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Dubai City Tour 1

Dubai City Tour 1

Sheikh Zayed Road

Sheikh Zayed Road

Delegates will be assigned to either Group A or Group B; the two groups will alternate for the Day 1 and Day 2 Tours

When: Thursday 11 November 2021 @ 06:30 (Eastern US Time)/ @ 15:30 (Dubai time)

Speaker

Andre C. Meyerhans, Partner, Fischer & Meyerhans Architects

CES: tbc

Event Itinerary

Al Serkal - Art Hub

Dubai World Trade Center - Skyscraper Battle: Where modern Dubai started

Emirates Towers, Museum of the Future, DIFC - Architecture illustrating vision and power

Downtown Dubai - Learning from Disney

City Walk / Box Park - Back to Human Scale: Filling Gaps

Burj Al Arab - Architecture as Marketing Tool

Dubai Marina/Jumeirah Beach Residence, Dubai Harbor - Building a new city, Exploring Freehold, Stressing Infrastructure

Blue Waters / Ain Dubai - Pedestrian Bridge, Expanding Reclamation

Palm Jumeirah - Urban Planning as Marketing tool

Dubai Creek Harbor - Looking into the Future

Speaker Bio

Andre C. Meyerhans, Partner, Fischer & Meyerhans Architects

André C. Meyerhans has been recognized as one of the forty most influential architects of the region in by the Middle East Architects Magazine and Architectural Digest.

Before he started his own architectural practice, he worked with Santiago Calatrava, created brand architecture for Alfred Dunhill, Cartier, Hugo Boss as well as Christian LaCroix, established the architectural department for an international engineering company and developed real estate for various sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East.

André holds a Masters in Architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) and an MBA from London Business School.