Dubai Municipality undertakes green projects worth Dh463 million
Gulfnews: Dubai Municipality undertakes green projects worth Dh463 million
Congratulation to CENTIMETERCUBE. They have been assigned by LIMITLESS to design an interesting Residential building. Big THANK YOU to my team. More info to be released soon.
I’m very excited to see Umm3 finally light up and runing for business. (Jumairah, Umm Sequiemm #1. Before Central Perk Cafe) This was one of my first projects that we (Farshid & myself) worked on while we were studying (2003/04). It was such an interesting project and location that we really wanted this UMM3 to stand out from the rest. It has a simple plane with a 22m pool running all the way thru each villa/shop. Our second tenant has opened his new selected furniture gallery by combining two villas. OBEGI [BETTER HOME] has a line of products, and my fav is Giorgetti. Earlier on this year, IF-Boutique moved in with branches from NY & Beirut. Wish them both a successful and healthy business. 1000 Mabrouk…
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Visited CityScape today in Dubai, and I was really impressed with some projects. I have to go back as I have a very limited time today.
You have to see this, It is with Nakheel. Amazing video/animation on a huge Dubai city model from 1973 to 2020. Great graphics with very inspiring words from the Nakheel people. Nice work
Simple physical model, which is coated with white spray. I like.
Typical huge models. This is one of the good site model. 
I have to be fair, some project were also awful. And this was the silly’est. It is some Golden Gate city. and it looks like from Ali Baba Cartoon. Who is going to pay Millions of $$$ for something that is so fake. Ah!
Designed to invoke the coziness of nanna’s best room, Grandma’s Kitchen is the ultimate example of space efficiency. The unit transforms into a full kitchen complete with a sink, oven, fridge and cooktop to prepare your meals. Then thru a series of slides and latches transforms into a dining area for 4. The great thing about this design is if you don’t feel like cleaning up after a big meal, just push everything back in and close up shop. Out of sight, out of mind - that is until the following morning.
Designer: Melanie Olle & Ilja Oelschlägel
The three wind turbines on the Bahrain World Trade Centre are scheduled to be commissioned in three weeks time, the last week of October 2007. This is the first time that a commercial development has integrated large-scale wind turbines within its design to harness the power of the wind. The three massive turbines, measuring 29 meters in diameter, are supported by bridges spanning between the complex’s two towers. Through its positioning and the unique aerodynamic design of the towers, the prevailing on-shore Gulf breeze is funneled into the path of the turbines, helping to create power generation efficiency.Once operational, the wind turbines will deliver approximately 11-15% of the energy needs of the building, or 1100 to 1300 megawatt-hours per year — enough to provide light in 300 homes for over a year. BWTC
TEMPOHOUSINGThis might be a tempo solution, but it is definitely not a temporary housing. Those very ugly 20ft/40ft containers that we see around Dubai causing huge traffic, could be turned into a beautiful habitat spaces with a minimum time to construct & budget. The brochure shows the many applications that we can use it in our upcoming new Dubai. With labour camps over populates, and Mirdif/Jumaira guys are paying 250% more than the market because they “Bachlors” in a family only property. This might be the solution (more…)
KITCHENS & beyond brings designer cooking to luxury Al Barsha villas
KITCHENS & beyond, the leading designer, supplier and installer of Poggenpohl and main dealer for Sub Zero/Wolf Appliance, is providing the award-winning PLUSMODO designer kitchen to 22 luxury villas being designed & developed in Al Barsha by a local company CENTIMETERCUBE. (link)
Just caught up with Atif “CM3 Guy” on site (The Warqaa Coutryards) to meet some architecture students from Penn University with Prof Samia Rab, Associate Professor of Architecture and Heritage Management, SAD. It was great to have a quick chat about Dubai and the new projects coming up all around. I think Atif did a good job explaining and giving details about the project 
Thanks man.I was really confidence confident today after talking to few students, and sharing with them our experience in building B22/Warqa, and the difficult tasks that faced us while working with Dubai Municipality & land owners. The end result was showing in our design that they were different from the neigbhouring buildings, and we are trying hard to make the landlord and the end users “tenants” both happy and comfortable in living in these spaces. I still believe we have not done our best, we see all the mistakes, and hosnetly, I don’t sleep at night due to some silly mistakes in design. Nevertheless, I can depend on my good team in bringing a new challenging designs for our new and upcoming projects around Dubai.I’m looking forward to have you guys again in our projects, feel free to contact me or Atif anytime you are back in Dubai. Ramadhan Kareem 
One of my early projects (2002) (2003) for me is to find our what is speed by a Photo. It was quite an interesting project, as it have revealed many techniques in photography that had effected me indirectly in design. In the image above, it have the illusion that I’m driving very fast, but in-fact it was about 3-5km max. I was really worried about my equipment falling off.