Msheireb Downtown Doha is the world’s first sustainable downtown regeneration project, which is reviving the old commercial district of Doha.
Phase 1 of the project involved ACC redeveloping four Heritage Buildings, the Jumaa Mosque and the Eid Prayer Ground as well as landscaping of the Diwan Amiri Quarter.
The four heritage buildings have been restored and turned into museums, including a traditional adobe courtyard house known as the Mohammed bin Jassim House – originally the house of the son of the founder of modern Qatar.
Designed by Foster & Partners, the campus includes three residential buildings with 222 1-bedroom apartments: four additional lab buildings and an iconic multi-level, multi-use sports hall/auditorium with a pool and gym facilities.
The MASDAR development is the physical component of the MASDAR initiative, spreading over approximately 6 square kilometres of land that was granted by the Government of Abu Dhabi.
The Masdar Institute 1B project involved the construction of the campus to house the Institute’s graduate program. The program is run in conjunction with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the US and hopes to be the cornerstone forum for research, business and creativity in renewable technology.
The Masdar Institute received worldwide recognition for the project’s unique design and sustainability achievements which are the result of solar studies, wind tunnel testing, and energy simulation. The campus and its associated buildings are designed to reduce energy by optimising building form and orientation and carefully configuring streets and urban spaces.
Park Place is a mixed-use residential and office tower, situated on Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai.
The building has 60 floors of which the lower 18 floors are reserved for offices and the remaining 42 are for residents. The building was fitted with a special climate façade to limit the costs of energy for cooling the building.
The project also included the construction of a multi-storey car park which is connected to the tower by a 46m-long steel structure bridge.