The recipients of the 2019 twelfth cycle of the Omrania | CSBE Student Award for Architectural Design.

176 entries were submitted for the 2019 twelfth cycle of the Omrania | CSBE Student Award for Architectural Design. Of these, 151 qualified for consideration by the Award. Those entries came from 38 universities in seven countries in the Arab world: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates.

The Award jury consisted of Jordanian architect Rana Beiruti, Co-Founder and Director of Amman Design Week; Turkish architect Can Çinici, Director of Çinici Architects in Istanbul; and American architect Thomas Vonier, President of the International Union of Architects (UIA).

The Award jury members met in Amman on October 15 and 16, 2019 to evaluate the participating entries and select the winners. They identified three equal winning projects, the designer of each is to receive USD 3,333 in prize money.

Winning Projects (in alphabetical order):

Gaia’s Protégé: Anti-Desertification Research and Educational Facility

By: Mohammad Alrababah Instructor: Saleem Dahabreh The University of Jordan

Rethinking the Tampouy Neighbourhood, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

By: Eline Sleiman Instructor: Jihad Kiame Academie Libanese des Baux-Arts

X-cavating the Future of Sidon

By: Christina Battikha
Instructor: Sinan Hassan
American University of Beirut

An Award ceremony and exhibition is held for each cycle to honor the recipients and to exhibit the participants' graduation projects. The Award ceremonies and exhibitions have been held in a number of cities in the Arab world, including Amman, Beirut, Sharjah, Irbid, and Manama. The Award ceremony and exhibition for this cycle will be held in Amman on November 26, 2019.

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