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Foster + Partners finished the design for the residential tower in Down-town Beirut.

PLP Architecture (PLP) has revealed a design for its second Four Seasons project:  Four Seasons Hotel Abu Dhabi at Sowwah Island, a luxury business hotel that will be located at the heart of Abu Dhabi’s new Central Business District.  The project is being developed by Mubadala Real Estate & Hospitality and was shown this week at Cityscape Abu Dhabi.

This villa located on a hill overlooking the three grand pyramids of Giza plateau, Egypt. The design model of this house is organised into two interweaving volumes, connecting in different points that become shared spaces.

designed by VJAA in Minneapolis, the Charles Hostler Student Center on the campus of the American University of Beirut sits as a new lelegant strict structure in the middle of the aging old buildings. The building has been commended by the AIA as one of the Top Ten Green Projects for 2009. The awards recognise projects as examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment.

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), funded with a $10 billion endowment from the king and slated to open in 2009, is central to Saudia Arabia's effort to overhaul its system of higher education and become a global center of collaborative science and technology research.The development of the University was assigned to Saudi Aramco by King Abdullah.

Office for Metropolitan Architecture have designed a new international airport for Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. Located between Jeddah and Mecca, the airport will cater for the two million pilgrims who make the journey to Mecca during the holy Hajj period and features a special terminal for the Saudi Royal Family.

Inspired by the uniquely beautiful monument of Petra. ...We are applying the principle of fluid erosion and carving to the mass of the building for the performing arts centre. The urban strategy pursues the maximization of open public space on the western edge of the site. The mass of the new building is therefore pushed into the eastern extension of the site to clear the wider western end for sake of creating a big public plaza.

Parcels 407 and 408 are mixed-use, and are developed as one combined lot with two towers - 88 meters and 133 meters tall. The site has its longest eastern face to the Wadi, and along this edge the design has 3 levels of continuous retail and public space.