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The 2026 World Cup triggered global social jet lag, disrupting the biological rhythms of fans and cities in distant time zones. By prioritizing North American broadcast schedules, the tournament forced populations to override daily routines, impacting energy and infrastructure. This highlights the need for temporal urbanism, accounting for how global events manipulate a city’s collective clock.
Redefining the Therapeutic Space: From the Traditional Institution to the Open Campus The design proposal for the Hospital of the…
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUp Client Naturel: Why Owning the Land Does Not Mean Owning the Judgment This title deliberately subverts…
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUp After the response to the Cat’s Eyes piece, a question arrived that I had not seriously…
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUp Every summer the same scene repeats itself. Architecture students, engineering students, interior design students, begin sending…
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUp A few days ago I was watching one of the Arab economic channels. An analyst was…
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUp In the early 1990s I watched a film that stayed with me for reasons I could…
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUp How America Redesigned the World Cup Experience About eleven months ago, I wrote in ArchUp about…
Deconstructing Massing and Its Relationship to Spatial Structure The architectural composition of the Anjung project emerges through an experimental approach…
Architectural history is shaped by the gap between the physical experience of buildings and the linguistic tools used to describe…
A question posed by an architecture student — whether to build a place of worship, a school, or a hospital…
Human Experience and Spatial Transition The library asserts its visual presence through a sharp contrast between two functional and kinetic…
Sculptural Expressionism and Mass Kinetics The tower transcends its role as a mere physical shell for a scientific instrument, becoming…
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUp I read a piece of news recently that stayed with me longer than I expected. European…
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUp There is a stage in every project that most people mistake for an ending. The design…
Integration with Topography and Spatial Continuity The design transcends the conventional concept of luxury hospitality resorts by adopting a decentralized…
Mass Formation and Spatial Dynamics The artistic composition functions as a tool for redefining public space at the starting point…
Spatial Experience and the Dynamics of Passage The compact urban rest space is transformed into an applied study in the…
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUp A few days ago I opened my personal Gmail account after the message everyone dreads appeared…
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUp There is a room that appears in almost every Gulf villa built in the last four…
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUp A few months ago, ArchUp published an imagined conversation with an AI model about the future…
