23rd November 2010: Invited speaker, Eric R Kuhne, closes the first day of Dubai's Big 5 Construction Conference with his presentation on 'The Rise of Madinat Al Hareer (City of Silk)'.
Emblematic of the CivicArts approach to 'architecture as the new diplomacy', he will lay out a vision for a 21st century Kuwaiti city that offers a new Arabian model for urban design.
Featuring the lofty Burj Mubarak Al Kabir (Tower of 1001 Arabian Nights), the talk will encompass other ambitious projects, including the Borabay Lakes Development in Kazakhstan and Belfast's Titanic Quarter: one of Europe's largest waterfront regeneration schemes.
Big 5 Website
Madinat Al Hareer (City of Silk) project profile
Titanic Quarter project profile
Borabay Lakes project profile
Background
CivicArts / Eric R. Kuhne and Associates is a research and design firm founded in 1983 as an international design consultancy dedicated to the reintegration of architecture, landscape and the civic arts. With projects in North America, Europe, Australasia and the Middle East, Eric R. Kuhne and Associates is renowned for its efforts to build great civic spaces in retail, leisure, commercial office, waterfronts, public buildings, parks and gardens. Each project claims a significant restoration of the story-telling qualities of architecture and the landscape through an aggressive civic arts program.
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