali Nijem Description: The sculpture represents the progression throughout the history of the State of Kuwait, its development and continuation. The solid curvature wrapping the sculpture reflects the malignity and darkness of the Iraqi invasion during the progression peak of Kuwait.

The Pearl

Designed By KISR; Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research Description: To utilise the environment by converting the solar energy into lighting grid flooring which reflects on the spherical mirror at night. During daytime the mirror will provide a clear reflection of the park surrounding.

Map Abstraction

Designed by: Ahmed M. AlObaid Description: Kuwait Map in an abstract form to be in segments which can be visible from a certain angle within the park.

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innovative firm all the way from Jordan Symbiosis Design / Amman, Jordan The architectural team adopts a very unique approach to projects unlike any other within the architecture/engineering industry. Projects are viewed as morphological living entities, which start from an entrepreneurial epiphany, and evolve to a business vision, tested against market demand and feasibility study.

Projects, either product or service, are then tested against physical environmental demands, evolve to brand and marketing definition, into operations including staffing, logistical mapping, procedures, etc. The list is extensive and expansive depending on the project typology. All layers are considered as “architecting”, hence the concept of “Total Architecture.”

The team’s primary expertise tackles design and engineering with focus on technical innovation and novel designs elevating the culture of architecture and urbanity. Extensive hands-on experience with many projects, ranging from constituting a vision as an answer to an opportunity to launching operations gives the team a serious advantage when a client requires true systematic and methodical empathy. Several success stories stand witness to the team’s name with projects handled from a spark of an idea to realization and operations.

Some are simple such as high-end exclusive residential building, to innovative cultural hospitality concepts, to alternative approach to high level education and to sizable health and recreational projects. The team has developed several businesses in their portfolio, which have emerged as successful brands. Such projects, from names to buildings and operations include the renowned Blue Fig Restaurants and Cafes, as well as Vy recreational club (now Fitness First), and The Village mixed-use project and Villa Heights residential project. No detail was left out of the total architectural process including far and peripheral tasks to traditional architecture such as recipes, operational software, financial setup, staffing, branding and marketing material, etc. With each project, whether invented in-house or not, the team aims to leave a legacy, reflective of total architecture, always in favor of its fortune and that of the client

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THE PRIMARY CONCEPT INVOLVES A DISMANTLEMENT OF THE STANDARD COLUMNS AND PILLARS AS VISUAL INTERRUPTIONS BELOW A DOUBLE CANTILEVERED CARVED STONE MONOLITHIC UPPER LEVEL IN FAVOR OF INTEGRATED OUTDOOR AND INDOOR EXPANSIVE SPACE. It was imperative to offer the ground floor as an extension of the garden concept and vice versa, the garden as a continuation of the indoor space. The result is an expansive and fluid living space that goes beyond architectural articulation on the main living ground floor.

The upper level is a heavy private stone mass that is routed, at one end, in the ground and wraps up and around in two gestures to express both a roof and a containment through a balanced simple architectural mass. All spaces and details are suspended between complex integration of natural material assemblies and a resolve to dissolve all details into minimal forms and integrated silent lines.

The Farouqi Residence, balances everyday comfort living with a sophistication fit for a worldly client/host

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A PLURI-DISCIPLINARY GROUP FOUNDED AND LED BY NADIM KARAM, ATELIER HAPSITUS IS A THINK-TANK FOCUSED ON THE CREATION OF AN ORIGINAL URBAN VOCABULARY.

‘Hapsitus’, meaning the unpredictable outcome of choreographed hap-penings and situ-ations, is usually the starting point of their projects, which reach maturity through ideas, research and debate. They use crossfertilization of disciplines to generate urban statements. Working from Beirut, they have created largescale art installation and architectural works for various cities worldwide.

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1. The Cloud, the Desert and the Arabian breeze At the forefront of the few cities today experiencing exponential growth, Dubai is the ultimate city of mutation. Within its constantly-changing scenery and infinite growth-scale, Dubai needs a dream expressing its current transient phase.

If cities can dream, does Dubai have a dream?

The Cloud of Dubai is one of a series of Gulf region projects created by Nadim Karam and Atelier Hapsitus. It is inspired by the nomads, whose lives were defined by the rigours of their relation to sun, water and sand, and whose travels followed the borderless movement of clouds. The Cloud is a trip, a playful adventure in the city. It is a horizontal presence on an elevated platform, an

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antithesis to the sum of skyscrapers spreading over the entire region. The Cloud is a dream, suspended between artificiality and reality.

