Nadia Kaabi-Linke’s “A Shadow of a Shadow of a Shadow…” starts with a traditional mashrabiya pattern and grows with successive recreations of its shadow. (Emma Lee/WHYY) “This book became such an ...

architects are taking cues from an ancient Arabic design tradition. A high-tech shading system running up the facade of the Al Bahar Towers in Abu Dhabi was inspired by “mashrabiya,” latticed ...

For its design of Al Bahr Towers in Abu Dhabi, Aedas has developed a unique intelligent skin, inspired by the traditional Arabic mashrabiya ... on different geometric patterns from tessellating ...

stone-clad towers that are shielded from the Middle East’s “unrelenting sun” by an array of retractable sunshades whose shape was inspired by the Arab Mashrabiya pattern. Measuring nearly 15 ...

Each individual panel, produced in Dubai and measuring up to 12 × 3 meters, showcases Arabic mashrabiya patterns crafted from ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) and engineered stone agglomerate ...

Oxygen Villa is very much about light and air, and the name more than implies the homes breathing new life into a classic Arabic form of architecture — the mashrabiya. Developed centuries ago ...

They are also the last landmarks people would usually see. The mashrabiya filters the light and cools spaces and has long been a prominent pattern in the Arab household. “Mashrabiya is a cultural ...

architects are taking cues from an ancient Arabic design tradition. A high-tech shading system running up the facade of the Al Bahar Towers in Abu Dhabi was inspired by “mashrabiya,” latticed ...

The mashrabiya filters the light and cools spaces and has long been a prominent pattern in the Arab household. “Mashrabiya is a cultural heritage of this region. [The Expo gates] show how it can ...