A Good Tenant Cannot Fix a Bad Mall Experience
Recently, I passed by B1Mall again and noticed that one of the shops I really liked had closed. Grandiose. I used to visit it often. It had many qualities you would expect from a strong anchor tenant – good food, reasonable prices, frequent promotions, and a wide variety of products. But I also knew the […]
Why Walking Might Be the Most Powerful Idea We Forgot — And How It Can Change Dubai
Have you ever heard of a walking meeting?At first, it sounds too simple to be meaningful — just walk and talk. But Steve Jobs didn’t think so. He held his most important conversations on long walks, not in boardrooms.Years later, Stanford researchers discovered why: Walking boosts creative thinking by nearly 60%. It wakes up the […]
Rethinking Traffic and Walkability – Masari Walk
I’ve experienced traffic in many cities.But one moment still stays with me. Mumbai. 2007.I was there for the airport project. And the traffic—it wasn’t just busy.It was overwhelming. Not the kind you forget.The kind that stays with you. Even today, nothing has really changed.Most major cities still struggle with the same issue. Dubai is no […]
World Trade Centre to Pearl – Ferry : Masari Walk
Being an architect, I feel Dubai’s pulse like no one else—those jammed streets near Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) screamed for a fix during the 2024 expos, a cry that still lingers in my mind. Weekdays, reports say drivers lose 35 hours a year to Sheikh Zayed Road, with 12-minute delays. But during expos like […]
Masari Walk — A Path Shaped by Context
Dubai—a city of ambition, vision, and relentless transformation. But beyond the speed and spectacle, I found myself asking:Where does its soul live? Design Beyond Form isn’t just a philosophy—it’s how I design.It’s about paying attention to context, to culture, to how people truly live and feel.And when you design with that mindset, something unexpected happens:You […]
The Cost of Flammable Façades
I watched the fire climb the façade—flames shooting upward and even downward as burning debris fell, setting off new fires on the floors below. It wasn’t random. Fires like this follow a path. That path is built into the materials themselves. As architects, we know that when fire behaves like this, it’s usually because the […]