United Arab Emirates

Modular pods designed to withstand a particularly sensitive setting

Ethereal Portals

The world’s tallest structure of 828 meters

An intimate haven with a sense of coherence — one with equal emphasis on the inner and outer spaces.

A surrealist speakeasy has opened in the heart of Dubai as a nod to retrofuturism

Exploring the balance between solid and void, opaque and transparent, interior and exterior

Giant Faberge Eggs in luxury restaurant

A brutalist experiment with country equine architecture

The wonderland in the desert

The 20 projects will compete for the prize

Transparent, material and vegetation elements express the traditional palace and garden

Metal columns arrayed like a magnetic field

Suspended Cycling podium transfers the energy from the studio into the gym floor

To produce and establish a Kuwaiti identity that is rooted in its migrant history, yet embraces its contemporary image

Alternating encounters of art and landscape

A ‘museum city’ in the sea

The design of a courtyard blurs the boundary between architecture and landscape.

The concrete surface wraps the space and creates a somehow isolated atmosphere.