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Fashion & style
fromCN Traveller
6 hours ago

An insider's guide to shopping in Dakar, Senegal's understated, fashionable capital

Senegalese design is gaining global recognition, showcasing unique artisan crafts and vibrant culture in Dakar.
US news
fromwww.npr.org
6 days ago

Greetings from downtown Cairo, where unpretentious cafes are part of centuries-old charm

Wust el-Balad in Cairo is a historic area rich in architecture and culture, offering a glimpse into the past and fostering community connections.
#marrakech
Paris food
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Mysterious Marrakech: why I never tire of Morocco's Red City

Marrakech, known as the Red City, offers a unique aerial perspective of its vibrant landscapes and historical significance.
#morocco
fromArchitectural Digest
8 months ago
Renovation

The Best Airbnbs in Morocco Are Never Lacking in Personality

Moroccan Airbnbs feature vibrant designs, local craftsmanship, and relaxing atmospheres, ideal for design-conscious travelers seeking unique experiences.
fromCN Traveller
1 month ago
Fashion & style

Behind the scenes of Conde Nast Traveller's latest fashion shoot in Morocco

Morocco’s landscapes, craftsmanship and luxury riads provided ideal locations and inspiration for photographing the SS26 spring fashion collections.
Renovation
fromArchitectural Digest
8 months ago

The Best Airbnbs in Morocco Are Never Lacking in Personality

Moroccan Airbnbs feature vibrant designs, local craftsmanship, and relaxing atmospheres, ideal for design-conscious travelers seeking unique experiences.
#architecture
fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago
Berlin

Disciplinary Reflections for a Planet in Transition and a New Airport Terminal in Casablanca: This Week's Review

Architecture is evolving with a focus on decolonization, climate crisis, and urban regeneration across various global initiatives.
fromwww.archdaily.com
3 weeks ago
Design

Villa Elfida / CD Architectes

Villa El Fida is a refined architectural project that harmonizes with its landscape and light, featuring a unique promenade design.
Berlin
fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

Disciplinary Reflections for a Planet in Transition and a New Airport Terminal in Casablanca: This Week's Review

Architecture is evolving with a focus on decolonization, climate crisis, and urban regeneration across various global initiatives.
Design
fromwww.archdaily.com
3 weeks ago

Villa Elfida / CD Architectes

Villa El Fida is a refined architectural project that harmonizes with its landscape and light, featuring a unique promenade design.
Renovation
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 weeks ago

Jali House / Studio VDGA

Jali House exemplifies innovative urban residential architecture, utilizing traditional elements to enhance light, views, and climate control within a limited space.
Berlin food
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

Amid ruins, Palestinians struggle to preserve Gaza's historic markets

Israel's military operations have devastated Khan Younis's historic Grain Market, reducing a centuries-old commercial hub to ruins and displacing generations of traders and shoppers.
Renovation
fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

X Architects Design Grand Mosque for Saudi Arabia's Diriyah Gate Development

The Grand Mosque in Diriyah serves as a cultural and urban anchor, integrating heritage preservation with modern urban development.
Upper West Side
fromArchDaily
4 weeks ago

The Earthen Towers of Shibam: A Vertical City in the Yemeni Desert

Skyscrapers emerged in late nineteenth-century America as urban solutions, but vertical building predates modern cities by centuries across various societies.
Travel
fromenglish.elpais.com
4 weeks ago

Siwa, Egypt's unknown oasis of salt lakes and wild desert

Siwa Oasis, located 450 miles from Cairo in Egypt's Western Desert, remains an isolated paradise with unique Berber culture, turquoise lakes, and vast sand dunes that have preserved its untouched character for centuries.
LA real estate
fromsfist.com
1 month ago

Prominent Pac Heights Mansion to Be Used as Entertaining Space for the Algerian Consulate

A historic Pacific Heights mansion sold for under $10 million to the Algerian government after two years on the market, down from the $15 million asking price.
Books
fromTravel + Leisure
1 month ago

Southern Morocco Is One of the World's Last Great Unexplored Destinations-Here's How to Visit

Returning to familiar travel destinations enables deeper understanding and appreciation than initial visits, requiring intentional re-exploration to move beyond surface impressions.
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

Sports Campus in Ben Guerir / OUALALOU+CHOI

Conceived as a center for top-level sportsmen and women on a regional scale, this project incorporates a high density of programs and uses, within an arid territory and a loose, poorly defined urban fabric. The architecture is monumental in its design but retains great simplicity in its implementation and in the choice of materials used.
Renovation
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Renovation
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

Care Villa / FELT architecture & design

An existing villa is transformed into a mental health care home by stripping it to its structural framework and redesigning the interior around a central corridor connecting independent studios.
#residential-architecture
Relationships
fromConde Nast Traveler
2 months ago

How We Pulled It Off: A Morocco Wedding in a 14th-century Palace-Turned-Riad

A worldly couple chose Marrakech for a multicultural destination wedding for 100 guests with varied cultural celebrations and immersive local atmosphere.
Miscellaneous
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Intestines of a Building: Aziza Chaouni on Architecture's Systems and Resources

