An internationally celebrated landscape architecture practice
Founded in London in 1989 and headquartered in Beirut, with studios in Dubai and Doha, the practice delivers landscape architecture, urban design and master planning of the highest order — for the civic, institutional, commercial, hospitality and private clients who shape the regions they build in.
We hold landscape and architecture as two modes of a single spatial continuum. Into that continuum we weave metaphor, memory and the layering of history — composing places that feel inevitable, rooted and quietly extraordinary.
We regard landscape and architecture as two modes of the same visual and spatial continuum. Every place we design rises from its own ground — its geography, ecology and history held in the same considered breath.
The vision and ambition of the client sit at the centre of our work. Technical mastery and aesthetic precision are matched by a deep reading of the symbolic life of the built environment — and an uncompromising commitment to landscapes that outlast their moment.
Our work spans new-town developments, flagship resorts, master-planned communities, campuses, civic parks and private estates for the most discerning clients across the Middle East, Europe and the United States.
A Cornell University graduate in Landscape Architecture, Zina refined her craft within London's leading firms before founding her own practice — first shaping celebrated private commissions, then earning the trust of established studios on their most ambitious work.
Drawn to the Middle East's appetite for landscapes of real ambition, she established Beirut as the heart of the practice, anchoring the Dubai and Doha studios. Today she leads a team of landscape architects across all three.
Zina authors the concept behind every design and stewards each project from first idea to final delivery — directing teams, choosing her designers and holding the work to an exacting standard. A repeated winner of design competitions across her career, she has built ZMK/PLD into one of the most respected landscape architecture practices in the world.
United Arab Emirates
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