Our vision is to build inclusive, human-centric urban environments that elevate our architectural solutions, delivering future value to the communities that occupy and engage with our buildings. Our urban designers shape the structure and character of the neighbourhoods we create, often working in continuation with our sister company ERA-co who provide large scale city-shaping and masterplanning capability.

James Miles

Associate Principal,

Global Sector Leader – Cities and Places

“Urban design operates across many scales. Strategic urban plans, including those developed by the ERA-co team, come to life at the human scale, the streets and public spaces where daily life unfolds. Our Cities and Places team is focused on creating vibrant, diverse and deeply contextual environments that shape neighbourhoods and enrich the way communities experience place.”

James Miles

Paolo Testolini
Director, Urban Design and Masterplanning
ERA-co
ERA-co

“The next generation of masterplanning is a catalyst for societal transformation, shifting to living, data-informed models that test new paradigms entirely.”

Paolo Testolini

The modern interpretations of Venice’s long history of human ingenuity, will and wealth lie across the Atlantic Ocean in the Middle East, where cities like Dubai, Qatar and Riyadh push entrepreneurial thinking to incredible heights.

Over the past year and a half, the Western world has debated the future of cities as major central business districts hollowed out in New York, Los Angeles and London leaving swaths of office towers, malls, and restaurants deserted.

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