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RIBAJ Gulf Issue

Welcome to the first special issue of RIBAJ on the Gulf, covering outstanding new buildings, important voices and emerging ideas from across the region

Find out more about RIBA Gulf

Read more about RIBA Gulf and work across seven Gulf countries, including the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the Sultanate of Oman and Jordan or hear more about RIBA's activity whilst at Cityscape Global 2024. 

 

Architecture in the Gulf

The challenge Ed Reeve faced capturing Snøhetta’s Ithra, with its facade of fine stainless steel tubes, foreshadowed the photographer's efforts to document his late father's identity

The challenge Ed Reeve faced capturing Snøhetta’s Ithra foreshadowed his efforts to document his late father's identity

Exploitation of this traditional and plentiful material is opening opportunities in the region, ticking all the environmental and heritage boxes while scoring highly on aesthetics too

Traditional material scores highly on heritage and aesthetics too

As Abu Dhabi’s new desert city reaches maturity, its commitment to net-zero makes it both a test-bed for the world’s carbon ambitions

The city is both test-bed and exemplar for net-zero carbon ambitions

Zaha Hadid Architects’ King Abdullah Financial District station, one of the icons of Riyadh’s transformative metro project, has the dramatic flourishes to lift the whole city

King Abdullah Financial District station has the dramatic flourishes to lift the whole city

Buildings interspersed with gardens gave the city’s 1970s Sport and Recreation Centre room to move and grow

Gardens and arcades supplied future flexibility

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20 May 2025 from 9am to 11.30am

RIBAJ Spec: Architecture for Housing and Residential Development Webinar

What are the patterns we are looking for in our building designs? And can babies help us discover them? Eleanor Young investigates

What are the patterns we are looking for in our building designs?

What’s the future for ceramics? A buzzing RIBAJ event hosted at Iris Ceramica Group’s London ICG Gallery contextualised it between fascinating talks on Italy’s Futurist past and a radical rethinking of a 16th-century Rome palazzo

A buzzing RIBAJ event hosted at Iris Ceramica Group’s London ICG Gallery explored the future for ceramics

Bid for a place on a port and harbour agreement, design the wind turbines of tomorrow, propose an installation for a public square in the Barbados capital - some of the latest architecture contracts and competitions from across the industry

Latest: Port design framework

After many years of driving along the A40 Westway to get to jobs, photographer Andrew Meredith began exploring the troubled history of a road that divides west London in two

Photographer Andrew Meredith captures the essence of a road that divides west London in two