Classic streetscape planting to compliment and define the One Central Office developoment

One Central Offices — Urban Workplace Streetscape, Dubai

Location:
Dubai, UAE
Client:
DWTC
Lead Consultant:
Hopkins Architects

Challenge

Integrate sensitive landscape interventions into a high-profile office development streetscape to support urban character and workplace amenity.

Our Role

Place Dynamix delivered the landscape design for the following:

1. Components of the streetscape, enhancing plant palette, spatial quality, and the interface between building and public space.

2. Rooftop terraces for office users, focusing on formal arrangement of space with flexibility of use.

Key Moves

  • Maximise tree shading and scale-appropriate planting to support pedestrian circulation
  • Landscaped edges to define public and semi-public realms
  • Provide flexible outdoor rooftop terraces to optimise user experience
  • Coordination with architecture to reinforce identity

Impact

The project strengthens streetscape quality in a mixed-use commercial context, adding depth to urban experience while supporting workplace and visitor comfort.

6 years on and the trees have well established canopies that give good shade and vertical greening to the office district.