An essentially sustainable project standing at a height of approximately 300 metres, the Cloud is a 20000m2 landscape inthe-sky comprising a lake, gardens, rotating bridges, spiraling walkways and terraces, an auditorium and sky-sports platform. The Cloud is approached on ground level from an esplanade with a pool reflecting a forest of inclined columns reaching up to the huge, translucent floating island. Access to the Cloud is gained through a few non-inclined tubular shafts, which double as structural support. In collaboration with ARUP AGU (Advanced Geometry Unit), significantly creative technological solutions are being developed for its realization.

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2. The Wheels of Chicago This project for the city of Chicago consists of seven revolving wheels inspired by the Ferris wheel and proposed for Olive Park and its vicinity. Five of them will be placed above the circular fountains, the circumference of each wheel mirroring that of its fountain. One wheel will be placed within Navy Pier’s Gateway Park and another one in Lake Michigan.

The wheel sizes vary between 20 and 35 meters in diameter. Each wheel has a concrete foundation. It consists of a steel structure, basically a vertical steel pole carrying a central hub and a round rim joined by cables. The wheels each have individual, intricate patterns of figures and shapes that represent the diversity of Chicago and its different geographic

zones. The wheels turn through an electromechanical system consisting of a motor within the hub. The movement, lighting and the sound generated by the wheels will create overlapping stories in continuous celebration of Chicago.

The experience of The Chicago Wheels is as engaging when at close-up as from a distance, where they become landmarks for Navy Pier, Olive Park and the shoreline promenade. From the air and the sea, the wheels will act as a cultural gate to Chicago, welcoming visitors.

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3. NAAS Springs The location for the project scheme spreads over a topographical edge of the site, which is at the highest point of the site, at the intersection between the flat area and the strong slope.

The architectural landscape is created in the spirit of water following down a sloped terrain.

The project is formed by a series of walls projecting into nature. They alternate between large living spaces with roofs for residences and uncovered elongated spaces for the passages, which form an extension of nature.

The ‘in-between ‘passages are the breathing spaces leading to nature, which could conceivably end with a sculpture or other feature, with the pine trees as a backdrop.

Both of the entrance facade and the nature façade of each residence are mainly transparent, creating from within the residence an inviting approach towards nature (almost 30~40% of the transparency of each residence).

The sides are stonewalls perforated with a sprinkling of small openings that will glow at night when the lights are on, giving a fairytale aspect to the residence cluster at night. Two major walls within each residence hold all the functions and provide major vertical surfaces which keep the space warm and allow possibilities for shelving, paintings and other features.

The shape of the undulating tiled roofs cape brings to mind the silhouette of a chain of mountains, and echoes the distant mountain vista.

Although the residences are independent and separate, the roofs cape provides an element of continuity

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TINKAH IS A MULTI DISCIPLINARY DESIGN FIRM THAT CREATES DISTINCTIVE CONCEPTS; AN ADAPTIVE FIRM THAT REPRESENTS UNIQUE EXPRESSION BY ARTISTS, DESIGNERS & THINKERS OF THE MIDDLE EAST REGION. Our multi - disciplinary firm consists of communication designers, industrial/ product designers, interaction designers, mechanical designers, electrical engineers, multimedia designers, fashion designers, creative directors, photographers, illustrators, artists, craftsmen and artisans. We believe collaboration between groups results in better products and experiences.

This adaptive approach yields an innovation - driven design team, with specialists to create focused, brand relevant concepts for our clients.

We help build consumer products, brands services and identities through strategic thinking & creative insight. Clients include Design Studios, In - House Creative Teams, Established brands and Start ups.

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THE FOUNDRY THE RESOURCE An interpretation unit for all TINKAH artists & designers to take thoughts and sketches to a materialized form; a space where handcrafting refines a design, developing processes for a fully crafted concept.

THE LAB A prefabrication unit where prototypes are prepared prior to handing them over to production houses. This Unit provides the basic tools of [wood, metal, material] for the visuals and the experiential units, experimenting with [ forms, textiles, materials & techniques ].

