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Saudi environmental efforts win global acclaim: Sultan bin Salman

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Published: Dec 3, 2010 23:42 Updated: Dec 3, 2010 23:42

RIYADH: Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities President Prince Sultan bin Salman said the Wadi Hanifa project in Riyadh recently winning the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2010 is an international recognition for the Kingdom’s efforts to achieve a healthy balance between the rapid modern development and environmental protection.

“What is achieved in the Wadi Hanifa project serves as a successful model for locations that are exposed to vast environmental destruction as a result of an inundation of developmental projects. The project proves that environmentally threatened areas could be restored to locations that enrich the environment of the surrounding regions on the one hand, and on the other, they could be converted to centers of urban development steeped in the local cultural heritage,” the prince said in a statement to the Saudi Press Agency on Friday.

The Wadi Hanifa Development project seeks to revitalize the 120-km green desert valley that cuts through Riyadh. The project was inaugurated by Riyadh Gov. Prince Salman, who is also chairman of the Arriyadh Development Authority (ADA), in April. It was one of five projects selected for the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture announced at a ceremony at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha on Nov. 24.

The major aim of the ambitious project undertaken by ADA is to restore and protect the wetlands, that are fed by the desert aquifer that comes close to the surface in the wadi.

The Aga Khan Award, bestowed every three years, recognizes exemplary projects in communities where Muslims have a notable presence.

The ADA said in an earlier statement that it devised a system involving three levels of running water along Wadi Hanifa as part of efforts to rehabilitate it.

“The first one is the level for permanently running water, which is replenished with groundwater networks in the city, treated water at reprocessing water stations and flood-draining networks,” said an ADA statement.

The second level is for seasonal floods that pour into Wadi Hanifa when the winter rainy season comes. The third level is for water brought about by floods that take place every climate cycle, or every 50 years. The ADA said that the three levels of running water are intended to solve the stagnant water problem that has afflicted Wadi Hanifa for a long time.

“For many decades, the wadi suffered from a stagnant water, necessitating its rehabilitation by controlling the sources of that water, halting the polluted industrial use, introducing a bio-treatment system and establishing a canal that guarantees a permanent pouring of water into the valley,” the ADA said.

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Landscape as Ecological Infrastructure for an Alternative Urbanity

Time: 2010-12-06 13:19:18 From:Mohsen Mostafavi, Implicate & Explicate Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Lars Müller Publishers, 2010: 282-283 By:Kongjian Yu

l am glad that the jury has selected the Wadi Hanifa Wetlands for the Aga Khan Award because this project embodies a powerful practice: the recovery of landscape as ecological infrastructure, as an alternative way to build our cities.

Civilization, over the course of centuries, has been defined in part as the control of natural processes and patterns: Those who were successful in exploiting natural resources and transforming natural patterns through technological advancements were considered highly civilized, while those who adapted to natural forces were seen as primitive. Cities are by far the largest and most complicated artificial devices that human beings have constructed, and they are considered by many to be the very testament of human civilization. From the origin of the city to its “modernized” form today, natural forces and patterns have become increasingly controlled and dependent on artificial processes. The quality of urbanity becomes measured by how quickly rainwater drains off our streets, how stable temperature and humidity are maintained in our rooms (or even in open spaces), how garden trees and shrubs are grown for ornamental purposes rather than for their productivity.

Over time, we have drifted away from nature and become disconnected from our roots as farmers and herders. This standard of civilization is built on heavily engineered gray infrastructure: complicated transportation systems designed for vehicles to deliver goods and services; huge pipe networks laid underground to drain excess storm water; rivers reinforced with concrete walls to control floods; Large sewage plants built to treat waste water; power lines to convey the energy necessary to run all of the machines and devices. Built upon this gray infrastructure are showy buildings with deformed heads and twisted bodies that deviate from what natural forces would allow.

Such a model of urbanity, created by Western cities du ring the early stages of their development, has unfortunately been adopted today by developing countries in general and the Islamic world in particular. Here, landscape is largely limited to tamed gardens and parks, where lawns and flowers are irrigated with tap water and storm water is d rained by underground pipes. Here, landscape is just like other components of an artificial city a sink of energy and services, rather than a source. Landscape as a natural ecosystem, and a round cities is largely neglected, its natural processes disintegrated and contaminated and its natural patterns fragmented. The landscape completely loses its capacity to provide what would have been free goods and services for urban communities.

