He is the best known of a cohort of African architects whose ideas are at the profession’s cutting edge. In particular, they ...

Libya’s groundbreaking Great Man-Made River Project stands as a testament to human ingenuity in one of the driest, most ...

A look at Libya’s Great Man-Made River project, an ambitious engineering feat that brought vast underground water supplies across the Sahara to support cities and agriculture.

“When there is no water, nothing green, the sand becomes very strong, a very fast enemy,” says Sbai. “It takes a lot of land.” The desert is pressing in from every direction. According to ...