GAJ is one of the largest and longest established UK architectural and design practices in the UAE. Throughout its 20-year history, the company has created some of Duabi's most iconic buildings and helped define the emirate as we know it today.An award-winning and multi-disciplinary architecture practice, GAJ has particular expertise in hotel and hospitality, residential and commercial, education, sport and elisure design.Despite its years, the company remains young and dynamic, employing 170 staff at its Dubai headquarters, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and UK offices. Its portfolio of work is also extensive with a wide range of built and ongoing projects across the Middle East and North Africa.GAJ originally started in the UK in 1989 as Godwin Austen Johnson. However its lineage of partnerships harks back to 1847 with a corporate archive of landmark British architecture throughout the industrial and modern ages.In 1991, Principal and Managing Partner Brian Johnson opened the GAJ Headquarters in dubai. He had been practicing in the emirate since 1975 and saw exciting opportunities to contribute to the development of a new world city.With more than 30 years of regional experience to his name, Johnson's influence on modern Middle Eastern architecture has been pervasive. GAJ's body of work comprises some of Dubai's most recognisable and prized buildings.