What would an alternative city look like if its natural forces were respectfully used and not controlled? Vegetables and food would be produced along streets or in parks, floods would come and go to the benefit of the city, waste would be absorbed and cleansed by natural processes, birds and other native species would cohabit the city with human beings, and the beauty of nature would be appreciated in its authenticity, not tamed or tightly maintained. This alternative practice has many names: agricultural urbanism, landscape urbanism, water urbanism, new urbanism, sustainable urbanism, green urbanism and certainly ecological urbanism. The key here is that these alternative solutions do not rely on g ray infrastructure but instead utilize green or ecological infrastructure to deliver the goods and services that the city and its urban residents need.

Looking at the history of city planning and building, we find that traditional designs treat Landscape as one Physical and 0raanisationaI entity, rather than as isolated ornamental pieces. Most cultures and lslalmic culture in particular have a prescientific tradition of using geomancy to organise settlements based on the idea that a sacred landscape includes both spiritual and physical infrastructure. Since the late 1 9th century, the United States has used parks and green spaces as fundamental infrastructures to address urban problems such as congestion and sanitation. More recently, this concept of greenways was further developed into a more comprehensive and interconnected framework called green infrastructure, which is considered the basis for “urban form” within urbanising and metropolitan regions. In early 20th century Europe, greenbelt, green heart and green wedge were used by urban designers in growing cities as stoppers, separators and connecters Of urban development and to create a good urban form. Today, similar ecological networks are planned for metropolitan areas across Europe.

It is extremely important to caution urban decision makers in the developing world about mistakes made in the past by Western development. 1t is essential to under-stand that although the developed Western cities are now cleaning up by restoring green urbanism traditions, they are having to address the damage done to the urban environment du ring the 20th century. Their current adaptive solutions are mindful of global climate change and environmental sustainability. 1f we disregard the lessons learned, then the later developing and urbanizing world w…simply repeat the same mistakes that Western countries made, but at a much larger scale. Our decision makers need to understand that being later urbanised and developed provides opportunities to build better cities that enable better lives; but this is only possible if the alternative urbanism approach is chosen over the 20th—century North American urbanism model. The key here is that the planning and design of ecological infrastructure needs to happen before urban development, or as soon as possible.

Ecological infrastructure can be under—stood as the necessary structure of a sustainable landscape (or ecosystem)in which the output of goods and services is maintained and the capacity of systems to deliver those same goods and services to future generations is not undermined. What makes the concept of ecological infrastructure a powerful tool for advancing ecological urbanism is its marriage with the understanding of ecosystem services. Four categories of services are commonly identified:provisioning, related to the production of food and clean water; regulating, related to the control of climate and disease, and the mediation of flood and drought; supporting, related to nutrient cycles and providing habitat for wild plant and animal species; and cultural related to spiritual and recreational benefits.

It is important to recognise that the conventional approach to urban development planning, based on population projections, built infrastructure and architectural objects, is unable to meet the challenges and needs of an ecological and sustainable urban form. Conventionally, landscape and green elements are usually negatively defined by architectural and built infra—structure. By positively defining ecological infrastructure for the sake of ecosystem services and the cultural integrity of the land, the urban growth pattern and urban form are negatively defined. Ecological infrastructure builds a bridge between ecological urbanism. the disciplines of ecology(and especially landscape ecology),the notion of ecosystem services and sustainable development. It is the bridge between smart development and smart conservation.

The Wadi Hanifa Wetlands project stands as an example, albeit not a perfect one, of how a neglected landscape can be recovered as an ecological infrastructure. It offers an alternative method to a ray infrastructure in restoring and enhancing natural systems’ capacity to provide multi—pie ecosystem services, including cleaning contaminated water, mediating flood and drought, providing habitats for native biodiversity, as well as creating spiritual and recreational benefits. It is a step in the right direction for an alternative ecological Urbanism.

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09 Jan 2011 Press Release

Dohaland Chairs Lecture Series to shed light on the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture

Knowledge Enrichment Centre holds exhibition of the projects short-listed for the 2010 awards

Doha, January 09, 2011: Dohaland announced today that it is set to host a seminar entitled 'The Aga Khan Award for Architecture: Voices from Doha', along with an exhibition of the projects short-listed for the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The seminar will be delivered by the Dohaland Chairs in Architecture at Qatar UniversityQatar UniversityLoading... and will be held at the Knowledge Enrichment Centre on Wednesday 12th January, 2011 from 5.30 p.m. to 9.00 p.m., while the exhibition will be held from 12th January to 18th January, 2011. The seminar and exhibition build on the recent Aga Khan Award Ceremony 2010 which took place at the Museum of Islamic Arts in Doha, and form part of the Dohaland Chairs lecture series. Both events will be open to the public.

