GLOBAL UPDATE
News from global architecture, design and development.

PROJECTS
32 TAIWAN: Emerald Dream
The competition winning design for the National Kaohsiung Performing Arts Centre in Taipei.

36 UAE: Urban Diplomat
Design of the headquarters for the local government of UAE’s upcoming Emirate, Ajman.

40 LEBANON: Grand Annex
The new underground extension to the Lebanon’s seat of power, the Grand Serail in the capital, Beirut

46 BIG STORY
THAILAND: Far Eastern Awakening
Perched high on a dramatic headland on the west coast of Phuket, one of Thailand’s southern provinces, and one of its largest islands known for its woodlands and sandy white beaches, is the development called Samsara.

INHOUSE
56 POLAND: Aatrial House

60 AUSTRALIA: Cape Schanck House

66 CHILE: Casa Serrano

72 USA: Introverted

TREND SETTER
Global happenings and products from the world of interiors

INTERIORS PLUS
84 CANADA: A Tale of Two Concepts
The Designers Collection and the Personal Shopping Suites at Canada’s premier luxury department store, Holt Renfrew flagship in Toronto.

90 USA: A New Kind of White
Private loft conversion in Soho, Manhattan NY.

94 TAIWAN: Risky Business
The stark & mysterious Gallery More.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
100 JORDAN: Sustainable Landscape Architecture in Amman
The Jordan National Gallery Park

COMMUNITY & PLANNING
106 NAIROBI: Another Slum? Maybe not
Low cost housing solution for Kairobangi South

SMART ENVIRONMENTS
110 USA: Xeros Residence

116 GERMANY: Carbon Mitigating Design
Green architecture at the Alterra (previously the Institute for Forestry and Nature Research).

123 WALES: A ‘Wise’ Approach to Education
Low cost and low tech architecture for the new Wales Institute for Sustainable Education.

125 GREECE:  Noise Free Shopping
Sound proofing in the capital’s largest mall, The Mall Athens.

124 FRANCE: Green Library
Environmentally-responsive design at the Academic Campus Library at the University of Reims.

CONSERVATION & PRESERVATION
128 INDIA: Reincarnated
Restoration of the Rajbada (City Palace) in Indore

134 CYPRUS: Lefkara Revisited
RehabMed’s Lefkara Pilot Project: Rehabilitation of the Urban Landscape

PEOPLE & PRACTICE
Issues and topics pertaining to the profession and industry as well as the people involved.

ASPIRING ARCHITECT
149 Restructuring the Architectural Curriculum for Ecological Sustainable Development (ESD) in all Institutes of Higher Learning in Malaysia by Dr. Abdul Malik Abdul Rahman