THE TALENT The Foundry will host workshops and collaborating artists/designers. The Foundry will also be a resource of premium level supplies used by artisans to create highly crafted results

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BY AGI ARCHITECTS MEANS THE COMPLETION OF THE PARISH CENTER - STARTED FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND ITS EMPOWERMENT AS FOCUS OF COMMUNITY ACTIVITY FOR A NEIGHBORHOOD. In this neighborhood, more than 2,500 apartments have been recently built to house around 7,000 people, therefore increasing the existing population to reach a figure close to 20,000 inhabitants. The new building has an area of approximately 1,000 sqm including the main worship spaces and auxiliary facilities, reaching a total area of 2,000 sqm.

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As per Pope Franciscus’ calls for the Catholic Church to focus on the least favored, the project aims at strengthening the Parish Center as a meeting and fraternization place, in order to develop spiritual and welfare tasks, enabling the participation of different role players in the neighborhood around a community regeneration objective. The project is also extremely sensitive to the current economic circumstances, so we have resorted to materials and construction techniques chosen by economical saving and sustainability premises.

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Based on these ideas, AGi architects outline a spatial scheme structured through three different qualifying voids: - A large central courtyard that belongs to the first phase of the Parish Center, already established as a meeting and community interaction place, intended now to become an urban oasis to attract the neighbors while articulating the relationships between worship spaces and the rest of facilities. Its plan surface is prolonged inwards as a stone carpet that is unfolded to enter the main space of the church and, bending towards the walls, creating a huge vessel that houses the congregation of believers, distributed around the presbytery, in an arrangement that favors the participation of all the LONG SECTIONS assembly in the liturgy.

Thus the binomial set by Holy and Social dimensions is strengthened to subtly help in weaving such an important parish feature as it is the fabric of emotional and social relationships, even cultural ones, which ultimately constitute the identity of the parish community and its significance in the neighborhood.

In addition, there are two other smaller scale courtyards, one of them linked to the area of the baptismal font, the other to the penitential chapel and sacristy, and they will be used to host different shelter activities (charity markets), entertainment actions (summer cinema), education (religious teaching) and spiritual rest.

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of shelter and interaction inherent to the project are only revealed to the outside in the main entrance that plays a relevant role as an open attraction space to welcome and invite users inside.

The shape of the roof, which unfolds freely to cover the assembly space by joining various inclined planes, allows the introduction of natural light inside, to achieve a clear qualification of the different areas needed to comply with liturgy requirements. Spatial richness is thus enhanced, and the users will enjoy different experiences, from joyful expansive brightness in the main nave of the church to the mystical contemplation in the Shrine chapel, as well as the meditation and meeting spaces in o 1 5 1o

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the penitential chapel. We, thus, obtain the necessary coherence in a built space where the Holy and the human scales must live.

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DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – THE THIRD EDITION OF DESIGN DAYS DUBAI, THE LEADING DESIGN FAIR FOR THE MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH ASIA, CLOSED FOR 2014 HAVING ATTRACTED 12,000 VISITORS OVER FIVE DAYS. The fair successfully delivered the very best in investment-quality, limited-edition design pieces from across the globe to Dubai, in addition to an enhanced and engaging public programme.

Fair organisers witnessed a 10% increase in visitor numbers and outstanding sales, complete with appearances from VIPs, including H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, H.E. Abdul Rahman Bin Mohammed Al Owais, Minister of Health, Board Chairman of Dubai Culture and Art Authority (Dubai Culture), H.H. Sheikha Latifa Bint Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Dubai Culture, as well as Mohamed Alabbar, the founding member and Chairman of Emaar. .

Under the Patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Design Days Dubai, pushed the boundaries of modern and contemporary design, cementing its position on the world stage as the most diverse design event. Located at ‘The Venue’ – a prestigious custom-built setting at the base of the Burj Khalifa, by fair sponsor, Emaar - the fair gave a global platform to an unprecedented number of galleries and design brands, and offered collectors a breadth of choice in pieces, styles, and materials – with items ranging in price from 1,000USD to over 2.5 million USD. Trevyn McGowan of Southern Guild (South Africa) commented, “Phenomenal edition this year. Almost everything sold as it is – or through commissions for special sizes. I think people value the narrative quality of our pieces, and the fact that the hand of the craftsman makes them unique as well as beautiful.”

