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Sharjah’s famous architectural landmark, ‘The Flying Saucer’, has been shortlisted for Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2022.
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Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2022 Selects 20 Shortlisted Projects from 16 Countries 2022-06-02
Posted June 2nd, 2022 by librarian-hdThe Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) has announced its 20 shortlisted projects for the 2022 award cycle. Competing for the US$ 1 million prize, one of the largest rewards in architecture, the 20 architectural developments located in 16 different countries, were selected by a Master Jury from a pool of 463 projects nominated for the 15th Award Cycle (2020-2022). The jury, among which are Anne Lacaton, Francis Kéré, Nader Tehrani, and Amale Andraos, will meet again this summer to examine the on-site reviews and determine the final recipients of the Award.
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Remarks by His Highness The Aga Khan at the Architectural Awards ceremony held in Kazan, Tatarstan 2019-09-12
Posted April 16th, 2022 by librarian-hdI think of this ceremony as marking the history of this wonderful country and its relationship with a faith which we all practice. As we look forward to the future, it's important that we carry with us the values of our faith. That they be there around the world, all the time, amongst all Muslims.
So I take this occasion to say how happy I am to be here to participate with you in the the launch of the stamp process and I wish happiness, good success in the practice of faith and that we all work together for peace in our world.
Thank you
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Closing Remarks, First Seminar, The Aga Khan Award For Architecture (Aiglemont) 1978-04-01
Posted March 15th, 2022 by librarian-hdPartings are sad, and all the more so when they separate people with a common bond and a united interest. In this particular case, however, I think we can say a revoir, or “till we meet again,” rather than goodbye. I say this because I believe our commitment to the problem of architecture for Muslims is such that our path must cross again.
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Master Jury announced for 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2021-09-24
Posted September 25th, 2021 by librarian-hdBangladesh's Professor Kazi Khaleed Ashraf one of the nine jurors
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture has announced the nine-member Master Jury for the 2020-22 cycle. From Bangladesh, Prof Kazi Khaleed Ashraf, Director-General of Bengal Institute for Architecture, has been named as a juror.
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Speech by H.H. The Aga Khan in French at the Academie des Beaux Arts in Paris, France 2016-06-22
Posted February 12th, 2020 by librarian-hdDiscours prononcé par Son Altesse l’Aga Khan
pour l’installation de M. Dominique Perrault à l’Académie des beaux-arts
le mercredi 22 juin 2016
Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim
Monsieur Dominique Perrault
Votre premier jour sous la Coupole inspire de grandes joies :
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Hazar Imam at the 14 cycle of the AKAA in Kazan, Tatarstan Soviet Republic 2019-09-12

