The truth is, I’m a nerve racking designer to work with. While Fathi, Mark and the rest of the team at Cosmic anxiously awaited design sketches, I was instead asking lots of annoying questions, of myself, and of the client. What are they really going to use this space for, and is anyone really going to use it? What do you want the visitor to see (and feel) first, last and along the way? What exactly does modern Arabic-inspired architecture look like? It helps to study the traditional forms and masterpieces, old and new, to really internalize the what and why of an architectural language.