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Compasses magazine is a quarterly magazine dedicated to investigating the transformations of design and architecture in the reality – fascinating and in rapid transformation – of the Middle East. Discover the latest issue, the C41, entirely dedicated to the world of libraries and the challenges they face after the development of digital.  



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Compasses is considered the most knowledgeable international interior design and architecture platform in the Middle East, an integrated communication system operating mainly in the market of the Gulf Countries.

Compasses quarterly magazine was set up in Dubai in 2007. Compasses Architecture & Interior Design was originally intended to become a unique showcase of Middle Eastern continuous transformation into a charming, dynamic and contradictory anthropized environment. In its pages you can appreciate new trends in urban planning and architecture. Compasses is now after ten years of “publishing” a media platform of contents and ideas targeting architects, interior designers, consultants, traders, design and architecture addicts and VIPs. With several years of experience, Compasses will show you the architectural innovation.

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Relive Dubai Design Week and Downtown Design with our C-Plus

Relive Dubai Design Week and Downtown Design with our C-Plus

Compasses magazine was one media partner of the 2023 edition of both Dubai Design Week, the largest creative festival in the Middle East, and Downtown Design, the most important fair for high-level contemporary design of MENA Region.

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Getting closer to Big5

Getting closer to Big5

From 4 to 7 December 2023 Compasses Magazine will be a media partner of Big 5 Global. Don’t miss out.

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Ai in Architecture: the study of the sector transformations, in our C42

Ai in Architecture: the study of the sector transformations, in our C42

After the birth and development of artificial intelligence, how did the processes of creative design change? We talk about it in the new issue of Compasses magazine: a deepening in the virtual dimension of AI.

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Towards a paradise regained

Towards a paradise regained

In 2024, Maison&Objet will mark 30 years of French-inspired excellence in the home décor, design and lifestyle industry. Marking this occasion, the january show will take visitors on a journey to a re-enchanted future, where technology and nature exist in harmony.

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Ready to discover Index Dubai?

Ready to discover Index Dubai?

Do not miss the special issue of Compasses entirely focused on the largest and most significant international exhibition of Architecture and Design in the Middle East.

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New C-Plus is here in partnership with Downtown Design

New C-Plus is here in partnership with Downtown Design

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Can't wait for the next C-Plus?

Can't wait for the next C-Plus?

Read C+ issue for INDEX 2021, released last May

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Machine, artificial intelligence and human creativity: last call for abstract proposal

Machine, artificial intelligence and human creativity: last call for abstract proposal

The issue 42 of Compasses magazine deals with the theme of artificial intelligence applied to architecture. If you wrote a paper or an article on artificial intelligence, you can now publish it with us. Submit it by September 15th.

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Dubai Design Week and Downtown Design are coming up, together with the new C-Plus

Dubai Design Week and Downtown Design are coming up, together with the new C-Plus

Also in 2023 Compasses Magazine is media partner of Downtown Design, the Middle East’s leading fair for contemporary and high-quality design. Discover how to reserve the latest C-Plus and download the media kit to advertise on our special issue.

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Publish your project on sustainable architecture with us.

Publish your project on sustainable architecture with us.

Sustainable development is one of the hot topics in the contemporary architecture scene. Publish your project on sustainable architecture with us and reach international visibility and readers in the Middle East and worldwide.

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Four AUD awarded students at Everything Architecture

Four AUD awarded students at Everything Architecture

Everything Architecture 2022 Dubai presented 15 awarded projects among the participants in the AUD Architecture Senior Showcase 2022. Among them is also the winner of the Architecture Magazine Compasses Award, a special recognition given by Compasses magazine to young graduating architects and designers.

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Compasses magazine brings you along to Index 2023

Compasses magazine brings you along to Index 2023

The most important interior design fair in the Gulf, INDEX, will open in Dubai in a few days and will take place in the Dubai World Trade Center from 23 to 25 May 2023.
Discover all the news in our special issue dedicated to INDEX 2023.

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Christ & Gantenbein’s social housing in Paris

Vaugirard Social Housing is Christ & Gantenbein’s new housing project in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.

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Tashkent Modernism: What Future for this Heritage?

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Andrea Branzi, a radical designer

Andrea Branzi, Italian architect and designer, died at the age of 85. He left a…

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AMO for Bershka

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Herzog & de Meuron’s new SIP Main Campus

Herzog & de Meuron completed the SIP Main Campus in the municipality of Allschwil in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Looking for an architecture or design event? Find the major international events, exhibitions, trade fairs and conferences held in the Middle East region and around the world.

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Big 5 Global<br> 4 - 7 December 2023

Big 5 Global
4 - 7 December 2023

Big 5 Global gives you a front-row seat to find new suppliers, explore future trends, learn directly from the industry’s big thinkers and so much more. 
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Everything Architecture<br> 7 December 2023

Everything Architecture
7 December 2023

Spark your creative fire through engaging talks and immersive discussions, at our exclusive networking event – a must-attend experience for Architects and Designers
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Maison & Objet<br> 18 - 22 January 2024

Maison & Objet
18 - 22 January 2024

Exhibiting at Maison&Objet Paris opens the door to a world of business opportunities and sparks connections and inspiration. Fancy joining the community?!
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UAE & MENA Real Estate Market Report 2020

It’s time for the Real Estate Community to unite: discover more on UAE & MENA Real Estate Market, download the Report 2020 by Cityscape.

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Everything Architecture | Interview with Dr Anna Cornaro

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Compasses meets Pietro Del Vaglio

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A small gesture which will help us stick togheter during this crisis.

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