Firas Hnoosh

Individuals, Principal, Design Director of Architecture | Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

Firas Hnoosh has 20 years of professional design experience. Before joining Perkins+Will, Firas has led a design studio at the London office of the renowned architectural design firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). He moved to the UAE in 2013 as design director for the Abu Dhabi practice of the international architecture firm Gensler. Firas advocates and promotes a design approach to create holistic architecture by designing buildings as response to their context in its multiple facets; urban, social, cultural and environmental. His approach aims to create spaces and buildings that are inclusive, of-their-place and -time and expressive of their brief and client aspirations. Firas promotes a collaborative and inclusive process in the studio where all designers have a voice and all ideas are considered. Firas’ built works include The Lexicon Tower in Central London, Manhattan Loft Gardens in…

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Firas Hnoosh

CTBUH Roles

Annual Conference, Presenter (Middle East 2018)