“The most remarkable aspect of the approach of the UAE to culture in
general and design particularly is that the decision makers are quite open o variants and are not apologetic about the possibilities of discord,”
Artan is a Zoroastrian; once you go through his work you see the minimalism obvious in them. “ Let me tell you something. I’ve loved robots since I was a kid. But that was not the kind of love that goes crazy about the electrical complications, What I liked about them was that they were little things doing great works . It has become part of my personality since my childhood. Actually, I’ve lived most of my life in Zoroatrian’s society. I’ve always been in a minority group and that brought me a limited lifestyle.”
Dubai-based British architect Jonathan Ashmore reflects on how the UAE is creating modern history through its architecture
Commissioned by the Lebanese government in 1961, the International Fair in Tripoli was never completed. However, the vision of architect Oscar Niemeyer may still be realised