Landscape Middle East - January 2022

En este número

Welcome to the first issue of the year! Here’s to a prosperous year ahead for us all, filled with good health! Our January issue kick starts the year with a nostalgic project in Abu Dhabi— the Qasr al Hosn Fort. It’s the capital’s oldest and most cherished building, which is why it’s being revitalised so it can retain its title as Abu Dhabi’s cultural heart. In addition to preserving the existing site, the project will see a new 140.000 sqm cultural park-scape, signifying “a new type of locally rooted urban landscape”. For more details read our cover story on page 14. Meanwhile, we can’t totally blank out the year that’s just gone…the dreaded C word is still prevalent, and lots of people around the world and indeed within our own industry, are struggling but we prefer to focus on the positive! And that’s exactly what Kamel O. Mahadin, founder of the Jordanian based MK Associates, an architecture and landscape architecture firm. Read page 22 for a peek at his new family retreat complete with an olive grove. We also have projects in Russia and Egypt, as well as an interview with Spanish Landscape architect, Carlos Garcia Puente.