Dubai-based architecture graduate Raudha Alghurair's incredible sugar sculptures are just one of the dazzling discoveries to be made at the inaugural Dubai Design Week. Scroll through to find more.
Discover Dubai design —
Dubai-based architecture graduate Raudha Alghurair's incredible sugar sculptures are just one of the dazzling discoveries to be made at the inaugural Dubai Design Week. Scroll through to find more.
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Indian-born Anjali Srinivasan's "Untitled (Archway)" is an "ephemeral, transparent arch built entirely using weblike glass filaments," in real time during the week. "The design of the structure is guided by principles of indeterminate inflorescence, which is the mode of unending growth using the specific rules of arrangement of flowers on a plant's stem."
Untitled (Archway) —
Indian-born Anjali Srinivasan's "Untitled (Archway)" is an "ephemeral, transparent arch built entirely using weblike glass filaments," in real time during the week. "The design of the structure is guided by principles of indeterminate inflorescence, which is the mode of unending growth using the specific rules of arrangement of flowers on a plant's stem."
Keiron Throssell
The Global Grad Show features the best designs from the world's top design schools, including self-driving sleeping pods, "ghost" furniture, a helicopter hacked from Ikea furniture, and a mirror that will show what you look like on the inside. <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F2015%2F10%2F26%2Fdesign%2Fdubai-design-graduates-show%2F">Discover more here</a>.
The Global Grad Show —
The Global Grad Show features the best designs from the world's top design schools, including self-driving sleeping pods, "ghost" furniture, a helicopter hacked from Ikea furniture, and a mirror that will show what you look like on the inside. Discover more here.
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Six temporary pavilions have been built by local architects LOCI Architecture + Design to the same specification: walls of transparent plastic, half-filled with local red sand. Countries from the Middle East and North African regions are prevalent this year: Jordan, Kuwait, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and hosts UAE are represented.
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Six temporary pavilions have been built by local architects LOCI Architecture + Design to the same specification: walls of transparent plastic, half-filled with local red sand. Countries from the Middle East and North African regions are prevalent this year: Jordan, Kuwait, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and hosts UAE are represented.
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Curator Waleed Shaalan explains that traditional Kuwaiti games teach lessons children will need when they're adults. One involves being buried alive: "It's facing death and not being afraid and its holding your breath for a long time. Skills you'd need if you're going to be a pearl diver."
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Curator Waleed Shaalan explains that traditional Kuwaiti games teach lessons children will need when they're adults. One involves being buried alive: "It's facing death and not being afraid and its holding your breath for a long time. Skills you'd need if you're going to be a pearl diver."
Keiron Throssell
Jordan's non-profit Arini, led by Liyan al Jabi, curated the country's pavilion. It features swings and cloud-like cotton sheets as a "blank canvas" for visitors to fill with their imagination.
Jordan pavilion —
Jordan's non-profit Arini, led by Liyan al Jabi, curated the country's pavilion. It features swings and cloud-like cotton sheets as a "blank canvas" for visitors to fill with their imagination.
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Bernard Khoury, dubbed "the bad boy" of architecture in the Middle East, has designed some of Beirut's most spectacular night clubs and entertainment venues. He explains why he once built a $100-a-course sushi restaurant in the middle of a Beirut refugee squat.
Local Heroes: Bernard Khoury —
Bernard Khoury, dubbed "the bad boy" of architecture in the Middle East, has designed some of Beirut's most spectacular night clubs and entertainment venues. He explains why he once built a $100-a-course sushi restaurant in the middle of a Beirut refugee squat.
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Brazilians Edson Pavoni and João Souza's "A Place to Departure" places two glass gates at the opposite side of Dubai Using sensing technology that can tell where the glass is touched, it sends a small pulse when visitors touch corresponding places at the other end of the city.
A Place to Departure —
Brazilians Edson Pavoni and João Souza's "A Place to Departure" places two glass gates at the opposite side of Dubai Using sensing technology that can tell where the glass is touched, it sends a small pulse when visitors touch corresponding places at the other end of the city.
Keiron Throssell
Celebrated LA street artist Paige Smith teaches attendees how to embellish ordinary items with the hand-made kirigami structures she has made famous with her U<a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fcities%2F2015%2Fmay%2F08%2Furban-geode-street-art-paige-smith-los-angeles" target="_blank" target="_blank">rban Geode project</a>.
Urban Geodes —
Celebrated LA street artist Paige Smith teaches attendees how to embellish ordinary items with the hand-made kirigami structures she has made famous with her Urban Geode project.
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A series of mirrors simultaneously reflect glimpses of passing time, counting back from "now," says designer Yohei Iwaki, to seconds into the past. "The shifting reflections question the observer and his connection to the present moment."
Fragments of Now —
A series of mirrors simultaneously reflect glimpses of passing time, counting back from "now," says designer Yohei Iwaki, to seconds into the past. "The shifting reflections question the observer and his connection to the present moment."
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