As Dubai and Riyadh attract global headquarters and multinational companies, the office is being redesigned around collaboration, identity and wellbeing. PAGES explores the workplaces leading that shift.
As cities grow hotter, shade has become essential public infrastructure. PAGES explores five architectural installations across the Middle East and beyond that are redefining how we design for comfort outdoors.
Long before air conditioning, Emirati homes were designed to work with the heat. PAGES explores how vernacular architectural practices like the barjeel, arish houses and shaded courtyards are finding new relevance in contemporary Gulf design.
From the Friday Mosque in Isfahan to an unassuming villa in Dubai, PAGES explores how Islamic maximalism has always used ornament, geometry and craft to tell the stories that minimalism cannot.