Love on a Drawing: What We Saw When Arab Drama Entered the Architecture Office
An architectural reading of Hob A Waraq, from the polished design office to drawing responsibility, building collapse, and the image of the profession in popular culture.
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What Abd al-Wahhab Knew at Twenty-Five That Abd al-Ghafour Had Forgotten at Sixty
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUpIn 1995, a television drama called Lan Aish fi Jilbab Abi moved through Arab households with the…
When the Smart Building Becomes Dumber Than Old Brick
The building performed with quiet efficiency: elevators anticipated your destination before you pressed a button, ventilation systems recalibrated themselves according…
A Form That Changes with the Viewing Angle: Reading Kingdee Tower Between Two Office Wings
A Five-Sided Imprint Slipping Between Two BuildingsThis 211-meter-tall tower stands at the edge of a green belt in Nanshan District,…
Central Courtyard Replaces Living Room in Saekdong House Amid Urban Enclosure
Threshold of Passage: From the Narrow Alley to the Street FrontageSaekdong House does not reveal itself all at once; instead,…
Skovsporet Brings Robotic Printing into Everyday Housing
Spatial Scenography and Everyday PassageTechnology in this project transcends the boundaries of demonstrating construction capabilities to become an integral part…
The Building’s Other Footprint
Buildings possess both a physical ground footprint and a dynamic annual shadow footprint created as the sun moves throughout the…
Before You Draw the House, Study the Pack
Residential architects must understand a family’s social structure to design effective homes. Drawing from behavioral ecology, household dynamics often reflect…
New Canadian Port of Entry Organizes International Transit Campus
A new border crossing facility in Windsor, Ontario, now manages the flow of vehicles between Canada and the United States….
The Sequence and the Eight
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUpThree weeks ago, in the office building where I work, the marble floors were polished. The team…
Addicted, and My Audience Is Half a Million Robots
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUpI have been asking myself a question recently that has no comfortable answer.Do I love architecture, or…
BIG’s Dymak Headquarters Integrates Environmental Performance
Spatial Dynamism and the Flow of Human ExperienceDesigned by BIG, Dymak’s new headquarters transcends the conventional office building by adopting…
The Mona Lisa: From a House in Florence to a Room in Paris
The Mona Lisa represents a series of displacements, moving from its origins as a portrait of Lisa Gherardini in Florence…
Wildcoast Balances Climatic Adaptation and the Spatial Experience
Adapting to the Coastal Environment and Shaping the Spatial ExperienceThe architectural concept is founded on adapting to the coastal environment…
The Trial of AI: Who Pays for the Hallucination?
Artificial intelligence is fundamentally altering professional communication and knowledge production. Large language models frequently produce hallucinations, which are confident but…
Josette Vinsensini School: Urban Memory and Spatial Experience
The Topographical and Mass Dialectic: Simulating the Historic WallThe project emerges as an architectural approach that draws inspiration from the…
Earth-Integrated Museum Design
Mass Recession and Integration into the GroundThe museum’s architectural design moves beyond the conventional concept of an above-ground building defined…
Mass and Climate Control in the 2226 Passive System
Dynamic Massing and Climate ManagementEnvironmental efficiency in this architectural proposal is achieved through complete reliance on the building mass as…
Titlis Mountain Station: Alpine Infrastructure Redesign
Topographical Expansion and Mountain InfrastructureAt an altitude exceeding 3,000 meters above sea level, Mount Titlis asserts an exceptional geographical presence…
The Real Opium: Ibrahim Fawakherji on Why Writing Was Always the Other Practice
ArchUp — Ibrahim fawakherjiThere is a particular kind of regret that has nothing to do with failure.It is the regret…
The Last Drawing: Why Architectural Photography Matters More Than Most Architects Think
A building’s public life begins not at completion but through its photograph. Most people will never experience a project in person, making architectural photography a final act of authorship rather than passive documentation. From the narrow windows of golden-hour light to post-production refinement, the image ultimately determines how a building is understood, remembered, and judged by the discipline for generations.
