Tim Martin

Tim has an established set of technical and business skills with experience throughout Asia, Europe, Australia, North America, Africa, the Middle East and the U.S., Tim’s international expertise is wide-ranging in discipline, complexity, sector, and size.
Tim is a designer, mentor, and industry leader. He focuses on oversight of multi-disciplinary design projects across the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. With almost 100 staff members, six studios and three offices within the GCC, Tim’s unique set of skills enables him to develop, lead and drive a client’s strategic business goals through the power of integrated design.

Harnessing his portfolio of projects and clients across the globe, Tim’s goal is to deliver in a tailored way and with a personal touch. He brings his team and clients a unique combination of experience and expertise, believing in the power of design to positively impact the lives of the individual. Collaborating at the outset and throughout the process is something Tim enforces to ensure the resulting design is a synthesis of multiple perspectives.

A distinct fusion of cultures between ethnic design and Western influences, has led to magnificent projects that respect locality and serve as evidence of the desire and determination of these countries to participate in the globalization of the 21st century.

In his role at Gensler, Tim was behind the highest performing region throughout the pandemic. Staff has tripled since his appointment as well as driving the opening of offices in an additional two cities. Tim has created an international community of designers and architects, acting as an extension of one global office, with one goal – to design the most sustainable, human-centric, and advanced environments in the fields of architecture and interior design in the third decade of the 21st century.