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A
wave-wind study was
completed for the Tala Bay Marina
in Aqaba. Kirk
McClure Morton (KMM) of Belfast, the United
Kingdom carried out the study in association with Darb
(Design Associates and Research Bureau) for the Jordan
Projects for Tourism Development (JPTD). The study
included wind and water data analysis, offshore wave generation
and transformation, inshore wave modeling, and harbor
disturbance modeling. The study aims at reaching the safest
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In a ceremony that took place in
Aleppo, Syria, the Jordanian architect Jafar
Tukan was honored as one of nine recipients of the
2001 cycle of the Aga
Khan Award for Architecture for his design of
the SOS Children's Village
in Aqaba. The complex, which functions as a family-based
orphanage, was completed in 1991. It occupies a site of 20,000
square meters, has 2,700 square meters of built areas, and cost
1.2 million JD (about 1.7 million $US).
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