Sumayya Vally Renovates Heritage Building in Central London as New Arts and Cultural Center
Ibraaz center for art, culture and ideas at 93 Mortimer Street, London. Image courtesy of Ibraaz. Image © Ben Westoby - Fine Art Documentation
October will see the opening of Ibraaz, a new cultural space reimagined by Architect-in-Residence Sumayya Vally in central London. The initiative is led by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation and aims to highlight art, culture, and ideas from the Global Majority: communities of African, Asian, Indigenous, and Latin American heritage that together represent most of the world's population. The project seeks to bridge local and global conversations by creating a "world of many worlds" within a single venue: a six-floor, 10,000-square-foot building that has undergone multiple transformations, from synagogue to residence, club, and now cultural center.
