

Preface
RMJM is one of the World’s largest and most geographically diverse Architecture & Urban Design businesses.
RMJM 2050 is a division of RMJM comprising the best and the brightest minds from around the RMJM global family and focused on working with Governments and Governmental Organisations around the World on the preparation of smart, sustainable, competitive and resilient urban masterplans that are flexible and responsive to the changing needs of a coutries future developments.
Much of the focus of RMJM 2050 has been on China in the first part of the 21st Century where we have delivered multiple urban masterplans for many cities across China. Our focus has turned to Africa with the Continent in the midst of great change in the first part of this Century.
With the World’s youngest population and drastic improvements throughout the Continent in terms of life expectancy which is expected to be on par with more developed parts of the World by 2050, never has it been more important to start to plan for the changes that these demographics will demand. RMJM 2050 is focused on working with Governments and Governmental Organisations across the Continent on preparing 2050 urban materplans that cater for these changing needs.
Each Urban Masterplan adopts a flexible, sustainable and competitive approaches to achieving a country of excellence
It seeks to optimize existing infrastructure investments; rationalise and integrate land use and transport; protect key economic assets and be flexible and responsive to the environmental challenges and constraints to the socio-economic transformations
Each plan identifies the desired urbanisation parameters, urban fabric and form, development staging and scale, in line with each country’s economic growth and sustainability aspirations.
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LONDON
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DUBAI
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HONG KONG
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NEW YORK
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Our Mission
Architecture is a manifestation and expression of our ever-changing world. As such, it must acknowledge and respond to the cultural needs, values and socio-economic developments of the country with which it interacts.
– Peter Morrison, Group CEO, RMJM

RMJM 2050 is a studio comprising the best and brightest minds from around the RMJM Global family focused on preparing smart, sustainable, competitive and resilient urban masterplans that are flexible and responsive to the changing needs of countries’ future developments.
Each study that we undertake includes population growth forecasts and socio-political trends, and is inspired by the pan African vision: “An integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens, representing a dynamic force in the international arena”, and its 2063 plan of how the Continent intends to achieve this vision. These studies could potentially shape the future developments of each country. This insightful analysis can provide Governments and decision-makers with a comprehensive tool to guide their countries’ urban decision-making and development process as they move toward the achievement of the 2063 vison.
Our team of experts
Studio Projects
Madinat Al Soor
Location: Dubai, UAE
Client: Nakheel
Contract Value: Confidential
Scope: Masterplan
Completion year: 2003
Madinat al Soor is a sustainable, modern complex of approximately 22,000 residents. Remaining true to the vibrant culture of Dubai, the master plan of Madinat al Soor promotes an energetic, pedestrian-geared environment.
The organization of the city is particularly given over to the integration of open spaces—walkways, plazas, bridges, gardens, and courtyards—into the urban landscape in an endeavor to maintain the vitality indigenous to traditional Arabic settlements.
The name “Al Soor,” or “The Wall,” originates from the development’s most prominent feature—a large wall element on the western edge of the site. However, the structure is just one of the elements whose influences distinguish Madinat al Soor as a precedent-setting project. While referencing schemes typical of classic Arabic architecture, Madinat al Soor is nevertheless also a frontrunner in modern sustainable technology and masterplanning in the region; the design incorporates a variety of sustainable techniques, with an emphasis on passive solar shading and siting geared toward capturing cooling breezes.
Capital Centre Masterplan ADNEC
Development-Phase 4
Location: Abhu Dhabi, UAE
Client: ADNEC
Contract Value: Confidential
Scope: Masterplan
Completion year: 2008
This 152-hectare concept masterplan for this Eco-Smart City in Langfang is sustainability-oriented. The concept masterplan is defined as a main focus that Langfang is to be the “City of Life” with five major interventions that combine to bring the lives of people and nature together, which are to restore water balance with wetlands and blueways.
