16/08/2026
Some projects bring different chapters of your life into one place. This is one of mine.
Dubai taught me architecture.
The Grand Egyptian Museum took me closer to culture and visitor experience.
Working with UNESCO and Google Arts & Culture widened that conversation.
And studying heritage at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne made me look differently at the places we have stopped noticing.
Somewhere along that journey came Salvago Cotton Gin.
An overlooked piece of Egypt’s industrial heritage that became a very personal exploration of how architecture can give an existing place another life… without erasing the life it already had.
So seeing Salvago, designed through Studio KAD, shortlisted for Best Sustainable / Regenerative Design Concept at the Commercial Interior Design Awards 2026: MENA means rather more to me than another shortlist.
Perhaps the buildings we overlook are sometimes the ones with the most interesting futures.