Show threadCiarán FerrieNov 11, 2024
Credit to Foster + Partners and Meccanoo for pulling out of the project https://archive.fo/hxX3h
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Ciarán FerrieNov 11, 2024

More architects willing to put their name to the Neom project despite the record of human rights abuses surrounding the project.

Shame on Delugan Meissl and Gensler.

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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/11/11/the-line-architects-delugan-meissl-associated-gensler-neom/

Neom names Delugan Meissl Associated Architects and Gensler as The Line architects

Austrian studio Delugan Meissl Associated Architects and Global studio Gensler have been named as the architects for phase one of The Line mega city, which is being built as part of the controversial Neom project in Saudi Arabia.

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Show threadCiarán FerrieMay 9, 2024

I've said it before and it is becoming more clear that the architects working on this project are complicit in murder. At what point do you say "No, I'm not taking that commission"?

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68945445

Neom: Saudi forces 'told to kill' to clear land for eco-city

An ex-intelligence officer tells the BBC he was permitted to shoot dead those resisting eviction.

Ciarán FerrieMar 15, 2024

Architectural description of a new development in Dubai. Sounds like hell on earth to me.

#EthicalArchitecture #Dubai #Architecture

Ciarán FerrieMar 4, 2024

For a country with such conservative attitudes towards sex, Saudi Arabia sure does love its phallic symbols.

And starchitects sure do love prostituting themselves to governments with appalling human rights records.

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https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/foster-partners-behind-plans-for-2km-tall-saudi-tower

Foster + Partners behind plans for 2km-tall Saudi tower

The AJ can reveal that Foster + Partners is working on the multibillion-dollar project to build the world’s tallest building – a 2km-high skyscraper in Riyadh twice the height of the current record holder

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Ciarán FerrieFeb 20, 2024

Some really interesting projects in the seven finalists for the EUMies Awards 2024, featuring adaptive reuse, modular building, public space and ecological building methods.

It's great to see architectural awards recognising works that tackle the question of how we should build in a climate emergency.

https://eumiesawards.com/architecture-emerging/7-finalist-works-2024/

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7 finalist works 2024 - EUmies Awards

The 5 Architecture finalist works are the Plato Contemporary Art Gallery in Ostrava (Moravia-Silesia, CZ) by KWK Promes (Katowice, PL); the Study Pavilion on the Campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig (Lower Saxony, DE) by Gustav Düsing & Max Hacke (Berlin, DE); the Reggio School in Madrid, (Community of Madrid, ES) by ANDRES JAQUE […]

EUmies Awards
Ciarán FerrieSep 19, 2023

The headline "Zaha Hadid Architects designs skyscraper for Saudi ski resort" tells you everything that is wrong about the architectural profession right now

Building a glass skyscraper, on a mountain, as part of a ski resort, in a desert, for a country that kills journalists and funds international terrorism, on land that has been forcibly cleared and protestors sentenced to death, with money that has been earned by the proliferation of fossil fuels, in a #ClimateEmergency

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Ciarán FerrieMay 9, 2023

Any architects involved in this project are complicit in this appalling abuse of human rights
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/05/05/un-human-rights-council-experts-alarm-executions-neom/

#EthicalArchitecture #Architecture #SaudiArabia #Neom #HumanRights
#Adjaye Associates, #Morphosis, Studio #Fuksas, #CoopHimmelblau, #ZahaHadid Architects, #UNStudio, #Aedas, #LAVA, #Mecanoo

UN Human Rights Council experts "express alarm" over imminent executions connected to Neom

The United Nations Human Rights Council has issued a statement denouncing the planned executions of three people for reportedly opposing the Neom mega project in Saudi Arabia.

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Ciarán FerrieFeb 4, 2023

Very disappointed to read about some of the architects associated with this project. The involvement of Zaha Hadid Architects doesn't surprise me but I expected better of David Adjaye.

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https://www-dezeen-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.dezeen.com/2023/02/04/this-week-the-line-architects-saudi-arabia/amp/

This week the architects of The Line in Saudi Arabia were named