Powered by its solar array for operations at LEED Platinum standards, the new BEEAH Headquarters has been designed to achieve net-zero with minimal energy consumption to serve as a blueprint for tomorrow’s smart, sustainable cities. Embodying BEEAH’s key principles of sustainability and digitalisation, the headquarters’ design responds to its environment as a series of interconnecting ‘dunes’ orientated and shaped to optimize local climatic conditions. Embedded within its sand dunes of Sharjah’s Al Sajaa desert, the design echoes the surrounding landscape that is shaped by the prevailing winds