Insights

Education should not exist at the edge of communities – it should be placed at the centre...

Has modern architecture become too focused on cost, speed and convenience at the expense of craft, proportion and lasting value?

The most successful communities are not defined by buildings alone, but by the spaces between them – the places where people gather, meet unexpectedly, celebrate, converse, and connect...

nicholas’ Managing Director, Nicholas Bonaventure is delighted to be speaking tomorrow at the Design in Bahrain conference at the British University of Bahrain Auditorium...

Above a certain point, a building stops serving a city and begins consuming it. Vanity height accounts for an average of 12.6% of the world's 100 tallest structures. In the Burj Khalifa, 4,000 tonnes of steel serve appearance alone...

The souk was never just a market. It was the original mixed-use model, long before urban planners invented the term “mixed-use”. This iteration of the 7-minute residential souk, a proposition for Jeddah, takes that logic further...

We are focusing on what we consider to be one of the most resolved and contextually intelligent buildings in the Middle East. SOM’s Four Seasons Hotel Bahrain Bay is widely recognised for its presence on the skyline – set on its own island, it acts as a clear architectural marker within Bahrain Bay...

The souk was the original Arabian urban organiser: a shaded network of encounter with most urban functions in proximity. It defined how communities lived and interacted for centuries...

Nicholas has been looking at the work of Craig Ellwood – one of the most refined voices of postwar California modernism, and an architect whose work continues to feel assuredly relevant...

The civic courtyard is one of the oldest urban instruments we have. Long before mixed-use was a planning category, it was simply how people lived: an (often shaded) shared space...

Some of the best climate solutions were devised centuries ago: courtyards, shaded streets, fountains at the centre of a square. Builders in Saudi Arabia had no air conditioning, only observation and time...

We’re pleased to announce that Nicholas Bonaventure, Managing Director of nicholas, has been elected as the RIBA Country Representative for Bahrain within the RIBA Gulf Chapter...