iraq, Tag

Studio Libeskind just unveiled their design for The Kurdistan Museum in Erbil, Iraq. The new building will be made up of four interlocking volumes that represent the regions of Kurdistan - Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. The...

The birthplace of civilization has struggled through some tough times in recent years. The Iran-Iraq War, the Gulf War, the Iraq War, and now the conflict with ISIS have seriously damaged Iraq's infrastructure and undermined...

Builders in Iraq have their sight on the sky. AMBS architects have designed a 1,152 meter tall skyscraper-structure called The Bride. The name of the skyscraper is inspired by the location in which it is set to be built,...

World oil markets have responded with surprising resilience in the face of uncertainty, but are prices set to rocket?

In a week that witnessed Bill Shorten's humour, a war on budget naysayers and a double dissolution trigger, Joe Hockey said it all when he explained why politics is like a box of chocolates

West's co-optation of Gulf states' jihadists created the neocon's best friend: an Islamist FrankensteinFollowing the bulk of western reporting on the Iraq crisis, you'd think the self-styled 'Islamic State of Iraq and Syria'...

The intersecting swirls of Zaid Bin Talib's Embassy of Iraq in Oslo create an interesting play of animated forms. The skin provides gradual and discrete connections between different parts of the building. The two polarized...

The continuing conflict in Syria, and the slow spread of violence in the region around it, continue to make it difficult to make accurate predictions about the future of oil exports from the region...

Federal and regional governments locked in bitter dispute over revenue-sharing as new pipeline into Turkey nears completionOn a hot and dusty plateau in Iraqi Kurdistan, engineers in hard hats are gathered around a section...

Let me begin with two brief apologies – first, my last post on Iraq on TOD was hit with a vast quantity of spam that made it difficult to find all the pertinent comments, hopefully this post will have a little easier...

There is often quite a debate in the Peak Oil community over the difference between a reserve and a resource. Simplistically a resource is, for the sake of discussion, the amount of oil that is in the ground in a certain...

There is often quite a debate in the Peak Oil community over the difference between a reserve and a resource. Simplistically a resource is the amount of, for the sake of discussion, oil that is in the ground in a certain...

News of the future was, in my youth, something that one found by crossing the palm of a lady in a dark tent with a piece or two of silver (or the modern equivalent) at one of the fairs that came to town...

Report says toxic waste is being spread by scrap metal dealers, and describes its 'alarming' use in civilian areas during Iraq warsCleaning up more than 300 sites in Iraq still contaminated by depleted uranium (DU) weapons...

Leanan has noted the API report of the continuing drop in US oil demand. It would be wrong, I believe, to explain this purely by reference to the increased efficiency of vehicles now on the road, nor would it be realistic...