The comprehensive masterplan for the Qasr al Hosn site in Abu Dhabi has been awarded this year’s WAN Gold Award in the category ‘Mixed Use’.
The Qasr al Hosn Fort is Abu Dhabi’s oldest building and the city’s cultural heart. The fort is located on a 400 x 400 metre site, which also comprises the city’s Cultural Foundation. Today the site is transformed into a vivid public park, which enhances the site’s historic buildings as important landmarks in the city.
Simultaneously, the project adds several new functions to the Al Hosn site making it an asset to the entire city of Abu Dhabi – restaurants, facilities for cultural activities, a breathtaking Musallah prayer hall, and an impressive open landscape with water elements and shady pocket spaces for breaks in the Middle Eastern sun.
The terrain is a sand flat with minimalist indigenous planting to reflect the topography in which the Qasr al Hosn was initiated c.1760. The landscape unifies Abu Dhabi’s Modern and Traditional heritage while providing a sense of place and time.
SLA delivered extensive indigenous planting design and expertise to the project. The masterplan, buildings and landscape is designed by CEBRA.
15.09.2023
Downsview Framework Plan wins the Toronto Urban Design Award!
We’re happy to share that our resilient masterplan for North Toronto’s new Downsview district has won the prestigious Toronto Urban Design Award!
17.07.2023
SLA Appointed Landscape Masterplanner for new £1.7bn innovation district – ID Manchester
We are happy to announce that SLA has been chosen as the Public Realm Masterplanner and Landscape Architect for a new city centre innovation district, ID Manchester, which sets out to transform the area into a new green and bustling mixed-use neighborhood, founded on industrial heritage.
23.06.2023
Khalifa City Community Parks win 2023 Monocle Design Award
We are proud to share that our six Community Parks in the Khalifa City neighborhood of Abu Dhabi, have won the prestigious 2023 Monocle Design Award in the category Best Urban Park.
