Who we are
tkdp offers dynamic, innovative and practical designs solutions throughout continuous research and pioneering methods that effectively respond to the ever-evolving market needs and contemporary lifestyle.
tkdp is driven by the ambition to achieve excellency, exclusivity, and the highest level of quality. Our solid experience pushes us to keep developing architectural solutions that stand out, add a signature value to the built environment, clients and societies.
tkdp offers solid international experience developed over the last 20 years in designing, managing, and delivering world-class designs addressing clients’ needs as well as generating media and public attention.
As a design-led practice, we focus on all project stages from inception, brief development throughout all design stages.
Our research principles are based on bringing clients, design team, and specialists together to conceive and embrace new ideas and solutions, merging creativity with practicality. Every single project is a new.
Our aim
Every project is a new milestone which we strive to create as a new unique work tailored for each specific client, brief, site and community.
The Founders
tkdp was founded by Tariq Khayyat and Xiaosheng Li
Tariq Khayyat
CO-FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
Tariq Khayyat is an architect, designer and university lecturer with over 15 years of experience in delivering international projects across all stages, from inception to completion.
Founded in 2018, Tariq Khayyat Design Partners (TKDP) offers a bespoke design approach specifically tailored to the needs of each client, as well as to those of the existing context and the local communities. Tariq is responsible for the overall design direction and business strategy of the firm, overseeing all R&D aspects from market analysis to technological advancement.
Prior to establishing TKDP, Tariq worked as project director and designer at Zaha Hadid Architects in London, before heading its headquarter in the Middle East between 2016 and 2018. Tariq co-designed and led a number of ZHA’s seminal projects, including Bee’ah HQ in Sharjah, UAE, and the Meixihu International Culture & Arts in Changsha, China.
Since gaining his Master of Architecture with Honours at the Architectural Association School of Architecture’s Design Research Laboratory (AA DRL) in London in 2005, Tariq continues to lecturing and being invited to graduation juries in several universities in the UK, UAE and across the Middle East.
Xiaosheng Li
CO-FOUNDER, DIRECTOR
With over ten years of experience in urbanism and architecture gained in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, Xiaosheng Li focuses on concept design and form-finding, mastering the latest technological solutions and construction methods.
Xiaosheng was awarded a Masters degree by the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London, before joining Zaha Hadid Architects to work on truly avant-garde international designs and experimental projects for over five years.
As a director at TKDP, Xiaosheng now co-leads the design direction of the practice, always pushing the limits of architectural theories and solutions.