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Palestine Architecture News
19 Jun 2013
Birzeit Historic Centre, Birzeit
Design: Riwaq
photo : Riwaq
Birzeit Historic Centre
This five-year project, part of a rehabilitation master plan initiated by Riwaq, has transformed the decaying town of Birzeit, created employment through conservation and revived vanishing traditional crafts in the process. Community involvement was encouraged from the start, including local NGOs, the private sector, owners, tenants and users, all working with the municipality.
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4 Jan 2012
Palestine Architecture Competition
Palestinian Museum Architecture Contest
image from organiser
Palestinian Museum Building Design
The Welfare Association announces the appointment of Heneghan Peng Architects to masterplan and design the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Following an extensive selection process The Welfare Association has announced that it has selected Architects to masterplan and design the Palestinian Museum which will be located in Birzeit in Occupied Palestine. The appointment is announced of Dublin based Heneghan Peng Architects, designers of the Grand Egyptian Museum, who will be responsible for Masterplanning a phased development of the Palestinian Museum on a very important site within the overall campus of Birzeit University, near to Ramallah.
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Palestine Architectural Designs
Key Palestine Architecture Design:
Cultural centre – Dar al-Kalima Academy, Bethlehem
2004
Architects: Juha Leiviskä, Finland, with Bassem Khoury
Link: Juha Leiviskä
Residential Masterplan in East Jerusalem
Design: Pie Architecture
Development of approximately 2,500 houses
More modern Palestine architecture projects online soon
UNICEF provide aid to children affected by the conflict in Gaza: www.unicef.org.uk
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Middle East Building Designs
West Bank Wall : Discussion by Frazer Hay – excerpt below:
This document proposes the West Bank Wall separating Israel from Palestine be listed as a World Heritage site. This important site has huge cultural significance internationally and is a key iconic structure which highlights the struggle between cultures and religious beliefs. The West Bank is no different from the other walls in our history which have divided people and fuelled conflict and oppression.
The Berlin Wall and Hadrian’s Wall in the UK are now seen as heritage sites but were in there time no-less sensitive and brutal in their nature. Crucially the Berlin Wall was not given any sort of protection and as a result fell victim to misuse and abuse at the hands of such things as eBay itself an iconic phenomena of our contemporary consumerist culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
More Palestine building news online soon
Location: Palestine, Middle East, western Asia
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Buildings in countries adjacent to Palestine
New Middle East Architecture Designs – recent selection from e-architect:
Israel Buildings
image : Archivio Fuksas
Jordan Architecture
picture © Foster + Partners
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Buildings in countries close to Palestine
Saudia Arabian Buildings
image : UAP
Lebanese Buildings
picture from architects
Key building in the Middle East:
Kuwait National Assembly
Date built: 1982
Architect: Jørn Utzon
Architectural competition 1972 – resulting in a creative design by this Danish master architect, evoking the traditional tent canvas of The Gulf.
Buildings / photos for the Contemporary Palestinian Architecture Designs page welcome.