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Residential – 1

September 2, 2025

Residential living is about harmonising comfort and luxury, the familiar and the bespoke...

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Hospitality – 2

August 25, 2025

Do you know that feeling when you walk into a place and suddenly everything “fits”, is natural and comfortable? As if you’ve just stepped over the threshold at home?

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What constitutes Good Design?

August 24, 2025

A sold-out real estate project must have got at least some of the core elements right and is therefore “good”, but is it well-designed? What constitutes Good Design?

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Retail – 2

Once, retail was more than merely transactional. It set the rhythm of everyday life...

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What Defines the Strength of a Space?

August 17, 2025

It seems that the answer is not monumentality or dominance, but rather in establishing a subtle harmony between the building and its surroundings...

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Matter Meets Memory

August 10, 2025

Contemporary architecture increasingly becomes a space where the past meets the future, and matter meets memory. In parts of the Middle East, where culture and history are often overshadowed by contemporary challenges, architecture plays the role of a carrier of change...

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Retail – 1

Retail developments, where possible, should be designed as a “destination”. The destination element adds value and elevates the experience...

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Architectural Adventures in old Muharraq: Bayt Sheikh Isa bin Ali

(بيت الشيخ عيسى بن علي)

The House of Sheikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa in old Muharraq was both his residence and the seat of his government...

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Hospitality – 1

Hospitality developments should almost always be designed as a destination. On entering you know you have “arrived”, feel comfortable, are at home...

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Sustainable or Not Sustainable?

Many current projects are lauded as being “sustainable”. Is it a credential which is bestowed too lightly? A new single-use retail development which isn’t connected to its neighbours, or to complimentary land uses in a meaningful way, is not sustainable...

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The Line

Children used to draw cities filled with buildings, trees, and cars. Today, they can draw a single straight line - and that might be a more accurate vision of the future. The Line is less an urban planning project and more a civilisational experiment...

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Developing the nicholas Brand

We wanted to develop a logo that reflects our heritage, lineage and values. We talked for hours. We brainstormed, sketched and evaluated options. Everything was “almost good” – but almost isn’t enough when it comes to identity...

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