WAHO was established by New Zealander Sam Spinks in 2009 with a vision to create dynamic and considered landscape spaces. Since its inception, our team has grown and progressed to a group of collaborative, like-minded professionals who are are aligned in passion and purpose. We are collectively committed to the delivery of leading landscape design that connects people with place.


With over 20 design professionals and support staff, our team is made up of Landscape Architects, Horticulturists, Irrigation Engineers, CGI specialists and Administration Personnel. Each individual project requires specific experience and skills: these are the key variable factors that form the basis upon which our team members are assigned to a project to ensure a seamless process and successful delivery.

FEATURED STAFF

Sam Spinks

Managing Director

Remi Bint

Associate Director

Pamela Hooper

Marketing & Operations Manager

Tina Heers

Associate Landscape Architect

Matt Stone

Senior Landscape Architect

Brian Cortez

Senior Landscape Architect

Yara El Assaad

Landscape Architect

Oli Krishantha

Senior Landscape Graphics Specialist

Buddhimal Langappuli

Landscape Graphics Technician

Ryan Reano

Irrigation Draftsman

Priyanka Dhurandhar

Graduate Landscape Architect

Daniel George

CAD Manager

Jenister Almaraj

Senior BIM Coordinator / India Team Lead

Hari Sreedharan

Landscape Technician

Jinu Varughese

Landscape Technican

Cindy Reyes

Accounts/Office Assistant

Liezl Malijan

Document Controller

Majid Khan

Office Assistant

Sujith Suresh

BIM Modeller

Sreerag Ravindran

BIM Modeller

Amal Radhakrishnan

BIM Modeller

Jamsheed Vilakkumadathil

CAD Techinician

SAM SPINKS

MANAGING DIRECTOR

EXPERIENCE

Significant experience across a wide range of developments with a core focus on landscape architecture for culturally and historically significant buildings and spaces. An award-winning landscape architect, prior to his relocation to the Middle East, Sam was a senior landscape architect at one of Sydney’s premier heritage landscape design studios.

This foundation and appreciation for the sensitivities of designing historical and cultural sites has been translated across the Middle East region, with the completion of a number of world heritage, as well as internationally renowned, sites. In addition, his international breadth of design expertise spans public open spaces, hospitality and mixed use developments.

His qualifications also extend to horticulture and he combines his myriad of skills to form appropriate and evolutionary design responses for industry leading landscape spaces and interventions.

QUALIFICATIONS
  • 2005 Bachelor of Design (Landscape Architecture), Victoria University, NZ
  • 2000 Bachelor of Applied Science, Massey University, NZ

“The world is moving in to a phase when landscape design may well be recognised as the most comprehensive of the arts. Historically we have created environments that are a projection of our conceptual ideas into nature. It is only ‘today’ that the collective landscape has emerged as a social necessity. We are promoting a landscape art on a scale never conceived of in history.”

Geoffrey Jellicoe, Landscape of Man.

REMI BINT

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
EXPERIENCE

Remi brings over 14 years’ significant experience both locally and internationally across a large variety of projects from Urban and Civic, Health and Education, Sports and Leisure, Residential and Master Planning projects from project initiation through concept to on-site construction.

QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor of Design (Hons) (Landscape Architecture) 2003

"To create great landscapes that serve the diverse interests of the community, stakeholders and client we need to challenge preconceived notions, draw inspiration from different views and collaborate widely. Great landscapes are indeed the confluence of abstract and figurative."

Pamela Hooper

Marketing & Operations Manager
EXPERIENCE

With a background in marketing and project coordination in the design and event sector in the UAE, Pamela oversees operations, marketing and HR. Passionate about collaborating with teams that are making a positive impact, she applies strong administrative, organisational, strategic skills to support the WAHO Team in delivering thoughtfully considered projects that enable people to connect with nature and community.

QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor of Arts (Hons), 2006
  • Graduate Diploma in Commerce, 2007

Tina Heers

Senior Landscape Architect
EXPERIENCE

After gaining experience in the Australian market Tina headed to the middle east to grow her landscape knowledge in the region. Working on multiple projects in the UAE, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, KSA and Kuwait. Tina has been involved in a range of landscape projects at different scales. Tina is passionate about the contributions that women make to the workplace and through the design practice, advocating for balance and equality in the field.

QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor of Landscape Architecture 2013

“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

Walt Disney

Matt Stone

Senior Landscape Architect
EXPERIENCE

Matt is experienced as a lead designer,guiding teams throughout each project stage, from concept through to construction, across varying scales. Matthew is passionate about working within the public realm and designing spaces that enable people to interact with their surrounding environments.

QUALIFICATIONS
  • 2018 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand

  • École Nationale Supérieure de la Nature et du Paysage (ENSNP), France

Brian Cortez

Senior Landscape Architect
EXPERIENCE

Brian has 15 years of diverse experience in Landscape Architecture and Construction in the Middle East and Philippines. Since 2008 he has been based in the GCC working with various international consultancies on projects of varying complexity and scale. Brian’s critical thinking, technical skills and design flair are invaluable to the projects he manages and collaborates on.

 

QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor of Science in Architecture, 2002