In our first episode of 2022, Cityscape Intelligence’s Teneshia Naidoo sits down with Hamza Betraoui Managing Director at Land Sterling and Vinodh Mahadevan, Head of Land Sterling’s Strategic Consulting and Valuation Advisory to discuss a few game changing real estate trends expected to headline the GCC region in 2022.

From Saudi Arabia’s giga-project plans, Expo’s impact on the UAE’s property sector, and the impact of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, Hamza Betraoui Managing Director at Land Sterling and Vinodh Mahadevan, Head of Land Sterling’s Strategic Consulting and Valuation Advisory, reveal some of the region’s trending real estate topics.

We speak to Jason Burnside, Partner at Godwin Austen Johnson, about the opportunities and challenges of designing during a pandemic for architects.

Jason Burnside shares some thought-provoking insights on how the architecture profession has responded to a year of disruption, delves into the effect of the pandemic when designing schools, and finally reveals how architects can bridge the gap between creativity, collaboration and working remotely.

Will the pandemic have a lasting impact on the way architects and urban planners design future cities? Cityscape Intelligence explores how the pandemic has presented the industry with real opportunities to reimagine cities.

Architects and urban planners have been optimistic about the future and have looked at the pandemic as a means of improving the way cities are designed and run. In our latest episode, we talk to Kourosh Salehi, Design Director at architecture firm, LWK+PARTNERS, to understand how urban planners and architects will have to adapt and what adjustments will endure beyond the end of the pandemic.