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Completed in 2012, the Tom Ford’s Ranch designed by Japanese Architect Tadao Ando has a serene Japanese aesthetic that blends surprisingly well with the 24,000-acre ranch arid terrain of Santa Fe, USA. Designed for the famous fashion designer, the project…
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In 2009 Marwan Al-Sayed, Wendell Burnette and Rick Joy completed the Amangiri resort located in the USA’s Grand Circle region. The resort overlooks the beautiful desert scenery and the Southwest’s iconic flat-topped mesa rock formations, Amangiri (‘peaceful mountain’). Five national…
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Aït Benhaddou is a historic ighrem or ksar (fortified village) along the former caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakech in present-day Morocco. It is considered a great example of Moroccan earthen clay architecture and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987. While in the 1940s, more than 90 families were living in…
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In 1990, Antoine Predock completed the Nelson Fine Arts Center on the ASU’s Tempe campus. The complex houses the ASU Art Museum, the Galvin Playhouse as well as dance classroom and studios. The structure is known as the “magic mountain”…
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Pyramid Rock is a private residence designed by Matt Goodman in 2015, Australia that “encourages the occupants to venture outside and experience the landscape”.
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Ziggurats were ancient towering, stepped structures built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels. They were made of mud-brick that appear to have served as temples to…
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The new WADI RUM Desert Resort designed by the Florida-based firm Oppenheim Architecture takes advantage of the natural landscape in order to appreciate the surrounding landscape. Residences, rooms and hotel amenities are built into the cliffs, and inserted into the natural…
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The new Spa & Resort hotel designed by Oppenheim Architecture creates a simple and clear topographic transition from the desert to the sea-inspired in vernacular traditions.
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