François Leblanc, of Gallery S. Bensimon (France), commented, “People are very curious – not afraid to ask about the history and background of pieces – that’s very interesting for us; it’s the kind of reaction we like because our philosophy is that design should be accessible – not always expensive.”

Danielle Mallat, of Squad Design (Lebanon), said of Design Days Dubai 2014,”We are delighted with how the fair has gone – it has been a fantastic launching pad for Squad and I’m very happy for our designers that their work has been so successful. We have sold very well.”

Patrizia Tenti, of Erastudio ApartmentGallery (Italy), said, “The level of clients and galleries is very high. This is our second year and even in that short time we have seen a change – visitors are much more aware of design and their approach has become more intellectual. We have seen more architects and interior designers this year, as well as private collectors.”

The compelling line-up ranged from the well-established Carpenters Workshop Gallery (France, London), _Croft Gallery (Korea), and Victor Hunt (Belgium), to firsttime exhibitors such as Agence Algérienne pour le Rayonnement Culturel (Algeria), as well as and emerging galleries including Clear Edition & Gallery (Japan), and Naqsh Design House (Jordan), which underlined the position of Design Days Dubai as a global creative hub, as part of Art Week, Dubai’s wider umbrella arts initiative.

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Over 600 visitors attended the daily talks, workshops, and panels, which were produced in partnership with the fair’s strategic partner, Dubai Culture, and with the support of d3 Dubai Design District.

The popular sessions gave audiences insight and hands-on guidance from world-renowned designers, including India Mahdavi, Michelle Lamy, Giles Miller, and Andy Martin, among others.

Other highlights of the fair included the impressive collection of high jewelry from fair sponsor Van Cleef & Arpels, who also gave hands-on public workshops in the ‘Art of Mock-up Making’, by L’École Van Cleef & Arpels,as well as the newlyintroduced ‘Discover’ section, which this year showcased works from four French designers, through a partnership with Institut Français in the UAE. In addition, returning fair sponsor Audi showcased an example of the fusion between pioneering design and technological advancements, in their latest vehicle, the A8.

The installation and live performance aspect of Design Days Dubai blended organic and digital techniques, with works by designers Benjamin Muzzin, Giles Miller Studio, Michael Anastassiades, and Elaine NG Yanling, together with Chen Chen and Kai Williams, Guto Requena, and gt2p reflecting the dynamism of new artistic creations by well-established designers.

Creator of the PP Tree installation, Tom Price, said, “I’ve been struck by the genuine, open curiosity: people are very interested in the why, what and how about the work – and where it can be used. They make far fewer assumptions than people in Europe and North America. It’s very good for design – sparking the debate about what design can be, should be and shouldn’t be.”

“The calibre and diversity of the pieces brought by each gallery, coupled with the presence of such passionate and knowledgeable visitors and collectors from around the world, has contributed to the success of the 2014 edition of Design Days Dubai. The line-up of leading designers, gallery owners, and public programme speakers was world-class, and the fair itself gave an opportunity for cultural dialogue to emanate from Dubai – which has now truly confirmed its reputation as an international heart,” said Cyril Zammit, Fair Director, Design Days Dubai.

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telltale designs by designer Khalid Shafar TEXT & DIAGRAMS KHALID SHAFAR

BORN IN 1980 IN DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. AS A BUSINESS GRADUATE OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN DUBAI KHALID WORKED IN MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION FOR ALMOST SEVEN YEARS. In 2005 Khalid completed a degree in Fine Arts in Interior Design and by the end of 2009 had decided to leave marketing and follow his passion for design. Khalid has studied and specialized in Furniture & Objects design, first at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, UK, then at the Centre for Fine Woodworking in Nelson, New Zealand.

In 2011 Khalid opened his own studio in Dubai and in November 2012 Khalid inaugurated his first showcase space ‘KASA’.

Khalid’s approach to design encompasses his personal expression of form, movement, emotion, and in particular, ‘the tale’ of objects.

Among his notable international collaborations, Khalid collaborated with the Brazilian duo Campana Brothers on an installation for Abu Dhabi Art 2010. He recently collaborated with the historical French cabinetmaker Moissonnier and with the carpet industry leader Tai Ping on special limited edition releases.

