Awards

  • “Arab Architect Award” for lifetime achievements from the Arab Towns Organization Award Foundation, in its 9th Cycle, received in Doha, Qatar on 27 May 2008.
  • RIBA Napper Urban Design Prize, from the Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA, 1984.
  • Haywood Prize for "The Architectural Student of the year 1984," Manchester, United Kingdom.
  • “Commercial Project of the Year 2017” Award from “The Middle East Architect” magazine, for the Heart of Sharjah Head Office Building, Sharjah, UAE.
  • "Architectural Designer of the Year 2008 Award" from Retail City Dubai for Al-Manshar Shopping Center, Kuwait (Consultant Firm: Dar al-Omran).
  • "Islamic Architecture Award" for the Fahaheel Waterfront Project, Al-Kout, Kuwait, received in Dubai in October 2007. Award was organized by the Architectural Review Magazine together with the Dubai Cityscape Convention (Consultant Firm: Dar Al-Omran).
  • "Architectural Designer of the Year 2007 Award" from Retail City Dubai for Madinat Al-Fahaheel Project, Kuwait (Consultant Firm: Dar Al-Omran).
  • Scholarship award from the Agha Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1991-1993).
  • Awarded a travel grant from the “Friends of Morocco,” U.S.A., to visit and document traditional architecture in Morocco, 1992.
  • Awarded 4 travel grants in 1992 from the Agha Khan Program for Islamic Architecture: to study the formal transformation of the city of Serfrou Morocco; to document the modern part of Fez, Morocco; to study Islamic architecture in the southern region of Spain (Andalusia) including the cities of Granada, Cordoba, Seville, and Ronda; and to participate in a design workshop and presentation in Lahore, Pakistan.
  • "General Merit Award" from Swindon Technical College, Wilts. England, 1978.