Green FIFA, Grey Reality
Criticism of FIFA’s leadership regarding private flight emissions overlooks the systemic environmental impact of hosting the World Cup across three…
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From Football to Super Bowl
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUp How America Redesigned the World Cup Experience About eleven months ago, I wrote in ArchUp about…
A Place of Worship, a School, or a Hospital?
A question posed by an architecture student — whether to build a place of worship, a school, or a hospital…
Who Really Builds Our Cities? The Conflict and Integration of Roles Between the Planner, the Developer, and the Financier
ArchUp Desk — The word “planning” often conjures images of rigid, top-down state control and centralized bureaucracy. However, modern urban…
The Driver’s Room: Architecture’s Forgotten Space
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUp There is a room that appears in almost every Gulf villa built in the last four…
Tersane-i Amire: Independent Structures in the Ottoman Shipyard
Spatial Configuration and Dialogue of Independent Structures The architectural proposition of the project is based on creating a deconstructive dialogue…
Penetrating Urban Density: Śhālā Twam’s Spatial Deconstruction
Penetrating Urban Density and Deconstructing Boundaries The spatial experience in this architectural composition begins at the moment of transition from…
The Architecture of Influence: How Infrastructure and Urban Spaces are Weaponized in Cognitive Warfare
Modern conflicts increasingly rely on “cognitive and subversive” warfare rather than physical destruction, with urban infrastructure and spatial memory becoming…
Trnava School Campus Renewal: Functional & Ecological Design
Urban Context and Site Condition The site is located within the cadastral zone of the city of Trnava on parcel…
O-day’min Park Edmonton: Urban Transformation and Public Space
Land Use Transformation in the Warehouse Campus District O-day’min Park is located in the Warehouse Campus district in downtown Edmonton,…
Freiham Project: Urban Massing and Spatial Reconfiguration
Urban Expansion in Freiham within the Munich Context The Freiham district in the city of Munich is considered one of…
15 de Outubro Environmental School, Teresina
Integration between Educational Facilities and the Surrounding Environment The “15 de Outubro – Mayor Firmino Filho” Environmental Municipal School is…
Mabelle Park: Public Space Through Community Participation
Transformation of an Underutilized Site into a Public Space within a Dense Urban Context “Mabelle Park” represents a case study…
Navy SEAL Museum San Diego: Maritime Memory and Urban Form
Urban Context and Relationship with the Navy The city of San Diego has a long-standing structural relationship with the U.S….
Svatman Reinterprets Terrain and Interior Space
Project Conceptual Approach and Relationship to the Site The “Svatman” project is based on the idea of retreating inward while…
Wakura Onsen Footbath and Post-Disaster Public Space Revival
Urban Context and Site The Wakura Onsen Footbath project is situated in a small coastal town in Nanao, Japan, within…
Secret Gardens: Density and Climate in Housing Design
Climate Architecture within the Urban Fabric The “Secret Gardens” project in the city of Montpellier was introduced as a model…
Shell Book Pavilion: Redefining the Kinetic Public Realm
Stability of Public Spaces and Rethinking Most Cities public spaces tend to maintain a fixed state throughout the day; they…
Green Anarchy: Urban Decay as Ecological Interface
Cities Between Human-Centered Design and the Potential of Decay Cities are primarily designed to meet human needs, where surfaces, façades,…
Gosford Regional Library: Park and Urban Integration
Urban Context and Site Relationship The Gosford Regional Library was designed to enhance civic presence within the urban core of…
595 West Georgia Street and Vancouver’s Urban Vertical Shift
Urban Context and Project Height Vancouver has a clearly defined urban fabric shaped between the mountains and the water, giving…
