Kourosh SALEHI

GLOBAL DESIGN PRINCIPLE Kourosh Salehi is a British architect, Urbanist and educator with over 25 years international experience in the UK, Asia and the Middle East. He has led the design process for a number of urban skylines in cities like London, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Doha, as well Mecca and Riyadh. He is a prominent advocate of ‘Contextual Metabolism’ – the idea that the environmental, cultural and urban context of cities define their wellbeing and aid urban ecologies. The philosophy which has been successfully adopted by the latest tower design for the DIFC innovation hub, amongst others.