Japanese installation Chatai returns to Dubai Design Week with 2 new spaces

TORONTO: Japanese architecture firm Nikken Sekkei and carpentry studio Sobokuya are returning to Dubai Design Week with Chatai 2.0, an expanded version of the structure they first presented last year. From the outset, Chatai has been shaped by Sobokuya’s “understanding of timber and craft alongside our architectural perspective,” resulting in “something neither of us would have created in quite the same way alone,” Fadi Jabri, CEO of Nikken Sekkei Dubai, told Arab News recently. The name Chatai

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