Manhattan studio RUX Design have won a competition to design a mosque for the UAE with their open-air plaza called The Vanishing Mosque.The design features an ablution pool beneath an open-air, triangular, stepped platform for prayer, surrounded by mixed-use buildings. The colonnade arches and brickwork of the surrounding structures will decrease in size towards the space’s apex, deepening the sense of distance looking towards Mecca. Shaded by surrounding bui.......