Khalid’s work had been showcased at many exhibitions and galleries in many cities like Tokyo, Berlin, Paris, and Milan

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Object: Sofa/Daybed, 2012, prototype | Description: Ash wood, 100% cotton upholstery | Dimensions: 180 x 80 x 90cm

illusion arm

Object: Armchair, 2011 | Description: Stained ash wood, polyester rope | Dimensions: 80 x 85 x 85cm

the gemini

Object: chair/ table, 2010, prototype | Description: elm wood, possum fur upholstery, stainless steel hinges | Dimensions: chair: 40x42x88cm.

Table: 67x33.5x54cm

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Object: Lounge chair, 2012, prototype | Description: Ash wood, metal structure, 100% cotton upholstery | Dimensions: 86 x 60 x 90cm

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Albaker Architects is a Qatar based international practice founded in 2011 to provide a full range of design solutions ranging from masterplanning to architecture to interior design services. With a solid and unwavering vision to transform places into experiences and destinations, we are convinced that buildings have purposes larger than themselves.

albaker architects

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upcoming firm ALBAKER ARCHITECTS

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TEXT & DIAGRAMS ALBAKER ARCHITECTS Project: Marsa Alam Resort Main Building Location: Marsa Alam, Egypt Area : 22,000 sqm Status: Concept design

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SET AMONG SAND, SEA AND ROCKY TERRAIN, THE RESORT’S MAIN BUILDING ELIMINATES PHYSICAL AND VISUAL BARRIERS BY FORMING A RELATIONSHIP

with its surroundings and blurring the distinction between manipulated and actual topography; resulting in multiple trajectories of circulation paths across the building’s interior and exterior. The building accommodates the resort’s main food and beverage outlets, front and back-of-house areas, and public and leisure facilities. The organizational concept attempts to tackle the resort industry’s largest obstacle, «how can program adapt to seasonality?» The building’s unique temporal arrangement of program addresses this obstacle

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Hotel / retail / commercial / residential mixed-use building

Location: Doha, Qatar Area : 30,000 sqm Status: Pending planning approval

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THE NEW SLATA PROJECT SETS A NEW APPROACH FOR MIXED-USE BUILDINGS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. The project addresses how multiple uses come together to complement each other and programmatically relate to the neighborhood. The building hosts eight different programs including commercial and community programs. The spatial planning is a result of a series of on-going research and spatial design experiments through Islamic patterns.

The core interest was on experiments in program intersections and the opportunities they provide to formulate hybrid programs. This acts as micro urbanisms of intensified centers for cross collaboration.

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DESIGNED BY CINICI ARCHITECTS / CAN CINICI, WORKINN IS THE FIRST HIP HOTEL IN GEBZE, LOCATED WITHIN TAYSAD ORGANIZED INDUSTRIAL SITE (TOSB) AT THE OUTSKIRTS OF ISTANBUL IN A RECENTLY ESTABLISHED SUBURBAN CENTER ‘CAYIROVA’.

The 162 bed hotel utilizing 12,000 m2 closed area, resides nearby a busy traffic interchange connecting the campus with a transeuropean motorway. Being so close to roadways, thus creating the atmosphere of a stopover hotel, helps in keeping alive the memory of temporary accommodation.

The hotel is commissioned and managed by Uyar Group.Tectonically the building is divided into two main parts; ‘The base’- 2 storey high accommodating the lobby, bar, restaurant and meeting rooms, and the ‘white mass on top’ comprising three different types of rooms - standard rooms, executive rooms, studio flats. The distinguishing tectonic character of the L-shaped white mass in plan is its facade built out of giant prefabricated concrete panels where the windows are treated merely as intervals in between.

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The Building which is designed to be energy efficient has been rewarded with a LEED Gold certificate. Water efficiency, solid waste recycle, use of local materials is just a few of the areas that have been carefully evaluated within the design in order to produce an environmentally friendly building. Some main implementations are listed below: •In order to reduce heat in roofs and hard landscape, materials which have higher reflection rates are used. In order to increase green areas, car parking is planned in the basement, so that 20% of the land is used as green space.

•In order to save rain water and to feed underground water sources, the water collected on site is being used as landscape irrigation source.

• 90% of the construction waste produced is utilized.

• 15% of the materials which are used in construction is re-cycled.

