We’ve got some brilliant news to share this week. Our Design Manager, Hazal Karaoz, has been named in Commercial Interior Design’s 2025 Power List.
For those who know Hazal, this won’t come as a surprise. However, it’s still incredibly special to see her recognised alongside some of the industry’s most influential designers.
At Summertown Interiors, we’ve always believed that exceptional interior fit-out projects comes from exceptional people.
Hazal Karaoz, our Design Manager, has been featured in Commercial Interior Design’s 2025 Power List.
This isn’t just an honour for Hazal. It’s recognition of the principles that drive our approach to sustainable fit-out: Thoughtful research, human-centred design, and environmental responsibility woven into every project.
Why This Matters
The CID Power List celebrates senior designers who are genuinely shaping how we experience commercial spaces across the region. These are the people influencing workplace design, hospitality environments, and how companies express their values through the spaces they create.
Hazal’s inclusion reflects what we see every day: Her commitment to designing commercial fit-out projects in Dubai that work brilliantly for the people using them.
Since joining Summertown in 2023 after relocating from Turkey, she’s brought fresh perspective and energy to our team.
As a LEED Green Associate, she’s passionate about creating spaces that support both wellbeing and environmental performance. She doesn’t see these as competing priorities. She sees them as completely connected.
What Sets Hazal Apart
Hazal designs spaces with both people and business realities in mind. She understands that a workplace has to feel great to be in, but also support productivity, brand experience and commercial outcomes.
Skilled and practical
Hazal knows how projects get built and keeps things realistic from the start. Her design decisions consider cost, timelines and feasibility, which means fewer surprises later.
Designed for humans, not just for photos
She focuses on flow, comfort and how people actually work. Her spaces help teams collaborate better, stay focused when needed and feel energised in their environment.
Sustainability with purpose
Hazal brings sustainability into the project naturally. Smarter materials, energy-aware choices and long term thinking that benefits both the planet and operational efficiency.
A collaborative partner
She listens, involves the right voices and keeps communication easy. Clients feel supported, contractors feel aligned and projects move forward smoothly.
It is not just her design thinking that stands out. Hazal is recognised for the way she shows up in a team. As Nicola Trivett, General Manager at Summertown Interiors, put it, she is not only a talented designer but an integral part of the team, always meeting challenges with heart, soul and a smile. Those who work with her feel the difference.
Projects That Tell the Story
In just two years, Hazal has already made her mark on several significant projects.
Office Spaces That Inspire
JTI Regional Headquarters
A workspace designed to support collaboration whilst providing acoustic privacy and focus zones. Biophilic elements and natural materials create an environment where people genuinely want to spend their day.
Equinix Data Centre Offices
Balancing technical demands with human needs. This project demonstrates Hazal’s ability to navigate complex requirements whilst maintaining design integrity.
Dubai Development Authority Offices
A government workspace that needed to reflect both authority and accessibility. Hazal’s design creates professional gravitas whilst ensuring the environment feels welcoming.
Healthcare Environments
Hazal has also contributed significantly to our ongoing partnership with Mediclinic. She’s worked on multiple facilities across Dubai and Abu Dhabi. These healthcare interior fit-out projects require unique sensitivity. They balance clinical functionality with patient comfort, infection control with welcoming aesthetics, and technical precision with human warmth.
Check out the Mediclinic Dermatology Clinic fit-out at Abu Dhabi Airport, delivered by Summertown Interiors in collaboration with leading healthcare professionals. Designed with patient comfort, clinical functionality and sustainability in mind, this case study highlights how thoughtfully built environments can support wellbeing and operational excellence.
Her work demonstrates her versatility as a designer. Moreover, it shows her ability to adapt her approach to serve different user needs.
What It Means for our Team at Summertown Interiors
This recognition is about more than one person. It reflects the culture we’re building at Summertown Interiors, where design thinking leads our approach to every interior fit-out project.
We believe exceptional fit-out projects comes from people who care deeply about outcomes, who collaborate generously, and who understand that every project has the potential to make a real difference to how people work and feel.
Hazal embodies all of that, and we’re incredibly proud to have her leading design within our team.
If you’re planning a commercial fit-out project in Dubai and want to work with design talent like Hazal, get in touch with our team. We’d love to show you how thoughtful, sustainable design can transform your workspace.
Congratulations, Hazal. This is brilliantly deserved.
About Hazal Karaoz
Hazal Karaoz is Design Manager at Summertown Interiors. She leads commercial and healthcare interior design projects across the UAE. As a LEED Green Associate, Hazal specialises in creating environments that balance aesthetic excellence with environmental responsibility. Since joining in 2023, she has contributed to major projects for JTI, Equinix, Mediclinic, and Dubai Development Authority.
About Summertown Interiors
We’re a Dubai-based sustainable fit-out contractor with 28 years of experience. We deliver complex commercial, healthcare, education and Hospitality fit-out projects across the UAE. We’ve completed 20+ LEED-certified projects and hold ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 certifications.
