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    Hafez Orabie

    Hafez is a Senior Landscape Architect with over five years’ diverse experience across various projects spanning the MENA region, particularly KSA. Known for his creativity, ambition, and dynamic approach, Hafez’s journey as a Senior Landscape Architect is enriched by his foundation as an architect, bringing a unique blend of creativity, precision, and holistic understanding to his work. His experience in landscape architecture has been marked by collaboration on prestigious mega projects throughout the MENA region, where he’s contributed to shaping iconic spaces that resonate with cultural significance and architectural excellence.  Hafez continuously looks to incorporate the latest sustainability practices within his projects and to help drive sustainability initiatives within the Cracknell team. 

    Draginja Nikolic

    Draginja is a Senior Landscape Architect with 13 years’ experience across the MENA region, Asia and Europe. A key design team member, she has wide-ranging experience covering many sectors and scales. With a passion for sites with heritage significance, she is an advocate for minimal design intervention to allow users to take centre-stage and tell the story. Taking cues from how people organically use an exterior space, she looks to embody culture and local vernacular in all her projects.

    Leynard Vista

    Leynard is a Senior Landscape Architect with 18 years’ experience in the landscape industry across the Middle East, the United States and Asia. He plays an important role in the design and construction phases and is deeply committed to prioritising human experience and sustainability within his landscape design work. His knowledge of building processes and attention to detail are key to delivering project excellence while maintaining the integrity of the concept design.

    Swati Vacchani

    Swati has 10 years’ experience in landscape architecture in the Middle East and India. She is passionate about creating functional, sustainable and aesthetically pleasing outdoor spaces. Her architectural background helps her to seamlessly integrate landscape design with existing structures/architecture, ensuring a holistic and cohesive design approach.
     
    Managing complex projects from concept to completion, she understands the importance of balancing design principles, environmental considerations, and client requirements to deliver outstanding results. As part of the design team, she manages day to day co-ordination between multidisciplinary internal and external teams and stakeholders to deliver each project successfully.

    Garry Vic Samiley

    Garry is a Senior Landscape Architect with 18 years’ experience, marked by a rich tapestry of residential, commercial, and institutional landscape projects. With a deep-rooted passion for crafting harmonious outdoor environments, he has contributed to shaping the landscapes of South East Asia and the Middle East. He has a nuanced understanding of the cultural and environmental contexts that shape these regions, and this global perspective has enabled him to infuse a rich and innovative blend of local traditions and contemporary design trends, resulting in landscapes that resonate deeply with the people who inhabit them.

    Dexter Nuval

    Dexter is a versatile Senior Landscape Architect with over 17 years’ experience in Architecture, Interior Design, and Landscape Design. He has worked on numerous landscape projects throughout Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and China. He is deeply committed to designing spaces that embody the principles of inclusivity, diversity, creativity, and sustainability whilst maintaining efficient functionality. Seeking out new environmentally-harmonious solutions, he looks to design landscapes that make a long-term positive impact on both people and the natural world.

    Matthew Lucio

    Matthew is a Senior Landscape Architect with 18 years’ experience in Asia and internationally. His background in architecture and construction spurred his passion for design and planning which opened opportunities to work in the field of landscape architecture. Revelling in the opportunity to reshape communities and catalyse positive lifestyle impact through well designed spaces, he continues to hone his creativity as he contributes to the design of diverse and sustainable liveable cities.

    Eleanor Johnson

    Ellie has 12 years’ experience as a design professional in Europe and the Middle East. As a Senior Landscape Architect, she is involved in all stages of design from Concept to Issue for Construction, developing design proposals and coordinating between disciplines to achieve timely project submissions.
     
    Ellie is passionate about the finer details and strives to achieve well thought out construction detailing with consideration to choices of materials that work with both the landscape context and built architecture. This applies particularly to projects in the cultural heritage sector.
     
    Working within World Heritage Sites and other sensitive zones, particularly in Saudi Arabia, has allowed her to develop engaging interpretation, restoring and expressing local vernacular to elevate the sense of place. Looking to tell the landscape story through place-making, Ellie helps to protect culturally important sites for the future.

    Adrian Guzman

    Adrian is a multi-skilled Senior Landscape Architect with a background in architecture, landscape, and urban design. With 16 years’ experience, he has undertaken numerous innovative, sustainable, and people-centric projects across Africa, Asia, MENA and North America. His designs are characterised by a strong focus on nature and the integration of green spaces to promote harmony between urban developments and the environment. He believes in a holistic approach to design, blending creativity with practicality, and considers environmental sustainability a core principle in every project he undertakes. He firmly believes that a project should not only be visually striking but also centered around the well-being of the people who inhabit the spaces.

    Matthew Gimena

    Matthew Gimena is a Senior Landscape Architect with over 19 years’ experience in design, construction and project management; 17 years have been spent in the field of landscape architecture in the Asia-Pacific region while he also has experience in interior design and is a registered Architect. From small landscape schemes to more complex spaces and larger developments, Matthew is responsible for balancing client needs with his design role by defining the creative, inspirational, and functional parameters by which a landscape design will be successful.

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