Martin

Based in Bahrain Martin is a Czech chartered architect with 14 years of experience in the interior, architectural and urban design as well as with extensive construction site supervision experience. Martin has proven his design talent within multi-national professional design teams in Europe and China and has exercised his technical, planning and organizational skills within the construction sites of the Middle East.

In Europe and China, whilst participating on various fast-track projects, Martin designed villas, hotels, office buildings as well as urban master plans. He was the project architect of the Baroque Palace conversion to the Kempinski hotel in Prague, he developed the land permit documentation for the 52 storey Buckingham residential tower in Macau and participated as a project architect of the 10th Anniversary McDonald’s restaurant in Macau, which was successfully completed and published in architectural magazines.

Relocating to the Middle East in 2006 and joining the General Contractor’s side of the business enabled Martin to build his full time site-based site supervision experience. In 2006 he was assigned as a site-in-charge to supervise the construction of a 9 storey residential building in Amwaj Islands, Bahrain. From 2007 till 2010, throughout the complete project life cycle, Martin has served as a Technical Officer for the construction of 337 luxury villas in Petals 1, 2 & 3 of the iconic landmark Durrat al Bahrain Resort project.

In 2010 Martin joined the Woods Bagot site office team supervising the completion of the Kempinksi Grand and Ixir Hotel fit-out project in Manama, Bahrain. At present Martin serves as a Senior Architect on the iconic 690,940 m2 Qatar Petroleum HQ fit-out project in Doha, Qatar. Among his main responsibilities falls design coordination among the international design studios, the project management team, the sub-consultants, the Client and the Main Contractor.