SML architects

05/12/2025

| Small, Medium, Large edition.

At SML we turn coffee, ideas, and a whole lot of passion into spaces you’ll never want to leave.

Grateful for what we do, and for the people who make it happen.

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14/08/2025

For years, the facades of this Banha University building endured fire, dust, and time.

We precisely surveyed their proportions, redrafted every profile, and began reconstructing them in our workshop as part of a full facade restoration.

Soon, the facade will be reinstated in its complete form once more.

12/11/2024

SML Architects is a boutique architecture practice in Cairo, dedicated to a unique approach in designing spaces of all scales—small, medium, and large. Our projects are crafted with a distinct and personalized style, allowing us to reimagine spaces in fresh, unconventional ways. We are looking for an Interior Designer to join our team, contributing to a diverse range of projects from concept through to completion.

Requirements:
• Minimum 2 years of experience in interior design, ideally in hospitality or residential projects.
• Strong leadership, creativity, and project management skills.
• Proficiency in design software (3Ds max, vray, corona, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite).
• Excellent communication and an in-depth understanding of materials and finishes.

Key Responsibilities:
• Lead space planning and produce detailed 3D renders and drawings.
• Develop innovative design concepts within budget and technical constraints.
• Stay current with design trends and bring a unique vision to each project.
• Coordinate closely with team members, contractors, and other designers.
• Oversee site visits and supervise on-site dressing and installation phases.

Location: Hybrid | WFH & on-site: New Cairo, Cairo, Egypt |

If you’re passionate about redefining and designing small, medium or large spaces, send us your portfolio and resume at [email protected]

16/10/2024

Check out our full project on Behance

The project occupies the former oldest printing press of the Coptic church, deeply rooted in the memory of every visitor of St Mark cathedral, a space where long ago Copts had celebrated the first prints of the church, a space which was abandoned for many…

03/04/2024

Our latest work through the lens of Andrew A. Shenouda

16/10/2023

| With the strategy of adaptive reuse, we are transforming an abandoned old printing press building into a theatre and a dramaturgy school | Main elevation axonometric/studies.

21/09/2023

| Through a series of brand immersion sessions with , SML studied the psychological journey of exercising, translating this into a fit-out that sensorially inspires the individual, and aids them on their journey of physical renewal. There is a psychological state that you enter before, during, and after you exercise. As you enter the fitness center – you are still in public-facing mode, the ‘self’ you show to the world. This is the phase in which you are building up to the moment that you are going to exercise which is translated in the entrance and reception space. and then the act of exercising which is a much more internalized process - private and disconnected from others which SML manifested in the main space and the other exercising studios were the users will find themselves in a seclusion. And then, once you’re through it, there’s the euphoria of achievement.





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13/09/2023

| Through a series of brand immersion sessions with Alter8eg, SML studied the psychological journey of exercising, translating this into a fit-out that sensorially inspires the individual, and aids them on their journey of physical renewal. There is a psychological state that you enter before, during, and after you exercise. As you enter the fitness center – you are still in public-facing mode, the ‘self’ you show to the world. This is the phase in which you are building up to the moment that you are going to exercise which is translated in the entrance and reception space. and then the act of exercising which is a much more internalized process - private and disconnected from others which SML manifested in the main space and the other exercising studios were the users will find themselves in a seclusion. And then, once you’re through it, there’s the euphoria of achievement.



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15/08/2023

| The dark zone in where spinning classes takes place | Where the users face their inner-selves contrasting the more dynamic public facing mode

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08/08/2023

24/07/2023

| Through a series of brand immersion sessions with ,SML studied the psychological journey of exercising, translating this into a fit-out that sensorially inspires the individual, and aids them on their journey of physical renewal. There is a psychological state that you enter before, during, and after you exercise. As you enter the fitness center – you are still in public-facing mode, the ‘self’ you show to the world. This is the phase in which you are building up to the moment that you are going to exercise which is translated in the entrance and reception space. and then the act of exercising which is a much more internalized process - private and disconnected from others which SML manifested in the main space and the other exercising studios were the users will find themselves in a seclusion. And then, once you’re through it, there’s the euphoria of achievement.



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