Moroccan architect Aziza Chaouni prioritizes hidden building systems, community engagement, and sustainable design rooted in contextual awareness and technical pragmatism across African regions.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Historic market in Kinshasa ready to reopen to a million shoppers a day after five-year makeover

I started out getting vegetables from Goma and selling them in this market. I never expected to be the one rebuilding it decades later, says Bakarani. We have built a market with local people, especially our mothers and sisters, in mind. We have kept the concept of the old one but have enlarged it, and it is more functional. It was a nightmare imagine what it was like for our mothers or sisters selling there exposed to the sun from morning till evening Dieudonne Bakarani
Real estate
Design
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 months ago

Lei Wa Lakom Library / Parallel Studio

Lei Wa Lakom Library applies modest, climate-responsive, and context-aware design to generate lasting cultural and educational impact through socially driven architecture.
Philosophy
fromAeon
2 months ago

What the 'Louvre of the desert' reveals about the human story | Aeon Videos

Tsodilo Hills preserve over 4,500 rock paintings reflecting complex spiritual, social, and artistic traditions of the San across tens of thousands of years.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

A Day in the Bazaar: When Architecture Is Observed in Time

Bazaars function as temporal systems where spatial order emerges from repetition, occupation, and shared timing rather than fixed architectural form.
Travel
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

I lived abroad by myself when I was 22. I wish I'd waited until I was older.

Moving abroad at 22 brought growth but intense homesickness, making later-in-life travel feel more aligned with deeper self-discovery.
Fashion & style
fromTravel + Leisure
2 months ago

An Insider's Guide to Merida, the Yucatan's Most Enchanting City

Carlos Huber of Arquiste creates evocative fragrances inspired by historical scenes, his Mérida villa, and Yucatán culture.
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

Vault House / Encasa Archstudio

Turtle Arts Photography + 41 More SpecsLess Specs Turtle Arts Photography Text description provided by the architects. Vault House is conceived as a contemporary tropical residence that balances raw materiality with warmth, openness, and family-centric living. Designed for a multi-generational family comprising a couple, their daughter, and parents, the house responds to a clear client vision: a home that is unique, user-friendly, and deeply connected to natural light, ventilation, and greenery.
Design
Travel
fromCN Traveller
2 months ago

My Favourite Airbnb: an artful townhouse with Mallorcan soul

A sunlit, sandstone Mallorcan townhouse blends sculptural architecture, vintage furnishings and a creative village setting with easy access to water and local cafés.
Renovation
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

Muimenta Social Center / Eduardo Dipre Mazza + Daniel Gomez Magide + Miguel Angel Diaz Gonzalez

A multi-purpose social center in rural Galicia revitalizes an abandoned village through infrastructure rehabilitation, economic activity generation, and improved quality of life for residents.
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

curved arches stack together for central courtyard villa by nextoffice in iran

A continuous, stacked-arch courtyard reinterprets Iranian courtyard typology, creating a porous three-dimensional central void that organizes light, movement, privacy, and climate control.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

mayfair garden residence is defined by crafted layered textures and natural light in india

The Mayfair Garden Residence is a refined interior design project by Indian designer Ashmit S Alag, located in the leafy neighborhood of Mayfair Garden, . Conceived as a contemporary home rooted in classical sensibilities, the responds to a desire for timeless luxury that feels both calm and current. The project explores how traditional design language can be reinterpreted through modern planning, natural light, and advanced detailing to create a serene yet expressive domestic environment.
Renovation
Design
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Could we have 13 million new tiles please? The astonishing 42m rebirth of modernist masterpiece Africa Hall

Addis Ababa's Africa Hall is a landmark of African modernism, embodying postcolonial optimism and hosting the 1963 founding meeting of the Organisation of African Unity.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

eila by MOFA studio realizes biomorphic art retreat in india through fluid architecture

Perched on a steep hillside overlooking Naggar valley in Himachal Pradesh, India, Eila is an art retreat that functions as an extension to the terrain rather than a static object. Designed by MOFA Studio, the project champions fluid architecture through advanced computational design, realizing a structure that mimics the landscape. The site's masterplan adopts a stepped strategy that preserves topsoil and rainwater runways, organizing the resort as a gradual, terraced descent.
Design
Renovation
fromDesign Milk
2 months ago

This Al Mahra Residence Is a Contemporary Expression of Place

A renovated Dubai villa emphasizes material presence, structural expression, and seamless indoor–outdoor living to respond to climate, craftsmanship, and local social lifestyle.
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

900 Saint-Jacques / Chevalier Morales Architectes

At the heart of the Quartier des Gares, the 900 Saint-Jacques tower offers a contextually sensitive response to contemporary challenges of high density urban living.
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

open planted courtyard organizes a cafe carved directly into rock in saudi arabia

Peacock Ha'il is a project by Movs Studio located in Ha'il, Saudi Arabia, within an evolving urban context shaped by new construction and prominent geological formations. The site originally consisted of an unfinished structure positioned directly beside a tall formation, which became a defining condition for the project and a central design constraint. Rather than treating the rock as a backdrop or decorative feature, the design integrates it into the architectural logic of the café.
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