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POWER LIST | COVER STORY<br />
MIKE LEWIS<br />
MIDDLE EAST DIRECTOR<br />
BENOY<br />
STEVE NILLES<br />
PARTNER IN CHARGE<br />
GP<br />
Lewis is Middle East director of<br />
Benoy, a firm famous in the region<br />
for designing the enormous Ferrari<br />
World Abu Dhabi. The Ferrarithemed<br />
project on Yas Island won<br />
Best Hospitality and Leisure Project<br />
at the MEA Awards 2011. It contains<br />
a 200,000m 2 roof, modelled on the<br />
side profile of a Ferrari GT, making<br />
it the largest indoor amusement park<br />
in the world.<br />
STEVEN HOLL<br />
FOUNDER<br />
STEVEN HOLL<br />
The American architect and<br />
painter worked with Solidere<br />
to develop Beirut’s Marina<br />
and Town Quay, which<br />
extends the city’s existing<br />
Corniche in a 20,500m 2 development on<br />
the Lebanese capital’s waterfront. So far,<br />
the Beirut project is the only Middle East<br />
work by the 64-year-old architect, who’s<br />
other famous work ranges across Europe,<br />
China and the US.<br />
Steve Nilles is the partner in charge of GP’s Abu Dhabi office. In 2012, he was<br />
elected to the distinguished College of Fellows of the American Institute of<br />
Architects. Nilles switched to Abu Dhabi to lead the huge Sowwah Square<br />
project for client Mubadala, and set up the design firm’s office within the<br />
scheme. GP is also working on a tower for Al Hilal Bank, close to the site of<br />
Sowwah Square.<br />
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