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Killa Design is an award-winning architectural firm that creates innovative buildings and design solutions that are environmentally sustainable, challenge architectural norms and are bespoke for clients.

Tearing down the typical hierarchy found in corporations, Killa Design became a place that encouraged the expression of ideas and innovation in design, creating design solutions that combine art and engineering. The associates in the office mentor the future leaders by giving each member equal opportunities to lead a project. The office also provides workshops to educate and inspire the client to strive for better urban environments and to help the staff stay up to date with the latest technological advances, trends and challenges for cities, buildings and urbanscape.

About Killa Design

Passionate About Design.

As a firm, Killa Design is dedicated to creating innovative buildings that are timeless, environmentally sustainable, and contextually inspired.

We specialise in mixed-use, high rise, hospitality, office, and residential projects. We also have significant experience in retail, theatre, museum, urban design, and master planning projects.

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Our Team

Creative. Experienced. Inspired.

Under the leadership of co-founder and architect Shaun Killa, who has 25-years of architecture experience, from small-scale offices, to large-scale high-rise buildings and entire masterplans, the Killa design team is an interdisciplinary and passionate team of architects, designers and project managers that work hard to ensure that each project has a sustainable foundation and develops beyond the client’s expectations.

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Our Projects

Changing The Landscape.

Killa Design has been able to secure, design and construct a significant number of projects that have made a tangible difference to the architectural and construction landscape of the Middle East and wider region. Projects such as the Museum of the Future, Office of the Future, The Vida Marina and The Address Beach Resort have pushed the boundaries of design and sought out new and innovative ways of approaching age-old architectural problems.

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Our Services

Transforming a Project Vision into Reality.

While many firms are driven by commercial interests, our primary goal is to support projects that call for unique and innovative solutions, that offer new possibilities for design and that resonate with our core values. These core values are to support sustainability, contextual sensitivity, and timeless design.

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Videos

NEOM: What is Leyja? 1:00

NEOM: Meet the architects of Leyja 1:05

Red Sea Global: Bubbles of the Sea with Killa Design 1:51

The architects of the Museum of the Future speak with the Future of Facades Summit.

Construction Week: Killa Expansion 3:25

Killa Design plans to open two offices in either Australia, China, the UK, or Singapore as the Dubai-based architectural engineering studio expands its international footprint.

Voices of Design featuring Shaun Killa 1:36

Under his guidance, Killa Design has established itself as one of the region’s most pioneering practices

The latest architectural trends from Killa Design 0:51

The architects of the Museum of the Future speak with the Future of Facades Summit.

The Killa Design Movie 1:44

What it’s like working for Killa Design

Vida Hotel & Residence 3:15

The design philosophy of the VIDA Marina hotel in Dubai and how the marina urban context and it’s skyline sculpted the design to become one of the most sort after hotel and apartments in Dubai.

New Architect of the Month: Killa Design’s Damon Wu 0:51

Meet Taiwanese architect Damon Wu, architect at Killa Design in Dubai. He discusses his previous work in Europe and the new ‘made in Dubai’ approach of young architects.