Desert architecture

the winning competition design 'dunas' by jasper architects camouflages as an oasis within the golden deserted landscapes of kuwait.

Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks with American architect Rick Joy about what kind of architecture he likes to visit, and about designing buildings as instruments.

Despite the South American country's explosive development of late, careful design measures ensure it remains in “the sustainability sweet spot”

Nestled in Riyadh’s desert, this Mediterranean-style modern villa captivates with its warm color palette, rustic materials, contemporary geometry, and striking brick exterior. #Architecture #Design #Inspiration

From Snøhetta’s $245 million Central Library in Calgary, Canada, to Berlin’s ‘eco-intelligent’ Philological Library by Norman Foster, these stunning spaces are anything but quiet

The first concept of this projest spring in my mind in 2017, I was considering a kind of consistancy between traditional architectural concept in tropical climate witn new form transformation by means of surface planes to achieved both introverted and extroverted atmosphier. more over the characteristic of desert nature and the context of the project must be considered. the plane form exactly acquiring from Conciliation and convexity of desert topography. This form provide a best sun…

In the city of Aqaba in southern Jordan, Oppenheim Architecture has designed the ‘Ayla Golf Club’: an unusual clubhouse with an undulating concrete shell that...

We've rounded up 10 desert houses that make the most of their situations in inhospitable landscapes, including one in Egypt and one near Marrakech

This first dedicated and cohesive book on Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy (1900-89) compiles an exhaustive amount of diverse material on the modernist architect known for his work developing tradition

Architecture studio Anarchitect has turned a couple of stone buildings from the 1960s into Al Faya Lodge, a hotel and saltwater spa in the Sharjah desert.