The exhibition will include 22 panels of contemporary architectural and urban interventions, with all 19 short-listed projects by the Award's Master Jury on display, highlighting the plurality and diversity of current contributions to architecture and urbanism in the developing world. The seminar will include five lecture presentations and discussions representing voices from Doha on the Award, its achievements, contributions to the discourse on architecture and urbanism, and the potential of projects within Qatar to receive future awards.

John Rose, Director of Development - Dohaland said: "The Dohaland Chairs lecture series forms a platform for an open dialogue on current and future architectural activities in Qatar and the region. It forms an important part of Dohaland's knowledge-sharing objectives. We are delighted by the participation of esteemed professors from Qatar UniversityQatar UniversityLoading... and experts in the region."

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was established in 1977 to recognize examples of architectural excellence that encompass contemporary design, social housing, community improvement and development, restoration, re-use, and area conservation, as well as landscaping and environmental issues. Through its efforts, the Award seeks to identify and encourage building concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of societies in which Muslims have a significant presence.

Both Professor Ashraf M. Salama and Professor Tim Makower, Dohaland co-Chairs in Architecture at Qatar UniversityQatar UniversityLoading..., will be presenting during the seminar. Professor Salama will provide an overview of the three decades of the Award's contribution to the contexts in which Muslim communities have substantial presence. The lecture will address issues that pertain to the evolution of the award, the rigorous review process, and the enlightening intellectual discourse that the Award has generated over the past thirty years. His presentation will also include a classification of the types of projects that addressed timely and pressing issues in their contexts and the way in which architecture can contribute significantly to its immediate environment and the larger societal and environmental context.

Professor Tim Makower will present reflections on the values of the Award in light of the current master plan of Musheireb project and the language of architecture it involves. His talk will address issues that pertain to design, community, and environment, while reviewing the Musheireb project from an Aga Khan Awards perspective.

The Aga Khan Award's projects technical review process is one of the most rigorous and comprehensive review processes of architecture awards. Highlighting his recent experience as a reviewer, QU Associate Professor of Architecture Dr Yasser Mahgoub's presentation will shed light on nature of the review process, reviewers' responsibilities, project study, on-site review, report writing, and presentation of the assessment study to the master jury committee.

Souk Waqif will be an integral subject for discussions within the seminar as one of the important short-listed projects for 2010 Award's Cycle. Mr. Mohamed Ali Abdullah, project manager of the rehabilitation and conservation project of Souk Waqif, will address the evolution of urbanity in the center of Doha since the middle of the eighteen century, the topography of the land and its impact in shaping clusters of houses and the roads and the process of restoration and reconstruction of historical buildings in Souk Waqif. Within the GCC context, QU Assistant Professor of Architecture Dr. Djamel Boussaa's presentation will discuss ways in which this heritage landmark can be sustained and conserved, despite the vulnerability and threats of the immediate context, high-rise development, construction sites, mass tourism, and traffic congestions.

Since its formal launch on 13th January, 2010, Dohaland's Knowledge Enrichment Centre has steadily gained prominence as landmark destination for visitors and residents alike as well as becoming a hub for education and knowledge exchange in the Qatari capital, attracting a variety of visitors ranging from students to high profile politicians and delegates from across the globe. The floating presentation centre moored off Doha Corniche is open to public from 9:00am to 8:30pm from Monday to Thursday, and from 3:30pm to 6:30pm on Saturdays.

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Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned established Dohaland with a mandate to address a gap in the architectural history of Qatar and rediscover a unique form of Qatari urban development. A subsidiary of Qatar Foundation, Dohaland aims to understand and implement how the best of the past, and modern, innovative technologies and thinking can be blend to create a new architectural language in Qatar. Construction work on Dohaland's signature project Musheireb was initiated on January 13th, 2010, by His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, and Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned, who revived an age-old Qatari tradition by leaving her royal handprint on the cornerstone of the project, due to be completed by 2016.

