We add value to what projects can become — through architecture, interiors, landscape, urban design and execution shaped around people, place, purpose and lasting value.

We Don’t Simply Design Projects.
Order Shapes
Human Experience

At Collage, we create architecture through proportion, rhythm, light, and spatial discipline — transforming complex programs into clear, meaningful environments that feel calm, purposeful, and enduring.

Designing Beyond
Functionality

We shape environments through spatial rhythm, material expression, light, and cultural geometry, creating immersive interiors where architecture becomes an experience rather than merely an enclosure.

Interiors With
Emotional Memory

At Collage, interiors are composed through light, texture, silence, and proportion — creating spaces that stay in memory beyond style, luxury, or visual appearance.

Connected Expertise. One Practice.

Manama | Dammam | Lahore | London
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Architecture & Urban Design

From buildings to masterplans, we create context-responsive environments that bring together purpose, identity, function and long-term value.

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Interior & Experience Design

We shape interiors through space, material, atmosphere and brand — creating distinctive experiences that work beautifully for the people who use them.

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Landscape & Public Realm

We connect architecture with nature through landscapes and public spaces designed for movement, gathering, wellbeing and a stronger sense of place.

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Fit-Out & Project Delivery

Through Collage and CDC, we carry ideas into execution with technical coordination, cost awareness, quality control and disciplined delivery across Saudi Arabia and the GCC.

How We Add Value

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One Connected Design Approach

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We connect architecture, interiors, landscape, urban design and delivery from the beginning, creating one coherent project vision rather than separate design solutions.

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From Detail to Masterplan

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We work across scales — from individual interiors and buildings to landscapes, districts and urban developments — while keeping every decision aligned with the wider purpose.

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Regional Insight. Global Standards.

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Our studios combine deep experience in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan with international collaboration, technical standards and a clear understanding of local context.

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Design Through Delivery

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Where the project requires it, we support the journey from concept and technical coordination to fit-out, quality control and site delivery, protecting the original design intent.

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People-Centred Experience

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We design around how people arrive, move, work, live, heal and gather, ensuring that spaces perform well and remain meaningful beyond first impressions.

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Commercially Aware Design

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We test design decisions against the client’s objectives, operational needs, cost priorities and long-term ambitions so creativity becomes measurable value.

Collage is a multidisciplinary Value Addition Practice. We bring design, technical thinking and delivery experience together to reveal what each project can become — and to create lasting value for clients, users and place.

Trusted by clients.
Built through long-term partnerships.

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Our Journey

1996 — The Beginning in Saudi Arabia

Collage began in Saudi Arabia as Frieze Interior Design, founded by Ahmed Shah and Naunain Ahmed. Early recognition came through contemporary, competition-winning interiors that challenged convention and established a design-led foundation for the practice.

2003 — Collage Established in Bahrain

The move to Bahrain became a defining chapter for Collage. It positioned the practice within an open international business environment, broadened its collaborations and created a platform for work across markets.

2016 — Lahore and London Network

New connections in Lahore and London expanded Collage’s design, research and technical-coordination capacity, enabling teams to work across disciplines, cultures and time zones.

2020–2024 — The Istanbul Chapter

Collage established an Istanbul studio during global uncertainty, strengthening regional design exchange and international collaboration. The studio completed its chapter in 2024 and remains part of the practice’s journey, not its current studio network.

Today — Four Connected Studios. One Practice.

Today, Collage works through connected studios in Manama, Dammam, Lahore and London. Architecture, interiors, landscape, cost awareness and project delivery come together as one multidisciplinary Value Addition Practice.

A Value Addition Practice

Strategic design thinking

Multidisciplinary integration

Human and environmental responsibility

Context-specific solutions

Cost-aware project delivery

Technology-led coordination

We design with purpose — where creativity meets strategy and execution.

Collage brings design, commercial insight and delivery thinking together to create places with purpose—and measurable value for clients, users and communities.

Our Mission

Design intelligence

Human experience

Delivery confidence

To combine creative vision, strategic thinking, multidisciplinary expertise and technical intelligence to create places that are meaningful, practical, distinctive and enduring.

Leadership and People

Collage is led by experienced architects, designers and delivery professionals working as one connected team. Senior leadership remains close to every project, combining creative direction, technical judgement and commercial awareness from early strategy through execution. Across our four studios, we share one belief: purposeful design should improve how people live, work, heal, gather and experience place.

Ahmed Shah

Founder | Archipreneur

Naunain Ahmed

Founder | Creative Director

Sameer Muawad

Head of Business
Development

Zia Majeed

Business Development
Director, KSA

Sajjad Haider

Lead Architect | Pakistan

Naeem Chaudary

Managing Partner | Pakistan

Integrated practice across our studios

Design Intelligence & Visualisation

We combine design research, visualisation and emerging AI tools to explore ideas faster and communicate them with greater clarity. Technology expands creative possibilities while experienced designers remain responsible for judgement, context and design intent.

BIM & Integrated Coordination

Our BIM-led process brings architecture, interiors and technical systems into one coordinated environment. It improves precision, supports interdisciplinary decisions and helps protect design intent as projects move from concept through documentation and delivery.

Collage Consultants

We collaborate with visionary clients, developers, institutions, and brands to create spaces that inspire people and elevate experiences.

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