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Driven by design excellence, Shaun Killa is an award-winning architect with international experience spanning over 27 years. He focuses his design philosophy on innovative low carbon sustainable buildings and challenges architectural norms to create expressive and timeless forms, which has led him to design numerous highly recognizable projects including Almas Tower, Dubai Opera House, and Bahrain World Trade Centre – one of the first large-scale integrations of wind turbines on a building. In his early career he has won multiple global awards including ENR News Maker Award, New York, the Global Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction for the Lighthouse Tower, and CTBUH Best Tall Building in the Middle East Award for Bahrain World Trade Centre. Killa Design was established in Dubai in 2015, and Shaun has worked on signature projects, including the award-winning designs for the Museum of the Future, the Address Beach Resort, W hotel Namaste, Vida Dubai Marina & Yacht Club, a 500-bed luxury Beach Resort on Jumeirah Beach, Sheybarah Island, Aykon Twin Towers, and the Office of the Future.

Killa is also a keynote speaker at multiple global conferences, inspiring architects, and developers to question the status quo and focus on sustainable buildings and masterplans to continue to improve the urban habitat, the people that live within them and aggressively reduce carbon emissions from the built environment.

Driven by design excellence, Shaun Killa is an award-winning architect with international experience spanning over 27 years. He focuses his design philosophy on innovative low carbon sustainable buildings and challenges architectural norms to create expressive and timeless forms, which has led him to design numerous highly recognizable projects including Almas Tower, Dubai Opera House, and Bahrain World Trade Centre – one of the first large-scale integrations of wind turbines on a building. In his early career he has won multiple global awards including ENR News Maker Award, New York, the Global Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction for the Lighthouse Tower, and CTBUH Best Tall Building in the Middle East Award for Bahrain World Trade Centre. Killa Design was established in Dubai in 2015, and Shaun has worked on signature projects, including the award-winning designs for the Museum of the…

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