Cairo-based Elgaiar Studio works through a slow process of building with cardboard, shaping new forms by hand.

SIBA El Gouna Red Sea introduces the town’s first multi-architect residential concept, built around waterfront living, elevated terrain and contemporary design.

Bill Willis translated the ancient textures of Marrakech into a new dialect of luxury, designing rooms of sublime contradiction for himself, for Marrakesh and most famously for Yves Saint Laurent.

From Bahrain to Saudi Arabia, these libraries show how reading spaces are being reimagined across the region.

OUALALOU + CHOI organise a campus through connected spaces, shaded walkways, and open public edges

Designed around BLK CAB’s Coffee & People philosophy, the new branch explores how architecture can bring people together.

Carpets, balconies, plastic chairs and frames appear across Chafic Mekawi’s work, carrying new meanings shaped by memory, identity and time.

Gooder Store in Dubai blends skateboarding, food and retail into a shared social indoor space at Alserkal Avenue.

Gamal Bakry’s daringly organic house that got its form from the rise of concrete expressionism during the twentieth century has been abandoned in Mohandessin after a failed renovation.

At the inaugural Arab Architecture Festival, a master of tradition is recognised for shaping the future of Arab architecture

This house defies modern standards. With no AC, power grid, and municipal water and sewage systems, it breaks all ties to urban life. It stands as a completely off-grid, self-reliant sanctuary.

Five-star lobbies are cool, but chasing colours that reveal entire cities’ histories, heritage, and even myths is definitely cooler.