High-Rise Buildings
We are leaders in the design of tall buildings, pioneering the trend to build higher and slimmer to optimize valuable real estate in the dense urban environments.
Our expertise makes it possible to push the boundaries of the aesthetic visions and for our clients to realize their goals.
G+25 Res. Building - Burj Khalifa
Year Design: 2013
Year Built: –
BUA: –
Cost: –
Location: Dubai
Client: –
A twin tower development creates a distinct urban form in Dubai’s urban milieu. Rising 25 floors, the towers feature ‘random’ façade of square shading patterns that create a dynamic urban art structure by themselves.
The white opaque tone of its facade is an anti-thesis to the glazed surfaces of most of the existing neighboring towers establishing its unique identity in the urban fabric. Utilizing the square as a grid pattern from plan, the tower language conveys a collage of distinguishing cube forms that combine into a chamfered summit offering panoramic views of the Dubai’s iconic skyline.
Al Wasl Tower
Year Design: 2017
Year Built: –
BUA: –
Cost: –
Location: Dubai
Client: Al Tayer
One of the most premium plots on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, with a sleek design that poses to become an iconic building on the world-famous street. The building design is around 157 thousand square meter of built up area that hosts over 800 residential units with premium views on both sides of the building.
On one side, the street facing units have an open view of the street, the modern museum and the DIFC area while the other side has the gulf front on the horizon of the view.
LIV Residences
Year Design: 2015
Year Built: 2020
BUA: 37,000 Sq.m (4B+G+27+R)
Cost: AED 119,000,000/-
Location: Dubai
Client: LIV Developers
Located in one of Dubai’s most sought-after neighborhoods, in Dubai Marina, the tower with its waterfront is a highly visible structure. Rising to 27 floors, the shape gradually transforms from its curving podium basze into a gridiron tower that tapers at the upper floors.
The tower’s facade showcases geometric textured patterns that provide depths and shadows to the built form. A mix of studios, 1-, 2-, and 3-bedroom flats of varying sizes together with retail and basement parking fulfills the architectural space program for the project.
Residential Building 9GG
Year Design: 2016
Year Built: –
BUA: –
Cost: –
Location: Dubai
Client: –
With a prime location, the Plot 9GG is set along the bank of the Dubai Marina canal.
The site is easily accessible by the tram, with the station located a few minutes away from the site. Both contextual factors elevate the significance of the site and adds to the allure of the design. The plot is set along the marina canal, with the location allowing for the design to have premium views and access to the neighboring plot, and the train station on the other side of the bridge.
The design of the tower is very pragmatic, following the local code and zoning ordinances, which also allows for the design to be more efficient. The parti of the design consists of two masses, one transparent, and the other solid. The transparent segment is oriented perpendicular to the canal, allowing the inhabitants a view down the water path.
The simple, alternating articulation of the balconies, mimicking stacking blocks, increases the focus on the central part of the tower. The base of the tower interlocks with the podium, which consists of a strip of townhouses and retail space front the water.
Dubai Creek Harbour
Year Design: 2015
Year Built: –
BUA: –
Cost: –
Location: Dubai
Client: EMAAR
Dubai Creek Harbor development plays host to a future community of high-rise towers amongst to include the successor to the tallest tower in the world. The development is envisioned to become “a world-class city sub-center which promotes new concepts in sustainable urban development in Dubai.” The vision for Dubai Creek Harbour at The Lagoons is to realize a future urban city where local culture and climate are respected and nurture a live-work-play environment that is in harmony with nature.
In this endeavor, three community plots have been designed to reflect the developer’s vision. The overall building mass presents a distinct form for the building from the ground, podium levels, tower, and crown. From an 8m x 8m grid layout, a 4m x 4m grid provides the basis for floor plan development that addresses architectural and structural requirements. The building program allows for residential, mixed-use, and amenities to be arranged according to the space program requirement of client. Mixed use and amenities floors are located in the podium while residential floors are located in the tower. Each plot is designed to respond to context with respect to location, design parameters, and views.
The towers were designed with a modern style depicting balance, stability, and elegance. Its glass façade features the rhythmic patterns of balconies framed in protruding masses of volumes creating depths and shadows. The podiums consist of parking, amenities, and retail spaces – the latter engaging and enlivening the street character of the development.
SOL Bay Tower
Year Design: 2014
Year Built: 2020
BUA: 43,000 Sq.m (3B+G+19+R)
Cost: AED 150,000,000/-
Location: Dubai
Client: SOL Properties
Business Bay is one of the most dynamic business locations in Dubai incorporating modern business towers that will define a new building skyline. The Sol Bay Tower located on a prime corner plot features offices and retail component.
The corner facade study focused on preserving urban views while retaining privacy amongst building tenants. With uniquely-shaped balconies that address privacy and vista concerns the overall design create an interesting building facade at the corner elevations.
SOL Avenue
Year Design: 2015
Year Built: 2020
BUA: 36,900 Sq.m (3B+G+2P+19+3R)
Cost: AED 130,000,000/-
Location: Dubai
Client: SOL Properties
This midrise tower is located in Business Bay, one of the largest Architecture developments in Dubai. The program is mixed use, with retail and parking in the podium, while the upper floors consist of high end residential apartment units.
