Muslim world’s best projects receive Aga Khan architecture prize from Shaikh Mohammad. Muslim world’s six best new structures scoops up Dh3.67m in prizes during a ceremony at Al Ain’s Jahili fort.
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00:00The Muslim world's six best new structures received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
00:13during a ceremony in Al Ain's Al-Jahili 4th on Sunday. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin
00:18Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai, and
00:22Prince Karim Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of around 15 million Ismaili Muslims and awards
00:27creator, presented the awards to the six winners. The winning projects were a mosque
00:33and social space in Bangladesh, a children's library in China, an urban park in Denmark,
00:38a university building in Lebanon, and a bridge in Iran. The winning structures were selected
00:43by a nine-member jury out of 348 submissions from 69 countries.
00:48The Aga Khan Award, which handed out 3.67 million dirhams in total prizes to the winners,
00:53is an architectural prize established by Khan in 1977. It aims to identify and reward architectural
00:59concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of Islamic societies. It is
01:04held once every three years.
01:06Irish Eden Belieza for Gulf News.