How One Bedouin Well Became a High-security Jordanian Prison

How One Bedouin Well Became a High-security Jordanian Prison

On the foundations of a Bedouin well, a British site for colonial control and surveillance eventually became Al Jafr prison. The site indicates that once built, the architecture of control persists through changing political regimes and modes of domination.

Masterplan for the City of Skopje

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Failed Architecture #04: Copenhagen’s Domus Vista

Nakagin Capsule Tower, Shimbashi, Tokyo

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Moscow’s Narkomfin Building

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Reactions to UK Riots

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Detroit Wild City: Reborn Center or Dying Heart?

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Failed Architecture #03: Failure as a Matter of Politics

Failed Architecture #02: Taste and Modernist Architecture

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The Downfall of British Modernist Architecture

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Failed Architecture #01: Preservation as a Matter of Urgency

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The Nazis and the US May Be Gone But the Devil Remains

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Sanzhi UFO Houses, Taiwan

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Berlin’s Palast der Republik

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