ARCHITECTEM

by night

The Tanween 2022 festival, held in Dammam, puts Saudi Arabia at the forefront of Middle Eastern companies imagining their post-petroleum economies for its large investment in culture.⁠
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Misk Art Institute, Riyadh The museum is situated in a protected green zone of the Wadi Hanifah. With the excavation and the freestanding museum placed within it, public connections are made between wadi level and the upper Misk City. The facades are made of casted glass elements, that diffract and diffuses the daylight to all the interior spaces. The rotation of the sun, and the presence of the site and excavation, can be felt throughout the whole building.

Pushing the boundaries between artistic mediums like no other contemporary artist, Sterling Ruby's art practice demonstrates that it is not the medium which defines the artist, but his vision and statement. Sterling Ruby has been developing a singular and very coherent world, through an unusual diversity of media. This show is built around an extraordinary polyptych of Ruby's signature spray paintings, the legendary SP paintings. In essence, through his Spray-painting series, Sterling Ruby paid a tribute and reinvented Rothko's work, using aerosol as a contemporary medium for XXIst Century paintings made in Los Angeles.

At a time when the art industry debates the concept of immersive art experiences, it is meaningful to highlight the natural immersive dimension of those works on canvas. The extra-large polyptych SP217 we present in this exhibition, is made of 5 giant canvases totalizing some 30 meters length. This is possibly the most immersive spray painting of Ruby, recalling that immersion and the subtility of the color diffusion, the spectacular waterlilies installation by Monet at the Musée de l'Orangerie, in Paris.

Born in 1972, Sterling Ruby grew up in a farm in Pennsylvania. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, USA, and counts today among the leading figures of contemporary art. His Spray paintings are considered masterpieces of the early XXIst Century.
This exhibition in Concrete happens to be the very first one of Sterling Ruby in the Middle East.
An exhibition presented by the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation

Curated by .neutres ae

Expo City Dubai to host COP28

Just announced – Expo City Dubai will host the global climate summit COP28 from 6-17 November 2023. Taking place at the legacy site of Expo 2020 Dubai, COP28 will be the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

In addition to bringing together global leaders to address the climate emergency, COP28 will offer a programme of thought-provoking youth discussions, public activations, performances and exhibitions as part of a sustainability-themed calendar.

The one-year countdown starts now….

📸 Terra, The Sustainability Pavilion at Expo City Dubai - Design by Grimshaw © Expo 2020 Dubai / Phil Handforth

The third issue of the Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism is now available online. You can access the journal through the link in our bio, where you can download the complete issue, or any of the articles separately.

Printed copies of all three issues of the magazine are available free of charge. Please contact [email protected] for more details. Please note that shipping is not included.

are also seeking contributions for the fourth edition until March 21, 2023.

Image: Sebastian Treese Architekten, ‘The corner building at Peterstraße Kempen’ (c) Ralf Schmitz


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As part of Design Week, a very interesting conversation organized with the Dutch Consulate & Embassy UAE and . Consul General H.E. Dr. Carel Richter shared the journey of the Dutch Pavilion and it’s dismantling and reuse of all of its building material post expo. Speaking on sustainability Caroline Bos from shared some of their projects and contributions towards more green and sustainable designs. Architect Ahmed Bukhash of was part of a panel with represented by chairman H.E. Dr. Ali Mohammad AlJassim. The conversation revolved around learning from traditional design and architecture as rooted in sustainability and upcoming projects being developed by to cultivate a more circular cycle of reuse and recycle. The backdrop of the evening was .koolhaas designed .ae

Details link in bio 🖤

On the occasion of the Ambasz Institute’s (first!) exhibition about the history of environmental thinking in architecture at MoMA (open fall next year), we’ve teamed up with to host an EAHN thematic conference that will take place in Reykjavík, September 21-23, 2023.⠀
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The conference website is up (link in bio), so please tell the architecture historians in your life to check it out! Information about keynotes and special excursions will be announced early next year. ⠀
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Never gets old 💎🖤

The crescent moon and ~ Ramadan Kareem ✨

Image from the reel posted by on the occasion of moon sighting marking the start of the Holy month of Ramadan.

May this blessed month lead us to the peace we are searching for 🤍