The posting
Job Description
- Define, own and protect the airport’s overall design identity so the terminal reads as one coherent whole that is distinctive and authentically representative of Tashkent and Uzbek culture, landscape and heritage.
- Act as guardian of the design identity, testing every design decision against it and challenging or rejecting elements that dilute, fragment or conflict with the agreed identity.
- Create, own and maintain the Airport Design Guidelines as the single source of truth for materials, finishes, colour, lighting, form, detailing and brand expression across the terminal.
- Ensure all EPC Contractor, concessionaire and third-party designs comply with the Design Guidelines, and control the governance process for exceptions, waivers and updates.
- Ensure retail and concession units, lounges and commercial fit-outs are designed in harmony with the airport identity, allowing controlled tenant expression within defined design and quality parameters.
- Ensure signage and wayfinding are consistent, legible, appropriately multilingual and fully integrated with the design identity to deliver a seamless passenger journey.
- Ensure functional hardware — check-in desks, border control and immigration counters, security positions, gates and self-service equipment — is designed to a common visual language and quality standard aligned with the identity.
- Review architectural designs, drawings and specifications prepared by the EPC Contractor for compliance with the Design Guidelines, Employer’s Requirements and international design practice.
- Coordinate architectural and identity interfaces with structural, MEP, baggage handling and other technical disciplines so the design identity is preserved without compromising operations.
- Ensure design solutions support passenger flow, operational efficiency, safety and a world-class user experience consistent with the identity.
- Review materials, finishes and detailing to ensure quality, durability and faithful expression of the design identity in every space.
- Support the SPV design approval process by reviewing EPC and tenant deliverables against the Design Guidelines and providing technical recommendations.
- Identify design-identity risks early and ensure resolution with the EPC Contractor, concessionaires, PMC and shareholder technical teams.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Architecture or a related design discipline.
- Professional accreditation or chartership (e.g. RIBA or equivalent) an advantage.
- Minimum 12–15 years in architectural and interior/identity design and multidisciplinary coordination, ideally on major aviation or landmark public buildings.
- Proven experience creating and enforcing design guidelines or brand/identity standards across large, multi-stakeholder projects.
- Experience coordinating architectural design with structural, MEP and specialist airport systems, and governing tenant, retail and concession fit-out design against a defined identity.
- Strong design judgement with the authority to protect a design vision under commercial and programme pressure.
- Credible senior-stakeholder partner able to influence designers, contractors, concessionaires and shareholder technical teams.
- Rigorous, detail-oriented reviewer of drawings, materials and finishes; fluent English required, Russian or Uzbek an advantage.
- Airport Design Guidelines created, approved and adopted as the controlling design reference across the project.
- Terminal design — including retail, signage and functional hardware — delivered in demonstrable harmony with the approved identity.
- Design identity recognisably representative of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, validated through design reviews with no unresolved identity non-conformances at opening.



