Architectural Excellence
Our rigour prevails
from conception to completion
Architectural Excellence
Our rigour prevails
from conception to completion
Our rigour prevails
from conception to completion
Our rigour prevails
from conception to completion
Architectural Feasibility: Before committing to your project, we can help guide you through the process, the timeline and estimated budgets. Architectural projects are a commitment to their owner(s). Such commitment is long term and comes with financial ones. We help simulate the lengthy process for you in phasing it out and visualizing it into simple and achievable steps.
Architectural Excellence: We provide a wide spectrum of design services; ranging from architecture, interior, and landscape design. We design from small scale houses to large urban placemaking interventions. Moreover, our engineering subconsultants and specialists work closely with our core team, ensuring a well coordinated project.
Attention to Detail: Our design integrity reveals itself throughout the project construction. Our architects and designers are committed to delivering a project that exceeds your expectations and manifest architectural excellence even after we leave the job site, to stand testament to our joint efforts all through the project.
Naji Moujaes earned his Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 1996, securing an Areen Award for Excellence in Design. He obtained his Master’s degree in Architecture from the Southern California Institute for Architecture in 1999, and completed his EMBA at AUB in 2021.
Following architectural internships in Italy at Massimiliano Fuksas Architetti in Rome, and in Japan at Rikken Yamamoto (Pritzker Architecture Prize winner for 2024) and Fieldshop in Yokohama, Mr. Moujaes contributed to significant award-winning projects in New York City. He received the ‘Architects of Healing’ Presidential Citation from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Board of Directors for his role in designing the World Trade Center Memorial Museum in New York City. Additionally, he has been honored with the Young Architects Forum Award and the Emerging Voices recognition by The Architectural League of New York.
Mr. Moujaes has also shared his expertise as an educator, teaching architectural design studios with a cultural focus on the Arab world at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Rensselaer (RPI) School of Architecture. He has served as a jury member for The Architectural League of New York’s 2006 Young Architects’ Forum themed ‘Instability’, and for the NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Architecture/Environmental Structures. His work has been exhibited at The Artists Space in New York City, and he has participated in group exhibitions at The Drawing Center and MoMA in New York City.
He is the founder of PAD10 Architects + Designers, an internationally acclaimed architectural practice with offices in Kuwait, Lebanon, and Paris. PAD10 was recently awarded from the Royal Commission of AlUla for ‘100 Houses by 100 Architects’ in AlUla, KSA, the American Institute of Architects ME Chapter for the Baraka Seaside Residence in Kuwait, and Phase Eins Berlin for the KFAS New Headquarters and Convention Center in Kuwait. PAD10 also contributed to the Venice Biennale 2016 ‘Reporting from the Front’ as part of the Kuwait Pavilion.
He is a licensed architect in Paris, Beirut, and Kuwait where he retains architectural design studios with small teams of architects and designers. After founding PAD10 in 2008, he established PADx, Paris in 2022. The Paris setup is slated to become central to the other PAD studios, acknowledging all the resources it can tap into in one of the major cultural and design hubs of the world.
Established in 2014, a team of architects and designers, buttressed by competitive engineering sub-consultants, constitute a well-rounded support team that is ready to host clients, sustain, and grow with the architectural projects.
Established in 2008, a team of architects and designers , engineers, and other skilled personnel work hand in hand with the other studios, and ensure boots on the ground for quality assurance on under-construction projects. Architectural excellence is visible all the way through, as this is our core service to which we are dedicated.