Metropol
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Client: Confidential
Contract Value: Confidential
Scope: Masterplan
Completion year: 2010
In 2010, RMJM won the design competition for the iconic Mixed Use Development in the East Atasehir District of Istanbul with a design that encapsulates the characteristics that make the city so unique: its relationship to its landscape, its rich cultural diversity and its idealistic tradition. The development comprises three towers; one residential, one office and one mixed use supertall tower; and boasts high end Boutique retail and a 2 level retail mall. This project expands on RMJM’s current work on the Varyap Meridian area of the site and forms a key element in the development of the wider Atasehir Central Business District & New Financial District.
Gazprom City Masterplan
Location: St Petersburg, Russia
Client: Gazprom
Contract Value: Confidential
Scope: Masterplan
Completion year: 2012
RMJM has been appointed to design the new Gazprom Group headquarters and business centre on a 17-hectare brownfield site at Lakhta, St Petersburg. The 330,000m² complex includes commercial office space as well as retail, leisure and residential developments.
Tony Kettle and his team have spent more than three months revising their original design, originally proposed for the Okhta district of St Petersburg, to create an iconic building and masterplan that will revitalise an area of former industrial land 12kms from the city centre on the coast of the Gulf of Finland.
The tower design is the natural evolution of the RMJM concept previously proposed for the Okhta site, a design inspired entirely by the city of St Petersburg with its baroque architecture and water filled canals, with the changing form of water to ice, from soft organic freeform to angular crystaline geometry.
The design stage of the project will be completed in 2012 and the first phase of construction will be funded by Gazprom Group. Investment for further phases of the project will be shared between the Gazprom Group and private investors. It is hoped that the complex will provide a blueprint for future sustainable design across Russia.
Lang Fang Masterplan
Location: Lang Fang, China
Client: Langfang Aomei Real Estate
Development Co.Ltd
Contract Value: Confidential
Scope: Masterplan
Sited between Beijing and Tian Jing, Lang Fang is a two-phase masterplanning project that challenges the conventional ideas of urban design. The inspiration for the design originates from images of cracked glaciers with the cracks forming the road network and pathways and the glacier pieces forming islands with accommodates an array of uses. Once completed the Lang Fang project will provide new residential communities and a cultural hub that will become the new center of attraction for the CBD.
Dubai International Exhibition
& Convention Centre
Location: Abhu Dhabi, UAE
Client: Dubai Municipality
Contract Value: Confidential
Scope: Masterplan
Completion year: 2003
RMJM were commissioned as lead consultants for the new Dubai International Convention Centre. The development incorporates a multi-use exhibition hall which can cater for seated events with up to 6,500 people. The whole development includes a 14 storey office tower, 7 storey car park, 2 hotels and a public 650m long internal concourse that unifies the whole convention centre and exhibition complex. The facility opened in April 2003 for the IMF World Bank Conference.
Algiers Harbour Masterplan
Location: Algiers, Algeria
Client: Confidential
Contract Value: Confidential
Scope: Masterplan
Completion year: 2009
RMJM’s brief was non-prescriptive in terms of accommodation but the size of the site created a new city district and required a full range of accommodation and supporting functions including transport and infrastructure. Re-establishing the relationship between the city and the sea was a key requirement of the brief as well as re-establishing the location as a vibrant destination.
The site is a large expanse of the waterfront area covering an area of approximately 70ha (this includes reclaimed land within the proposal). It also includes a large harbour area, currently predominantly industrial in nature, overlooked by historical residential buildings.
The brief also called for the refurbishing of some existing elements such as the large extent of arcaded storage volumes running along the length of the site at harbour level as well as reconfiguring some of the existing road layout to deal with existing congestion. The large parking requirements are predominantly dealt with below ground level.
The proposed development is a mixed use scheme comprising residential, retail, office, hotel and cultural buildings sub divided into sub-districts of residential quarter, office quarter, an exhibition centre, a marina, a retail area and a transport hub. Ground/first floor level retail/ café/restaurant also extend throughout much of the development.