Dubai Design Week 2025: Sixteen Highlights Under the Burj Khalifa
Glowing winter gardens, woven forests, a megaphone that projects AI-powered dreams, and more… At Dubai Design Week 2025, creativity takes centre stage.
ABWAB pavilions at Dubai Design Week 2024
The 2024 ABWAB installations reinterpret vernacular architecture from Iraq to Ethiopia and propose ecological building techniques using palm waste and mycelium.
TukTukDum table by Altqadum at Dubai Design Week 2024
Omani architecture studio Altqadum created an interactive, convivial piece of furniture that invites visitors to socialise, play and make noise.
The Enfold Pavilion by DEOND is a “Holistic Embrace of Body and Technology”
Entirely crafted from corrugated cardboard, the Enfold Pavilion features an AI-infused ‘second skin’ fabric that “could help treat anxiety and de-accelerate the mind and body.”
Dubai Design Week 2024: creativity under the Burj Khalifa
Inflatable bedouin tents, Palestinian carpets, upcycled palm waste, and playful dinner furniture incorporating tablemates… Check out the best of Dubai Design Week 2024.
Jwana Hamdan’s ‘Courtyard’ at Downtown Design 2023
Jwana Hamdan returns to Dubai Design Week with brand-new, high-end outdoor furniture inspired by a luxurious courtyard.
Tanween 2021: 4 design, science and material innovation projects inspired by the UAE
A Biosand cabinet, a tech-crafted ottoman with river tamarind leather-like fabric, ghaf tree lamps and desert cotton upholstery. With the Tanween 2021 program, Tashkeel platform for the UAE design scene presents the work of four emerging female designers who teamed up with local botanists, scientists, engineers and manufacturers to develop innovative materials and create bespoke furniture and lighting collections.
Dubai Design Week 2021: 10 must see exhibitions and installations
Dubai Design Week 2021: a pavilion referring to the UAE moving desert, communal spaces inspired by traditional Emirati dance and more…
Downtown Design 2019: 7 exhibitions and furniture designs inspired by Middle Eastern heritage
Palm weaving techniques, traditional Middle East architecture and landscapes of shape-shifting dunes are re-interpreted in contemporary designs at Downtown Design 2019 in Dubai.
Aljoud Lootah’s ‘Mudeem’ collection re-thinks traditional Emirati wooden chests
Emirati designer Aljoud Lootah launches MUDEEM, a collection of hand-crafted storage boxes inspired by the traditional ‘Mandoos’ chests. The series “keep pace with a changing world”.
Dubai Design Week 2019: 7 highlights on show in the UAE creative capital
Afghani crafts, a pavilion inspired by wind towers of the Gulf and a gateway exploding the patterns of light created by traditional gridded windows in Middle Eastern architecture. We rounded up some of the best installations and exhibitions at Dubai Design Week 2019.
Top 5 exhibitions and installations on show at Dubai Design Week 2017
The Burj Khalifa as a huge sundial arm, a pavilion made from up cycled bed springs and Casablanca creative vibe. Dubai Design Week 2017 showcases the creativity of Middle East and beyond!
