Photographs by George.
The city’s simulated monuments are made
to look artificial, in total defiance of their reality; the city is
an avatar of itself. By photographing from a helicopter using
a special lens and other filters chooses what one really likes.
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George’s interview published in the Dubai based Gulf News, August 2010: Architectural wonders can be a burden for businesses
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By adopting contemporary form-making practices, such as modeling in the physical and the digital form, the work of the studio attempts to break some of the preconceived boundaries of architecture, notably that of the traditional sequence of site, program and proposal.
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Despite 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
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“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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In the 21st century the rush to consume anything from objects to culture and lifestyle has become synonymous with success. The UAE is now ranked among the top 10 international retail destinations. Dubai’s retail space is approaching 2 million square meters. The city is almost all about advertising, marketing and shopping in an act of ‘total lifestyle’.
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George presented Emerging Morpho(eco)logies at the International Conference on Patterning from Traditional to Contemporary Architecture, 16 October 2007, Tehran, Iran.
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George has been invited and served as a juror for the 2010 Dubai Cityscape Awards in for Architecture in the Emerging Markets
George has been invited and served as a juror for the 2010 Middle East Architect awards