Seven years after the Pearling Path received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Urban Repair returns to Muharraq, Bahrain, where a visionary process of urban regeneration, initiated and championed by H.E. Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, has unfolded around the UNESCO World Heritage site Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy, inscribed in 2012. Celebrated by UNESCO as an “outstanding example of traditional utilization of the sea’s resources and human interaction with the environment,” the site has become a catalyst for rethinking heritage, public space, and urban life in the historic city.
Source: Urban Repair: Architecture of Rehabilitation