Hazar Imam giving closing remarks at the Architectural Awards ceremony in Kazan, Tatarstan 2019-09-14
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Speech by His Highness The Aga Khan IV at The Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2019 Award Presentation Ceremony 2019-09-13
Posted September 13th, 2019 by librarian-hdBismillah-ir-Rahaman-ir-Rahim
As-Salam-Alai-Kum, Peace be upon you
Your Excellency Mintimer Shaimiev,
Your Excellency Eleonora Mitrofanova,
Respected Members of the Government,
Distinguished Guests
What an enormous pleasure it is to welcome all of you to this ceremony.
We gather today with a group of extraordinary people, in an extraordinary place, and for an extraordinary purpose.
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture is organised around a series of three-year cycles - each one culminating in the recognition of our Award recipients.
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Aga Khan Development Network attends International Economic Summit in Russia
Posted May 2nd, 2019 by librarian-hdAKIPRESS.COM - At the invitation of H.E. Rustam Minnikhanov, President of Tatarstan, His Highness the Aga Khan was represented by Dr. Shamsh Kassim-Lakha who led the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) delegation to the 11th International Economic Summit in Kazan from 24 to 26 April 2019.
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20 Projects shortlisted for 2019 Aga Khan Award
Posted April 25th, 2019 by librarian-hdKAZAN, Russian Federation, 4 hours, 31 minutes ago
The 20 shortlisted projects for the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced today in Kazan at an exhibition on the awards. Among them were the Bahrain's Revitalisation of Muharraq, Oman's Muttrah Fish Market in Muscat and Sharjah's Wasit Wetland Centre.
The expo was inaugurated by Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of Tatarstan. The shortlisted projects, which are located in 16 different countries, will compete for $1 million in prize money.
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OPENING REMARKS AT THE SEVENTH SEMINAR IN THE SERIES "ARCHITECTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD "
Posted March 3rd, 2019 by librarian-ldA little more than a year ago, the Sixth Seminar organised by the Aga Khan Award for Architecture met in China -- first in Peking, where experts from throughout the world talked about rural architecture and such important questions as the role of the experts, financial and otherwise, in the creation of rural living environments suitable for the men and women there who produce the raw materials that are essential to our community life -- and then in Urumqi, Turfan, Kashgar, cities bearing witness to the thrust of Islam eastwards.
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Speech by His Highness at the Closing Winners' seminar of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Posted February 28th, 2019 by librarian-ldI would wish to begin my closing remarks by first of all expressing my sincere thanks and deep feeling of gratitude on behalf of everyone connected to the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and from myself to the President of the Republic of Syria and to the Prime Minister and his Government for the most generous, thoughtful and constructive way in which they have enabled the Aga Khan Award for Architecture to hold its prize-giving ceremony and related events here in Aleppo.
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Closing Remarks at Winners' seminar of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Posted February 28th, 2019 by librarian-ldI would wish to begin my closing remarks by first of all expressing my sincere thanks and deep feeling of gratitude on behalf of everyone connected to the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and from myself to the President of the Republic of Syria and to the Prime Minister and his Government for the most generous, thoughtful and constructive way in which they have enabled the Aga Khan Award for Architecture to hold its prize-giving ceremony and related events here in Aleppo.
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Aga Khan Award for Architecture Closing Ceremony, Marrakech 1986-11-25
Posted February 26th, 2019 by librarian-ldI would like to begin by expressing the Award’s gratitude to His Majesty the King and the Government of Morocco for having welcomed the Award to have its third Prize giving Ceremony here in Marrakech. I would also like to thank most warmly the Cabinet Ministers of the various countries who have done the Award and the profession and the winning projects. The honour of having come from their countries to participate in these ceremonies and to testify thereby their interest in the work that is being done within their own countries to develop a better environment for the people who live there.
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Hazar Imam delivery the speech at the AKAA ceremony in Istanbul 1983-09-04

is Highness the Aga Khan addressing the audience at the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) 1983 ceremony held at the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.
AKDN / Christopher Little
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Hazar Imam in Portugal for the AKAA Awards 2013

His Highness the Aga Khan and Portuguese President Cavaco Silva arrive at the Castle of São Jorge in Lisbon for the presentation ceremony for the 2013 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
AKDN / Gary Otte
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Aga Khan Awarded The 2017 Architectural League President's Medal 2017-05-18
Posted May 15th, 2017 by librarian-hdThe Architectural League of New York has announced the recipient of its 2017 President’s Medal: His Highness the Aga Khan, the 49th hereditary Imam (Spiritual Leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Aga Khan Award in Architecture – an annual award established to celebrate building concepts that have successfully addressed the needs of Muslim communities from around the world.
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Prince Hussain and Prince Aly Muhammad in Dubai 2016-11-04
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Aga Khan warns climate change will affect Muslim world 2016-11-07
Posted November 7th, 2016 by librarian-hdDubai: Climate change threatens to wipe out areas of the Islamic world within two decades, the spiritual leader of around 25 million Muslims said on Saturday.
Many of the world’s Muslims live in a “band of land” under threat from natural disasters caused by climate change, the Aga Khan told a hushed audience gathered at a Dubai hotel. “We’re beginning to see in many parts of the Muslim world … how global warming is beginning to create situations where life is at risk, where it was not at risk before.”
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