Dohaland has invested time and resources towards researching a new Qatari architecture and urban planning language with the foremost experts in the industry. Dohaland also launched its CSR commitment, Knowledge Enrichment Centre, a floating structure moored off Doha Corniche, designed to support the people of Qatar to flourish and enrich their experiences, and encourage a new culture of knowledge sharing. Dohaland will cultivate enduring environments for the benefit of people, built to the highest international environmental standards and best practice. The company aims to become the preferred real estate development partner in Qatar, leading by example, leading the market and becoming an employer of choice.

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16 Jan 2011 Press Release

'Voices from Doha' discusses Qatar projects' potential for future Aga Khan awards

Exhibition of 19 short-listed projects at Dohaland's Knowledge Enrichment Centre until January 18th

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Architecture Festival goes ME

One of the architecture world’s biggest meets is about to branch out to the region. In March, Abu Dhabi will host a Middle Eastern-specific iteration of the World Architecture Festival (WAF), which takes place annually in Barcelona. Architect Rafael Vinoly heads up a diverse and wholly inspiring panel of speakers. Hanif Kara, the head juror of the Aga Khan Award For Architecture, is set to speak at the event , along with Gerard Emery and Angus Campbell, two of the partners in the Foster + Partners firm.

The WAF Select Gallery, an exhibition space within the event, will showcase 50 of the top, Middle Eastern relevant projects from the Barcelona outing last November. Amongst these, the recently completed Tripoli Congress Centre (pictured), designed by Turkish architecture office Tabanlioglu, which scooped top awards at Cityscape Global last year, is a highlight. We’re also interested to see the extent of the Haramain High-speed Railway Stations, Saudi’s ambitious intercity rail system.

Elsewhere, there’s quite an interesting slant towards new developments in Tehran. The Vanak Garden Residential Complex is one such project, a collection of open space-conscious new apartments that try to bring some sense of rural-style conviviality into the depths of this sprawling city. The exhibition will examine how Vanak is proposing an alternative, more green-focused future for new architecture in the Iranian capital and points towards the structures of older neighbourhoods around town as an inspiration to make this happen. The development was shortlisted for WAF’s presitigious award in the 2010 outing in Barcelona.

There are also a number of pertinent and refreshingly relevant seminars taking place over the course of the event – Lee Polisano, founding partner of London firm PLP Architecture, talks about strategies to draw in long-term tourism without compromising some sense of ‘regional authenticity’, while Hanif Kara (Aga Khan Award) discusses the need to establish a modern, regional language of architecture. March 6-7

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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was established in 1977 by His Highness the Aga Khan to enhance the understanding and appreciation of Islamic culture as expressed through architecture. Its method is to seek out and recognize examples of architectural excellence, encompassing concerns as varied as contemporary design, social housing, community improvement and development, restoration, reuse, and area conservation, as well as landscaping and environmental issues. The selection process emphasizes architecture that not only provides for people's physical, social and economic needs, but that also stimulates and responds to their cultural and spiritual expectations. Particular attention is given to building schemes that use local resources and appropriate technology in an innovative way, and to projects likely to inspire similar efforts elsewhere. The Award is organized on the basis of a three-year cycle and is governed by a Steering Committee chaired by the Aga Khan. The shortlist of 19 nominees for the 2010 cycle of Aga Khan Award for Architecture was announced in May 2010 by the Master Jury. The nominees, which range from a textile factory in Turkey to a school built on a bridge in China, are located in Albania, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tunisia and Turkey. The final Award recipients will be announced at a ceremony to be held at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar in November 2010. The 19 nominees for the 11th Cycle of the Award are: * Conservation of Gjirokastra, Gjirokastra, Albania * Chandgaon Mosque, Chittagong, Bangladesh * Nishorgo Visitor Interpretation Centre, Teknaf, Bangladesh * CBF Women's Health Centre, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso * Bridge School, Xiashi, China * Tulou Collective Housing, Guangzhou, China * Palmyra House, Alibagh, India * Green School, Bali, Indonesia * Reconstruction of Ngibikan Village, Yogyakarta, Indonesia * Dowlat II Residential Building, Tehran, Iran * American University of Beirut Campus Master Plan, Beirut, Lebanon * Restoration of the Rubber Smokehouse, Lunas, Kedah, Malaysia * Rehabilitation of Al Qaraouiyine Mosque, Fez, Morocco * Souk Waqif, Doha, Qatar * Wadi Hanifa Wetlands, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia * Madinat Al-Zahra Museum, Cordoba, Spain * Yodakandyia Community Centre, Hambantota District, Sri Lanka * Revitalization of the recent Heritage of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia * Ipekyol Textile Factory, Edirne, Turkey.
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Prince Salman Receives Secretary General of Aga Khan Award for Architecture

