Mustafa Chehabeddine AL

Principal

Mustafa has designed internationally significant projects, including supertall towers, airport terminals, and urban districts. Managing multi-disciplinary teams across KPF’s global offices and collaborating with industry-leading consultants, his projects have been widely recognized for their monumental spaces, cultural sensitivity, and technical innovation.

Driving Architectural Innovation

Mustafa’s designs are characterized by dramatic scales and curvilinear forms that blur the boundaries between inside and outside space. He is acknowledged as an industry leader in the adoption of new technologies, championing the use of computational design to deliver complex geometries and spatial magnitude while optimizing efficiency of form for buildability and cost. The design team for Zayed International Airport pioneered the use of parametric design to construct an award-winning terminal. Mustafa’s teams have developed solutions that enable efficiency during the iterative design and construction of complex building envelopes such as Ziraat Bank Headquarters and Beijing Century City.

Zayed International Airport, Terminal A

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Ziraat Bank Headquarters

Istanbul, Türkiye

Ziraat Bank Headquarters

Istanbul, Türkiye

Designing the Cities of Tomorrow

Mustafa’s work in rapidly urbanizing countries in Asia and the Middle East addresses complex city-making challenges, such as accommodating transportation infrastructure, anticipating future changes, and defining the character of neighborhoods. In Kuala Lumpur, the KLCC Cultural Hub—a major new cultural and retail center—was designed with future densification in mind. The structure is engineered to support the construction of a supertall tower above it at a later date, while ensuring the podium remains operational throughout. Shenzhen Centre, a mixed-use, transit-oriented development in Shenzhen, was envisioned to establish a unified core for the new city district.

KLCC Cultural Hub

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Shenzhen Center

Shenzhen, China

KIPCO Tower

Kuwait City, Kuwait

Industry Leadership

Mustafa is a frequent speaker for organizations and conferences including Advanced Building Skins, CTBUH, MIPIM, and the MSc in Sustainable Urban Development, run in partnership by The King’s Foundation and the University of Oxford. He is fluent in English, French, and Arabic. As a leader at KPF, Mustafa fosters debate and dialogue around the design process, drawing on the global diversity of the firm’s employees and portfolio to craft architecture that creates a deep connection to place and elevates the wider neighborhood.