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Gulf News interview: Architectural wonders can be a burden for businesses

Gulf NewsGeorge’s interview published in the Dubai based Gulf News, August 2010: Architectural wonders can be a burden for businesses (more...)

The Dubai Factory: Export / Import

Tower_of_BabelDespite the current generic icons of Dubai’s urbanism, the mental map of the city is about Islamic imagery. Dubai manifests the contemporary interpretation of Orientalism, sensual, spectacular, artificial, subliminal and above all contemporary and global. A (more...)

Bauhaus legacy and Dubai

“Dubai’s World Trade Centre is an elegant high-rise building. Buildings of that period [the 1970s] were clear statements of modernism, commissioned by the Ruler to reposition the city and look at the future, yet relating to their environment.”

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Interview published in Nikkei Architecture

Nikkei ArchitectureThis rapid expansion of the city has inevitably created a new architectural phenomenon: individual high-rise blocks grouped together by virtue of proximity and with little or no surroundings create distinguished skylines. (more...)

Article published in the With/Without book by Bidoun

with/withoutGeorge has contributed to the With/Without publication by Bidoun (more...)

Moderator of panel discussion at the Sharjah Biennial 8

sharjah biennialSharjah Biennial 8, 4 April – 4 June 2007 ‘Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change’ (more...)

Articles published in the Al Manakh book by Archis

al manakhGeorge has contributed to the Al Manakh publication by Archis Foundation (more...)

Article in The Superlative City publication

The Superlative City
constructivismGeorge has contributed to the publication The Superlative City Dubai and the Urban Condition in the Early Twenty-First Century

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Interview on BBC World Service Radio: Culture Shock

marina 2The Dubai Experiment soon became the the Dubai Phenomenon. Is this now the beginning of the Dubai Success? (more...)