Political crisis has stalled progress on key decisions in Iraq including one affecting MPs’ own offices in future parliament complex.
Middle East Online
By Prashant Rao – BAGHDAD
In wait-and-see mode
For weeks, Iraqi MPs have been locked in a political crisis that has stalled progress on key decisions including one affecting their own offices in a future parliament complex. (more…)
13-11-2012 01:14 PM
Amid the recent boom in oil production in Iraq, Hoteliers must deal with corruption and lack of experience and that Atharboa for attracting weddings.
Coral Hotel in Baghdad is the first of its kind in Iraq, where most of the hotels are managed by the government or English-language ‘Let us that Nredakm’. At the entrance stands Ugandan boys dressed in a kaftan the Maroni color to greet the guests, dreamy music emitted from the hall of marble and wood. In the upstairs suite curtains hanging it polished up Price per night to $ 300. (more…)
Five of 15 economists in the top 500 Iraqi Arab figure for 2012
08/06/2012
BAGHDAD / JD / .. issued by Arabian Business list included the top 500 personal Arabic for 2012 issued by the Saudi businessman Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, followed by the UAE, Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, both from the economic figures in the Arab world. (more…)
Zaha Hadid joined H.E. Dr Sinan Al-Shabibi, Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) at a ceremony to sign the agreement between the CBI and Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) for the design stages of the new CBI Headquarters building. The ceremony was hosted at the Victoria & Albert Museum by H.E. Dr Muhielddin Hussein Abdullah, Charges d’Affaires of the Iraqi Embassy.
Zaha Hadid Shortlisted for $1bn Parliament Complex
The Architects’ Journal reports that Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been shortlisted to design the new $1 billion parliament complex in Baghdad.
ZHA senior architect Mohamed Al-Jubori attended a project briefing in Baghdad last month with Iraqi parliament president Osama al-Nujaifi. Hadid already has the contract for the Iraqi Central Bank building. (more…)
Hadid designed BMW headquarters
CBI Press Release - June 9, 2011
The construction of the new Central Bank headquarters in Baghdad represents a major step in the institutional development and modernization of the Central Bank of Iraq.
At the margins of the Tigris River, the building site connects to the ancestral civilizations and the foundations of Iraqi history, opening the prospect of a new chapter of re-emergence.
The Central Bank of Iraq has engaged the Iraqi born architect, the legendary Zaha Hadid. Her team includes some of the internationally well known practices including DEGW, Davis Langdon, Adam Kara Taylor, and Max Fordham.
The team, led by Zaha Hadid Architects has already produced the initial study setting out the clients requirements and site utilization.
