ibda design
ibda design is a design-driven architecture studio with a focus towards a project’s specific context and a close attention to detail.
The two partners, Wael Al Awar (Lebanon) and Kenichi Teramoto (Japan), each own unique biographical stories that first led them away from their home countries, then later to collaborate in Dubai. Thus, they share a mutual ability to observe a city up-close and intimately, yet also from afar, with the attentive eye of an “outsider”. With no first-language shared between them, the two are required to communicate through architecture, using design as a language. Upon merging their individual sensibilities of form and natural landscape, they reach an architectural consensus amongst themselves, and the context.
ibda design was recently recognized by Architectural Record’s “Design Vanguard” as a top emerging firm in the world, and by Architectural Digest as a Top 50 office within the Middle East. ibda design has won numerous awards for projects, including: 2018 Hong Kong Design Award, 2018 New York Design Award, and 2018 AIA Middle East Honor Award for Hayy: Creative Hub in Jeddah; 2016 London Design Award for Hai d3; 2016 Faith and Form Religious Architecture Award, and 2018 Arab Architects Award for Al Warqa’a Mosque; and in 2016, was shortlisted in the international competition for Beirut Museum of Art.
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