The building form is clean, consisting of a simple parti, which comprises three masses, two of which house the apartment units, while the separation is created by the corridors. The third mass is the podium that acts as the base of the tower.The façade treatment is also very clean and modern.
A clean masonry-like pattern consisting of the exposed horizontal floor slabs and vertical elements act as a veil over the building glazing and glass rails of the apartment balconies.
Al Faraa Tower
Year Design: 2014
Year Built: –
BUA: –
Cost: –
Location: Dubai
Client: Al Faraa Group
Located in Dubai Maritime City, the 35-story podium –and-tower building provides over 300 residential units in a slender rising tower. Car parking occupies the 4-level podium which supports the residential tower for 2 and 3 bedroom apartments.
The building facade features structural vertical fins that taper to the upper levels creating a prominent vertical character. Different designs that incorporate facade tower articulations were developed at the concept design stage.
DAMAC Maison Prive
Year Design: 2012
Year Built: 2015
BUA: 10,000 Sq.m (2B+G+3P+49+R)
Cost: –
Location: Dubai
Client: DAMAC
The design for Damac Headquarters, a high-rise tower at Business Bay, consists of two narrow, elegant masses, one with 50 floors and the other with 39, above a four-level podium. Both of the sleek, curved masses use the same radii, in order to allow for typical units throughout. Balconies cantilever off the main masses in a settled but fluid undulating pattern overlooking the lake.
This design allows the building to offer lake views from all units, through the use of a single loaded corridor. Both wings contain residential units, with luxury serviced apartments in the lower mass and residential apartments in the taller mass. Podium and basement levels provide parking, services, retail shops, and building entrances.
Anwa I - Omniyat
Year Design: 2013
Year Built: 2021
BUA: 47,800 Sq.m (G+4P+44+R)
Cost: AED 130,000,000/-
Location: Dubai
Client: Omniyat
Located at the edge of the Dubai waterfront, the Maritime City Residential Development is a study in façade design for the Omniyat Company. Using the traditional construction as a stepping off point, the study worked to create three distinctly modern structures from the same skeleton. The result is as dramatic as the remarkable differences between the three studies: Using a “House of Cards” approach, the first study mixes solids and voids, projected balconies and recesses to create a dynamic interplay of lightness. The mixing of projections and recesses reinforces the sense that the structure has been assembled with intersecting modular construction rather than a solid traditional form.
The second study uses a sleek, machined finish with dominant horizontal banding. The regularity of the form is enhanced by careful, graceful sculpting of the form creating sensual curves in the otherwise straightforward façade. Finally, the third study treats the floor levels as a series of stacked plates, turned and ‘fanned’ at irregular intervals to create a truly dramatic interplay of solid and void.
Anwa II - Omniyat
Year Design: 2015
Year Built: –
BUA: –
Cost: –
Location: Dubai
Client: Omniyat
The 36-storey tower with G+2P showcases a slender structure to become one of the landmark buildings in Dubai Maritime City. The modern design integrates the verticality of glazed facades and residential balconies in well-proportioned elevations. Different facade options included wall fins that curve seamlessly from the podium to the building facade. A geometric patterned facade offers an alternative option.
Residential units offer studios, 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom, 3-bedroom, and penthouse typologies with loft. Building landscape is designed to complement the podium amenities and the interior designs represent a coordinated approach to achieve stylishness and elegance.
Res. Tower in Dubai Hills - EMAAR
Year Design: 2017
Year Built: –
BUA: –
Cost: –
Location: Dubai
Client: EMAAR
The architecture form of the buildings and podium is modern comprising of an arrangement of simple masses that intersect and interlock with one another. The façade treatment of the towers is also modern with a 50-50 combination of solid and glass and complimented by horizontal balconies.
These horizontal balconies are accentuated by incidental protrusions scattered randomly throughout. There is minimal open space available as the plot’s lot coverage is almost a hundred percent. Except for the townhouses that directly overlook the park, the majority of the landscaping is confined to the terrace on the first floor. The landscape terrace is oriented northwest to enjoy maximum views of the park.
The landscaping of the terrace is centered around the pool, which is strategically located on the edge adjacent to the park. Incidental landscaping and lounging areas surround the pool and gardens are provided for the units located on the same floor. On the ground, the street facing retail and lobby for Tower 1 and townhouses opening onto the park foster interaction between the tenants and the public. Internally, the main community space will be the landscaped terrace on the first floor where activities will take place around the pool.
Res. Building in Maritime City
Year Design: 2014
Year Built: –
BUA: –
Cost: –
Location: Dubai
Client: SOL Properties
Located in an emerging mixed-use district of Maritime City in Dubai, the residential building provides 100 plus units as studios, one-, two- and three-bedroom units within a 39-storey tower with podium parking.
Located along the waterfront, all residential units have breathtaking views of the surrounding waters that complement its premium location. Conceptual studies of the built form provided design option for the high-rise tower.
