Sites International : Design with Nature

Galala Resort and Promenade, Red Sea

Sites International: Design with Nature

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ites International is an award-winning multi-disciplinary consultancy firm established in 1986 with offices in USA and Egypt providing comprehensive services that include feasibility, planning, and all design stages through to tendering and construction site supervision. The pioneering work of Sites International co-founders, Dr. Maher Stino and Dr. Laila ElMasry-Stino, introduced to the Middle East the philosophy and methodology of creating fully integrated projects, where the built and natural environments blend meaningfully to produce works of functional and visual harmony.

Sites International specializes in Master Planning, Detailed Planning, Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Urban Design, Structural Engineering, Site Engineering, Construction Site Supervision, and Project Management.

The firm’s portfolio of projects includes large mixed-use developments/commercial, public parks and open spaces, residential and new communities, hotels and resorts, educational institutions and campuses, edutainment, and historical and cultural developments.

NEWGIZA- Neighborhood One Park

Dr. Laila Elmasry

Dr. Maher Stino

Among Sites International’s projects are, Mirage City, JW Marriott, American University in Cairo New Campus, New Giza, New Aswan City, and Al-Galala City. The Nubian Museum in Aswan was awarded the prestigious Aga Khan Award in 2001 for landscape architecture. Al-Azhar Park transformed the landscape of Old Cairo. It was the cover story of the American Society of Landscape Architecture's publication magazine and it was featured in a dedicated documentary that aired nationally in the USA. Sites International is currently one of the most prominent consultancy firms specializing in landscape architecture, planning and urban design in North Africa and the Middle East. www.sitesint.com

NEWGIZA- Neighborhood One Lakeside

Sites International prepared the master plan, urban design, and detailed planning for phase I of Al-Galala City, with an area spanning 2000 acres. Galala resort, built on 38 acres, is located on the mountain promenade at an altitude of about 700 meters above sea level.

Sites International designed the resort as a distinctive tourist village built in unison with its asymmetrical surroundings and offering

over 80% of its residents magnificent panoramic views of the Gulf of Suez. The village design is comprehensive from preliminary design, master planning, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering to site supervision. The resort hosts a 210 room & suite hotel, 360 chalets, 52 townhouses, health club, restaurants, swimming pools, children's playground, and sport areas within interconnected network of roads and walkways with direct links to the promenade.

Galala City Cirular Shops

Galala Promenade & Mosque

Spiral Restaurant

Abu Al -Joud Wildlife Park, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

The park is located 22km NW of al-Medina on 45 sq.km. Sites International’s concept design envisions a variety of activities and attractions that harmoniously blend with desert environment to create a uniquely exceptional wildlife park in the Middle East. The park offers camping, botanical gardens, recreation complex, mountain side promenade and an open adventure area for visitors to explore the surrounding plateaus interspersed with valleys and plains of varying heights reaching up to 1000m above sea level. The area's arid wilderness and open landscape provide a scenic showcase for the rich variety of flora, desert-adapted wildlife and the unique ecosystem.

Mivida Boxpark, New Cairo

The Boxpark Mall will be the first of its kind in Egypt and is a novel concept to the Middle East region. Sites International’s scope includes master planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and engineering. The mall is made out of retrofitted shipping containers and built around a central lake. The use of containers in architecture creates a real challenge in design, structure detailing, and MEP requirements.

Sites International’s dynamic design, extracting its inspiration from the containers aesthetics and industrial feel, imagined colorful containers jutting out of roofs, while others are stacked or barely showing skeletal form. Mivida Boxpark design developed an architectural language that pays careful attention to scale, lighting and tenants' preferences.