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Western Market Essay

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Sharjah Central Market ( Blue Souk )

The United Arab Emirates gained its independence from the British control in 1971. Since then, and during the postcolonial era, UAE attempted to define its own architecture that highlights UAE’s national identity and focuses on the country’s heritage. However, According to ‘Contemporary Architecture in the Arab States’ book by Udo Kultermann, “Contemporary architecture - in the UAE - is strongly determined by commercial buildings, and the domination of foreign architects is clearly visible”. So, there were so many intentions in the United Arab Emirates to design, with the help of foreign architects, many commercial buildings such as traditional markets in different locations, and these designs …show more content…

So, a market is a place where people gather and interactions happen between the seller of goods and the buyer. In the middle east traditions, the market is called souk or sometimes a bazaar, and it is usually an open-air marketplace housed in narrow vernacular streets that are divided into sections of specific product types, and named after these products, for example, the gold souk (Picture_01). On the other hand, Western markets are also an open-air marketplace that consists of a square or a rectangular area located in the center of the town next to important buildings such as churches, town halls, hotels, …etc. In addition to that, western markets usually have a permanent medieval market building which is known as “the cloth hall” that contains a trading stalls (Picture_02). Therefore, there is clear similarities and differences between Western and Middle Eastern markets. Both markets have the same concept of open-aired space for people to gather and purchase a different kind of goods, but they differ in the style of architecture that host this kind of function. I think the middle Eastern markets are usually narrow and vernacular with no over ornamentations to represent simplicity and traditions, while the Western markets are larger, wider and next to significant buildings as well as an ornamented market building which is ‘the cloth hall’ to represent maybe power and

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