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Aga Khan Award for Architecture app is now available

The AKDN has launched a mobile app featuring the winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture over the past three decades. The app is available for free in the iTunes App Store and is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, and includes video, photographs, drawings and descriptions of each of the winning projects.

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As construction progresses, Torontonians get to peek at plans for the Ismaili Centre, the Aga Khan Museum and their Park

With the walls of the new Ismaili Centre and Aga Khan Museum beginning to emerge along Wynford Drive, Toronto architectural firm Moriyama & Teshima discussed the projects at a recent event held at the Ontario Science Centre. Their presentation, which took place against the backdrop of an exhibition of images and architectural renderings, was attended by prominent guests including Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.

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Qatar Jamat celebrates the values premiated in award-winning Muslim architecture

As the “Cultural Capital of the Arab World in 2010”, Doha was a fitting venue for the Award Ceremony of the 11th cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, which was held in November. The event was particularly special for members of the Qatar Jamat, who were jubilant over Mawlana Hazar Imam’s visit to their peninsular country.

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Mawlana Hazar Imam in Doha for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture

Doha, Qatar, 24 November 2010 — Mawlana Hazar Imam, together with His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, and Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, presided over the Award Ceremony of the 11th cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture today. Five projects were selected as winners of the 2010 Award, and Professor Oleg Grabar received the Chairman's Award.

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» AKDN: Recipients of the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture
» AKDN: Full video of the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture
» AKDN coverage of the Award Ceremony including the press release, video highlights, speech, and photographs
» Nineteen projects shortlisted for the 11th cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
» Aga Khan Award for Architecture to be featured in BBC documentary series
» AKDN: Aga Khan Award for Architecture

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Mawlana Hazar Imam in Qatar for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture

Doha, Qatar, 22 November 2010 —Mawlana Hazar Imam, accompanied by Prince Hussain, arrived in Doha today, where the Award Ceremony for the 11th cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture will take place later this week. Hazar Imam and Prince Hussain were received by Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kuwari, Qatar’s Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage, and Naushad Rashid, President of the Ismaili Council for the United Arab Emirates.

Also see:
» Nineteen projects shortlisted for the 11th cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
» Aga Khan Award for Architecture to be featured in BBC documentary series
» AKDN: Aga Khan Award for Architecture

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Aga Khan Award for Architecture to be featured in BBC documentary series

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture will be featured in a three-part documentary series titled Architects on the Frontline, to be broadcast at various times on BBC World television starting on 20 November. The final part of the BBC documentary will feature the 2010 ceremony, which will take place in Doha, Qatar later this month.

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Nineteen projects shortlisted for the 11th cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture

In May 2010, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture announced the shortlist for its 11th award cycle at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Selected from over 400 nominees, the 19 projects, spanning 16 countries, range from a small private residence in India to the conservation of an Ottoman town in Albania.

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Passing of influential professor of Islamic Studies leaves ‘a gap that will be impossible to fill’

Professor Mohamed Arkoun passed away in Paris on 14 September at the age of 82. An outstanding research scholar and a rigorous critic of the theoretical tensions embedded in the field of Islamic Studies, he was a courageous public intellectual and a powerful voice in the frequently contentious debates on Islamic modernism and humanism.

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Ismaili Centre, Dubai joins with Architectural Heritage Society to host lecture series

In the Autumn of 2009, the UAE Architecture Heritage Society hosted the ATHAR public lectures series in conjunction with the Ismaili Centre, Dubai. ATHAR is a programme of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, which advocates the conservation of cultural heritage.

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