Tall and Green: Typology for a Sustainable Urban Future

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Alf Seeling

Principal, Woods Bagot

Alf completed his architecture studies at Curtain University in Perth Western Australia in 1985 and then travelled through Europe while living and working as an architect in his native Austria. His early work was with noted architects from the Grazer Schule movement Eilfired Huth and Ernst Giselbrecht on mostly institutional and residential developments.

Alf then worked as an associate with Foster and Partners for some 10 years based in London and Tokyo, becoming involved in Century Tower, Tokyo; the Jiu Shi headquarters in Shanghai, and the 888m Millenium Tower in Shanghai.

In 1996 Alf returned to Australia to start a family and build his own home and in 2000 joined Woods Bagot in Perth as a design director. Among the variety of projects that the Perth Studio undertook Alf designed the Ambassador Apartment and the Futuris Towers. Alf also led several winning international design competitions from the Perth studio including the Al Ain University in the UAE. The Perth studio of Woods Bagot was becoming increasingly active in the Middle East and after two years of traveling to Dubai on a regular basis took up a permanent role in the region as the regional design director.

Although active in the Middle East region since 1989, the Woods Bagot studio started in earnest in 2003 with just three staff and in four years Alf has contributed to its growth to some 170 multi disciplined professionals working across the region with studios in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Kuwait.
The wealth of development in the region has allowed Alf to masterplan projects such as Al Barari, Al Kaheel, Dubai Maritime City, Oqyana on the World Islands, Durrat Al Bahrain and the Qatar Science and Technology Park.
Some of the high rise developments that he has been involved with include the Burj Dubai Residences, Bin Sulloom Tower, Park Plaza, Index Tower (in collaboration with Foster and Partners) and a yet to be announced super high rise tower which is destined to become one of the worlds tallest.