Hospitality Design: Danish Kurani

Hospitality Design, July 2020

Excerpt from a profile on design activist Danish Kurani

On a visit to his birthplace of Karachi, Pakistan, an 8-year-old Danish Kurani watched his cousin play cricket with friends in the street, sharing that makeshift playing field with cows, debris, and rickshaws and cars zipping by—just barely missing the children. Four years later, in a suburb of Atlanta, that indelible memory inspired his entry for a design competition at his mosque: a rec center where the kids of Karachi could play safely. “I realized that I could use architecture to help improve people’s lives,” recalls Kurani. The 13 year old may not have won the competition, but he gained focus after discovering the power of design.