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• Energy costs are reduced by 22% with the usage of energy efficient systems such as: natural lighting and natural cross ventilation, low-e glass use, solar water heating, use of highly efficient lighting fixtures, and use of 30% increased heat transmission coefficient for the walls etc.

No CFC based heating or cooling is used in order to prevent damage to Ozone layer. The interior design of the hotel is subtle and modern and held by DEER Architects in coordination with Cinici Architects. In its industrial landscape, surrounded by busy roads this white mass rising above green walls is not only very inspiring but also welcoming. Opened in August 2013, Workinn is an architectural artifact which is going to pioneer the nearby developments around both in terms of aesthetics and with its sensibility to environment.

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CINICI ARCHITECTS ‘Cinici Architects’ was established in 1963

by Altug & Behruz Cinici on the occasion of the execution of the Middle East Technical University Campus in Ankara. Since then numerous projects were carried out covering a wide range of subjects and scales, with educational buildings gaining primay importance.

In 1989 the firm’s general management was moved to Istanbul. Can Cinici who joined the office in 1992 concentrated mainly on competition and design work. The firm, who has had significant influence in the last 35 years on Turkish Republican Architecture, was acknowledged by various National and International Awards including the 1985 Simavi Foundation Award, 1986 Is Bank Award, 1994 National Architecture Award, 1995 Aga Khan Award for the building of the Mosque within the Grand National Assembly and Young Turkish Architects Prize of TEPE Center for Architectural Culture in 2000.

the consciousness of calligraphy workshop

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Open doors of exploration in the arts of Arabic calligraphy and using other traditional schools to bring in the tradition while pushing it into a contemporary art. Well known artist & architect Fareed Abdal has explored the variety of ways in which creativity takes over the mind and inspires others to find their own path to artistic bliss.

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ALHAMRIYA DISTRICT

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WEAAM ALABDULLAH

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THE COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA HAVE PUT TOGETHER AN INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM OF HIGHLY SELECTED STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN A COMPELLING URBAN DESIGN STUDIO / practicum in Oman in collaboration with the planning offices of the Mayor of the capital of Oman. The Head of Muscat Municipality, Sultan bin Hamdoon Al Harthi, has invited the studio to participate in revisioning a number of critical urban redevelopment issues as well as the urban revitalization of the AlHamriya District of Muscat.

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Although urban areas in Oman and the United States are vividly distinct across a range of criterion; both regions must contend with an array of critical environmental and social issues, i.e. uncontrolled growth, economic stagnation, transportation inefficiencies, a dearth of open space and recreational opportunities and environmental degradation. The focus of this studio experience was on perhaps the most important of these objectives: that of creating and revitalizing urban fabric envisioned and developed across a range of interrelated variables that are also their own measures of sustainability.

A truly sustainable urban environment must necessarily be defined across an array of dimensions: economic, cultural, environmental, functional, and aesthetic.

The group evaluates the relative merit of their ideas according to the following design and planning ordering systems.

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WEAAM ALABDULLAH Economy; is the design economically sustainable? Does it create jobs and income sources for the community?

Environment; is the design environmentally sensitive? Does it connect and enhance existing ecosystems? Does it reduce our carbon footprint?

Culture; does the design create opportunities for meaningful social exchange and learning?

Function; does the design circulate effectively? Is it safe? Is it easily maintained?

Aesthetic; has the design identified and created an aesthetic sensibility appropriate to the history and culture of

URBAN DESIGN the region and its vision of the future?

These systems are a form of checklist deeply embedded in the design processes, and an idea’s relevance and usefulness increases according to the number of different ordering systems that it engages. For instance, an idea that concerns itself with only aesthetic issues is not nearly as useful as an idea that fully engages not only spatial and image-related issues, but also explores economic, environmental and social issues as well. A park with flowers is fine, but a park with flowers that meanders its way through a community increasing land values, creating economic opportunities, mitigating erosion, promoting urban water harvesting and encouraging meaningful social interaction is a richer, more layered and therefore more relevant concept and

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eventual urban component. The group uses these invariably interconnected systems as a means of verifying the relevance of ideas. Solutions must be multi-layered and satisfy the complex range of design determinants present in all urban settings.

