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Bab el Bahrain Competition - Designs Bab Al Bahrain Square Competition Winners 1st Prize: Pearl Dive Lukas Lenherr, Switzerland   picture from contest organiser Bahrain Architecture Competition The void. A physically powerful identity and a strong sense of a space are given to a place when it contains a clear void. It is the void that connects people. Furthermore it is the void that re-animates the historical link to the sea. It is this void that re-locate things as they were in past times. This void, the heart of the project, is a vast open space of water. Its size makes up the entire competition perimeter. The excavated soil can be used for new offshore landfill. 2nd Prize: Two Rooms Baukuh and Guido Tesio, Italy picture from contest organiser 3rd Prize: New Times Square Partizan Publik- Dus Architects, The Netherlands picture from contest organiser Bahrain Architecture - Design Contest On the occasion of Manama: Capital of Culture of the Arab World 2012, the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Bahrain is organising an international open ideas competition for the redesign of the Bab Al Bahrain square. picture from Architecture Competition organisers The square holds the potential of becoming one of the most representative and significant public spaces in the Island due to its central location, although it is currently little more than an accumulation of surface parking areas. Bahrain Building - Latest Design Four Seasons Hotel Bahrain SOM - Skidmore, Owings and Merrill image from architects Four Seasons Hotel Bahrain The recent confirmation of construction work on the Four Seasons Hotel in the Kingdom of Bahrain has signalled new optimism in the nation’s employment and real estate sectors. Situated at Bahrain Bay - the country’s highest-profile, master-planned $2.5 billion waterfront community - the 5-star hotel’s commitment to an April 2014 construction completion date is set to inject new jobs, new capital, and new optimism into several of Bahrain’s flagship sectors. Bahrain Building Key Building Project in the Kingdom: Bahrain World Trade Center - Twin skyscrapers, Manama Architects: Atkins image from Atkins Bahrain Building Atkins was appointed to provide all masterplanning architecture and structural and MEP engineering design services for the Bahrain World Trade Center building site, located on the main King Faisal Highway in Manama, Bahrain. More than half its area was previously developed, buildings include the Sheraton Bahrain Hotel, an associated single-storey luxury shopping mall, an office tower, car parking facilities, services and landscaped areas. The Bahrain World Trade Center is a flagship development for Bahrain, raising the profile of Manama as it projects a world first in large scale integrated wind turbine use. Bahrain Architecture Major Bahraini Developments + Buildings, alphabetical: @bahrain Aedas @bahrain Durrat Al Bahrain Architects: Atkins image from architect Durrat Al Bahrain Durrat Marina Masterplan Architects: Atkins picture from architect Durrat Marina Masterplan Nomas Towers, Juffair Architects: Atkins picture from architect Nomas Towers Bahrain More Bahrain Architecture + Bahraini Building Projects online soon

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Bahrain Pavilion, Venice
Golden Lion winner for Best National Pavilion, 2010

photo © Adrian Welch
Bahrain Pavilion
The Kingdom of Bahrain has been awarded the Golden Lion for the best national participation at the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale.

The theme of the pavilion, RECLAIM, is an exploration of the decline of sea culture in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Three fisherman's huts displaced from their original sites in Bahrain are the focus of the exhibition.

This is the first official national participation of a Gulf State at the Venice Architecture Biennale. The architecture exhibition ran from the 29 Aug to 21 Nov 2010.

Bahrain World Trade Center Building : Wind Turbines

photo from Atkins

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