Aga Khan Award for Architecture Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/aga-khan-award-for-architecture/ Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:04:50 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 Wadi Hanifah, from dump to natural oasis https://ounodesign.com/2010/11/25/wadi-hanifah/ https://ounodesign.com/2010/11/25/wadi-hanifah/#respond Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:04:50 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=10745

Inspiring story about the 10-year long restoration of the Wadi Hanifah oasis outside Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, via Globeandmail.

“A Canadian planning and architecture firm has won an Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the sweeping transformation of a once-polluted Saudi waterway into a system of parks in the heart of the desert, using a system of bio-remediation.

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