Primary strategies involved in the creation of a sustainable urban living prototype are: opportunities for local economic development, and the creation of open spaces and commercial venues attractive and useful for young Omani and ex-pat families. Subsequent phases of development divide the master plan into focus areas for further design development. This master-planning approach is based on a premise of light to moderate alteration of the existing urban fabric.

Landscape architectural design and planning strategies have the ability to encourage meaningful transformation in urban environments. These ordering systems have in turn, become the definition of sustainability, and the focal intention has always been to develop AlHamriya as “A Sustainable Urban Living Prototype for Low to Middle Income Communities in Muscat.�

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Susan Hefuna‘s artistic creation includes video work, an extensive series of drawings, multimedia installations, sculptures as well as digital photographs.

Even though these techniques and materials differ greatly, the artist uses them to create specific contexts. Thus, since the end of the 1980s, her body of work can be referenced by content regardless of the medium used. In this respect, it is apparent that everything is interrelated.

She tells us that the source for her artistic approach is life, in fact, her individual experiences. Those familiar with Susan Hefuna‘s schedule realize that she is a perpetual traveler. Working with an intense level of concentration under strict time restraints, she creates work at numerous locations around the world, such as London, New York, Cairo, Duesseldorf etc. If a word as a common denominator could be selected as a title for all her work, it would be “ANA”, the Egyptian word meaning “Myself”.

Her videos of the Nile Delta refer to her observations in the country around the delta. Composing from incidental scenes with uncontrolled dialogues, Susan Hefuna makes context, a structure that deals with its own past or more specifically a longing for a possible history. Her photographical works include her as an artist as well as the person acting in front of the camera. She as the artist with her bodily appearance and as director embody an I, a determined entity. Her sculptural works, especially those characterized by a dense structure display a basic working principle, her love for making concentrated work.

Susan Hefuna’s drawings executed in ink create her own personal world system.

In these works, structure is pronounced in a special way. Due to this rule, except for the two series in blue ink created in Istanbul, the artist works with two layers of paper. She reinvents her structural system for each drawing. Mostly these works remind us of traditional window structures from Egypt, the Mashrabiyas. Furthermore, they may be associated with other urban structures such as floorplans for buildings.

In addition, she also utilizes circular shapes, cone shapes, wing shapes, free formed shapes, that vaguely remind one of amimal skeletons.

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MOATH ALOFI ALMADINAH, SAUDI ARABIA Category: PHOTOGRAPHY Tags: PHOTOGRAPHY / INSTAGRAM

ABOUT Saudi-born Moath has adopted the task of documenting old buildings in Saudi Arabia for the purpose of convincing owners to restore and not demolish said buildings. Now a full time job, his passion has become his life’s purpose.

A photo essay spaces abandoned

EVERY ISSUE WE PUBLISH HAS A PHOTO JOURNEY PUBLISHED AS WELL, A STORY THAT PORTRAYS THE UNKNOWN PLACES & PEOPLE ALIKE. YOURAOK TALENT MOATH ALOFI TELLS THE STORY OF SPACES ABANDONED. Moath quit his full time job when he decided to document the many abandoned buildings left to nothingness in Saudi Arabia. His issue is becoming widespread in attempting to keep track of the names, dates, building purpose, and construction methods used in the variety of buildings he is coming across. In wanting to preserve historic buildings, Moath’s full time dedication ultimately involves the preservation and restoration of the buildings, instead of demolishing them and making way for new buildings.

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GOHAR DASHTI Tehran, Iran

Category: PHOTOGRAPHY Tags: REPRODUCTION

ABOUT Gohar has developed a practice concerning social issues with particular references to history and culture in modern society. She creates artwork using different media such as photography and video.

family albums ‘it is all about photography’ Family pictures in old albums are usually scripted with a small description of the photograph on the back of it.

In these photographs, the photographer isn’t seeking a thought or a special intrinsic event, but he/she has only focused on recording a specific moment.

However, recording and freezing a location and a time seem insufficient for the amateur photographer, and by writing on the back of the photos, he/ she tries to record the memories s/he seeks to authenticate.

This collection or in fact this reproduction is not a ‘Photography project’, but it is ‘About Photography’

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REEM YASSOUF

Damascus, Syria

Category: ART

Tags: PAINTINGS

ABOUT Reem Yassouf, Visual artist graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts Department of painting, University of Damascus in 2000. Her passion always drives her to experiment more and more. Reem spent many years enhancing her skills and she went to different countries.

