Architecture & Design

Revisiting the museums, cultural centres and landmark projects that define her legacy across the Middle East

Mastering ChatGPT for interior design starts with the right prompts, here’s how to turn AI into your own design expert

From bourgeois home to sniper’s nest to museum, the bullet-scarred building stands as Lebanon’s war memorial, bearing witness as violence returns once more

The solar-powered, stainless steel canopy required plasma welding, on-site polishing and is one fifth the height of the Eiffel Tower

Beside a UNESCO World Heritage Site, ancient mud-brick architecture collides with glass brick and neon green

The Alfuraj – a small triangular opening in Najdi homes – reveals how vernacular architecture balanced climate responsiveness, privacy and structural integrity

In Sydney’s eastern suburbs, a family home is reimagined by Nina Maya around a freestanding wellness pavilion set within its own reflecting pool

Trees grow through ceilings and pristine lawns surround plunge pools, this is life, the Brazilian way

This thatched-roof park in the UAE channels millennia of architectural intelligence

From a city-run slaughterhouse in Madrid to a silent café in Budapest, these cinemas show how ordinary, forgotten spaces can be reborn as dazzling ministries of film, magic and history

In 859 Fez, refugee, Fatima Al-Fihri designed Al Qarawiyyin university and mosque, the world's oldest, predating Oxford University and the Sorbonne

Lidan Sfadia looked to the barn-style estates of Napa settling on crushed limestone driveways to make it feel like a winery

Across the region, libraries are evolving into key architectural landmarks, combining master engineering techniques, climate-responsive designs and powerful cultural symbolism

The humanoid robot artist behind paintings, portraits and now architectural concepts is less interested in replacing designers than in challenging what creativity means

Agata Kurzela Studio layers bespoke furniture, handwoven carpets and subtle historical references to reinterpret the majlis inside Abu Dhabi’s Zayed National Museum

From passive cooling and water management to climate-conscious urban planning, centuries-old desert cities were smarter long before “smart city” became a buzzword

In a converted schoolhouse in a small Vermont town, studio Pat Austin spent four patient years creating a playful retreat for the owner

The earthy interior is crafted using plaster made from Ukrainian clay and contrasted with shimmering steel

Here are 7 of AD's favourite works from the wild imagination of Smiljan Radić Clarke, known for his silver inflatable buildings, boulder pavilions and moody brutalist forest homes

Urban exhaustion may be engineered, eroding our humanity in the city