KOC Old Display Center. kw
Manarat Al Khafji is a civic cultural center located in Al Khafji, Saudi Arabia. Conceived as a contemporary landmark along the Arabian Gulf, the project integrates architecture, landscape, and public space into a unified urban destination. The design extends the coastal edge into an activated civic promenade, creating a layered environment that connects retail, culture, […]
Manarat AlKhafji. sa
Manarat Al Khafji is a civic cultural center located in Al Khafji, Saudi Arabia. Conceived as a contemporary landmark along the Arabian Gulf, the project integrates architecture, landscape, and public space into a unified urban destination. The design extends the coastal edge into an activated civic promenade, creating a layered environment that connects retail, […]
NBK Museum. kw
Previous slide Next slide NBK Museum The NBK museum, a 20m high ceiling ground floor pavilion, pivots a long subterranean 45m deep space. A curvaceous spiraling stair hinges the long and the tall spaces of the museum in one seamless experience, starting from the oculus atop. The entry “sun-dial” hall is shaped by the sun […]
Tumo Urban Canopy. am
Previous slide Next slide Gyumri Urban Canopy, Armenia The Tumo Urban Canopy design draws from Gyumri’s architectural heritage, the Pamphak mountain range, and the ruins of old market arches. It blends traditional Armenian and Soviet architectural elements, featuring cantilevered structures, sloping roofs, and arches inspired by restored adjacent architectural ruins. The design integrates historical and […]
Museum in the Park. fi
Previous slide Next slide Museum in the Park, Finland Seamlessly integrating with Linnanpuisto Castle Park, the museum extends the park towards the waterfront, elevating into a cascaded open theater with the castle as a backdrop. Rather than merely occupying the site, the building canopies over it, transforming the waterfront walkway into an extended parkway. Engaging […]
AlUla House. sa
Previous slide Next slide Al Ula House, KSA A primordial interpretation of the landscape, flipped upside-down, wraps around the program with gradualness; from “closed” to “open” and from “private” to “public”. The interplay between architecture and nature, from the mythically internalized to the majestically sublime, reveals an eloquence of symbiotic coexistence with the landscape. Reinterpreting, […]
KFAS HQ & CC. kw
Previous slide Next slide KFAS HQ & Convention Center PAD10 Architects’ finalist entry interlaces the two new buildings of Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), its new headquarters (HQ) and Convention Center (CC) along Kuwait’s most prominent coastal stretch. With KFAS’s already existing Scientific Center, its promenade, and a newly proposed elevated pedestrian […]
NDU HQ. cn
Previous slide Next slide NDU HQ NDU is mixed used development situated in Hexi District, also known as the “City reception Room” of Tianjin, China. The building sets itself as an urban catalyst, an in-between mediator between architecture and landscape, indoor and outdoor, residential neighborhood and cultural emerging hub; the project explores the in-betweenness / […]
Art Collector House. kw
Previous slide Next slide Art Collector Residence The residence is a series of indoor and outdoor spaces that are staggered planometrically and sectionally. Mutually scaled, the intimate courtyards reciprocate the reading of the prescribed plan to become at times outdoor enclaves of extended or external improvisations. All-through cutout shafts provide lights to the basement store, […]
PASS. kw
Previous slide Next slide Post-Arab Spring Square An urban action calls to connect the city to its sea and the institutions to the people. We call for submerging the Arabian Gulf Road below ground level and erasing the urban infrastructures all around, except for the civic and governmental institutions. A public park with lush landscape […]
Museum of Civilizations. kw
Previous slide Next slide Otherness, Venice Biennale ’16 Between North and South, Otherness Temporal Statelessness The Project, shared between two islands, spans the extremities of the Gulf. Imprinted planometrically in the grounds of Failaka, akin to its archeological ruins, and carved sectionally from the fjords around Maqlab, the Project suspends its program from site specificity […]
J Cultural Center. ae
Previous slide Next slide Jumeirah Cultural Center, Dubai Water is the material of the new Jumeirah Cultural Center. It gives it form, but is also formed by it. Following the tradition of the desert nomad, the Center is an oasis for the modern nomadic jet-setter of the 21st Century. Conceived as a crescent overlap of […]
Czech Natl Library. cz
Previous slide Next slide Czech National Library, Prague The design for the New National Library is conceived as the intersection of sectional relationships that are formed between different internal programmatic, topological and spatial components. It is also the outcome of external site conditions – from the adjacent park of the Letenska Plain, the view of […]
Offshore Urbanism. lb
Previous slide Next slide Offshore Urbanism Reclaiming the past of Phoenician traders and the present foreigners’ evacuations, we propose a temporary mass exodus of the Lebanese population on prototype barges docked all along the Lebanese coast. These barges once undocked and parked in international waters, not only provide a shelter from aggressions of outside forces, […]