Riyadh, Rabi Al-Akhir 08, 1432/ March 13, 2011. Prince Salman Ibn Abdulaziz, Governor of Riyadh Province, received here today the Secretary General of Aga Khan Award for Architecture Eng. Farrukh Darkashani, currently on a visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the invitation of High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh. During the meeting, they exchanged cordial talks and discussed a number of distinguished projects in Riyadh including the projects that have already won Aga Khan Award, namely Al-Kindi Square, outer ring and agriculture in Diplomatic Enclave in 1410H., the development of the Center of Riyadh City in 1416, Tuwaiq Palace in Diplomatic Enclave in 1419 and Wadi (Valley) Hanifa in 1431. The reception was attended Dr. Awwad bin Saleh Al-Awwad, Advisor to the Governor of Riyadh .

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The Quest for Architectural Excellence in non-Western Societies: Reflections on the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in its 11th Cycle

Repeatedly, in non-Western societies, successes and failures of designed environments go un-noticed. Opportunities for discussing lessons learned from intervening in natural or built environments are missed. Initiating change in the physical environment takes place in many cases as if there was no history or past to learn from. Frequently, gaps in knowledge transmission do exist because of the lack of rigorous documentation, especially give that assessment studies and critical writings have not matured in many parts of those societies. One way to bridge knowledge transmission gaps is to unveil merits of best practices through critical assessment of projects with the ultimate goal of creating a sharper public awareness of the role of architecture in enhancing and celebrating human activities, of its socio-cultural, environmental, and aesthetic qualities. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture-AKAA (1) continues to represent such a way. In this editorial, I reflect on selected projects of the Award’s 11th cycle, which were awarded or shortlisted.

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The age of colonialism in architecture is finally over. Yes, large firms based in the United States and Europe design buildings for sites all over the world and yes, most of the styles, construction methods, and tricks of appearance still show up first in buildings designed in those developed countries. What is fading away is the notion that there is a central canon or style, a type and a character, that works for the Western world, as we used to know it, and which architects, developers, and clients then impose on other places with little allowances for local climate, site conditions, ways of life, or traditions. We live in a global economy and culture, and it is more the empire of capital that of any one country that sets the tone. Against such domination, strategies of either resistance or just common sense use methods that are equally universal, though tied to specific situations.

The best celebration of the latter strategies I have seen is the recent publication of the Aga Khan's 2010 Award cycle. Entitled Implicate & Explicate, published by the most high-quality art and architecture bookmaker Lars Mueller, and designed by Irma Boom, it presents the award's short list with good photographs, plans and sections, and a wealth of (too-short, alas) essays. It finally makes a convincing case for the now 34-year-old triannual awards program, which focuses on worthy designs for Islamic communities all around the world.

Whereas in past cycles many of the winners and finalists have either looked like attempts to adapt Western modes to local types, producing Postmodern mosques and decorated houses, or had been altogether worthy constructions or planning efforts that never gelled into anything whose form could communicate a sense of place, belonging, or community, the current selection presents a parade of good buildings and planning efforts that make their arguments in coherent form.

Wadi Hanifa Wetlands, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Aga Khan Award for Architecture Seminar and Public Lecture Series in Malaysia

Penang and Kuala Lumpur, 29 October 2011 – Five Malaysian recipients of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and the Award’s Director, Mr. Farrokh Derakhshani, participated in a one-day seminar on architecture held in Penang on 29 October 2011.

The Malaysian recipients—Dr. Ken Yeang, Professor Ar. Jimmy Lim, Kamil Merican, Ar. William Khoo and Hamdan Abdul Majeed—all spoke at the seminar, entitled "Implicate & Explicate", which will explore the variety of projects that received the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture and their shared meanings.

Steering Committee member Farshid Moussavi and architect Laurence Loh also participated in the seminar. The seminar was followed by a discussion on "Penang: Past, Present, Future", which explored the evolution of Penang’s architecture and discussed responses to future growth.

The one-day event was held in cooperation with the Malaysian Institute of Architects and “Think City”, a subsidiary of Khazanah Nasional in charge of implementing the preservation of historic George Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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