Among all art fields, jewellery design will be one of her preferred fields. She seeks to deliver her messages through her art without any limitation or boundaries.

children can create their own world Reem describes her art by saying “My paintings show children between the sky and floor, send messages with the kites, between a bird and cat that represent a dream. This world is full of shadows, but the dark is covered with a transparent white. Darkness covers all, but it yields to the light. The faces of children playing have a stripe of dark next to white. Their sadness is inside, but the sky spills its light on them. Faces look up, bathed in a white hope of their imaginations and dreams that only children can create.�

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ONUR LAMBAS

Amman, Jordan

Category: PRODUCT DESIGN

Tags: PRODUCTS, REUSE ,UPCYCLE

ABOUT Hangit is a design project that explores and experiments with the shape of the wire hanger as a sole material. The result is a wide variety of decorative as well as functional objects, ranging from wall patterns and mirrors to larger furnishing pieces such as tables and shelving units.

hangit upcycled wire hangers

The wire hangers generated pattern.

Any pattern generated by the repitition of hangers around a center point can be used to create a fruit bowl, a wall decoration, bulletin board, mirror, or can be repeated along with other patterns to create a space divider or suspended ceiling.

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Some computer softwares were used to experiment with the shapes that can be generated 2-dimensionally by a wire hanger, as well as 3-dimensional softwares to try out certain designs before carrying them out. But working with hangers physically has always resulted and still is resulting with the better designs. After digitally producing a wide variety of patterns, new and different ones were still coming up when working hands-on. the collection of tables and book shelving and fruit bowls are all products of physical experiments. what is also interesting is that due to the flexible assembly method (wires), products can be retracted and folded while working on them, which sets of an array of ideas in my mind. ideas that are not clear, but still in the phase of condensation.

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ALA EBTEKAR

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Category: ART

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Ala Ebtekar’s paintings, drawings, and installations since the late 1990s have envisioned what the present could look like if it collided with history and mythology. Challenged by a desire to look towards the future and how to manifest this impulse into new work, he began researching the literary genre of science fiction, where depictions of space flight, new technologies, and time travel set the stage for narratives of realistic speculation about the future. Although the genre has important antecedents in the West — Johannes Kepler’s Somnium (1620), Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver›s Travels (1726), Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), and works by modern writers Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin, and William Gibson — Ebtekar had difficulty locating examples of this type of writing in Iran. One reason may be that the philosophy permeating much of Persian literature focuses on the now. In works by celebrated poets such as Rumi and Hafez, a recurring refrain to embrace the moment and to acknowledge that yesterday has transpired and tomorrow remains unknown is pervasive. But what about tomorrow?

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Posing these questions, Ebtekar presents two new bodies of work exploring concepts of alternate realities, space, and utopia against the backdrop of photographs of the famous Tomb of Hafez located in Shiraz, Iran and actual book pages from Hafez’s revered collection of works, the Divan-e-Hafez. In the Persian-speaking world, Hafez is regarded as an extraordinary poet whose verses are infused with mystical love and philosophical depth and also as a seer, a «tongue of the mysterious,» who was divinely inspired. For centuries many have consulted the words of Hafez for guidance on subjects such as travel, illness, or finances. Holding the Divan-e-Hafez, they close their eyes, make a wish, randomly turn to a page, open their eyes, and recite the poem, receiving an amalgamation of poetic rapture, existential guidance, and moral inspiration.

Serene pools and well-maintained flowerbeds and gardens surround the Tomb of Hafez, providing an optimal environment to pause, breathe, and pay homage to the beloved Persian poet. Ebtekar envisions how this moment of reflection could look, where in the momentary interlude from daily reality, a world fully imbued with physical properties of the cosmos and the potential inherent in a perspective expanded beyond this world is plausible. Similarly in the series of paintings on pages of the Divan-e-Hafez, Ebtekar visualizes the emotional and spiritual manifestation of reading Hafez, a time of suspended reality where poetic illumination is possible, imaginative variations on the present are infinite, and the portal to the cosmos is literally embedded within Hafez’s verses. Ebtekar not only conjures up representations of the transcendent ineffable, but also suggests a world where an expanded frame of reference can lay the foundation for realities alternative to what currently exists.

- Kevin B. Chen, December 2011

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