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post updated 27 July 2024

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We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Dubai Architecture. The focus is on contemporary UAE buildings – generally large, interesting architecture such as museums and skyscrapers.

We have 4 pages of Dubai Architecture selections.

Dubai Buildings : news + key projects

Dubai Buildings : A-F

Dubai Architecture : G-P (this page)

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Key Dubai Architecture Designs, arranged chronologically:

16 February 2024
Mercedes-Benz Brand Center, design district D3
Design: heller studios
Mercedes-Benz Brand Center Dubai UAE
photo : heller studios
Mercedes-Benz Brand Center Dubai

10 Nov 2023
PIMS Tea Cafe
Design: KIDZ studio
PIMS Tea Cafe, Dubai
photo : Sergey Melnikov
PIMS Tea Cafe Dubai, UAE

8 June 2023
Gemini Splendor
Design: Aedas
Gemini Splendor Dubai Residential Development
image : Aedas
Gemini Splendor, Dubai Residential Development

5 Oct 2022
Ladybird Nursery
Design: Godwin Austen Johnson Architects – GAJ
Ladybird Nursery Dubai
image courtesy of architects practice
Ladybird Nursery Dubai, UAE

2 Feb 2023
New Citizens School
Architects: Godwin Austen Johnson
New British Curriculum School Dubai UAE
image courtesy of architects practice
New British Curriculum School

14 Nov 2022
Museum of the Future Dubai Building
Architect: Killa Design
Museum of the Future Dubai Building News
photo © Adrian Welch
Museum of the Future Dubai Building

15 June 2022
The Perfect Storm, Dubai Hills Mall
Design: Pharos Controls Limited
The Perfect Storm Dubai Hills Mall
photo Courtesy of Creation Gulf
The Perfect Storm, Dubai Hills Mall

post updated 14 November 2022
ICD Brookfield Place, 312 Al Mustaqbal St, Trade Centre, DIFC
Design: Foster + Partners
ICD Brookfield Place Dubai
image courtesy of architects practice
ICD Brookfield Place Dubai

31 Mar 2022
Majlis + Sameem for Expo 2020
Design: AGi architects
Majlis + Sameem for Expo 2020 Dubai pavilion
photo : Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre
Majlis + Sameem for Expo 2020 Dubai

21 Sep 2021
Mosque of the Late Mohamed Abdulkhaliq Gargash, Um Suqeim Road, Al Quoz
Design: Dabbagh Architects
Mosque of the Late Mohamed Abdulkhaliq Gargash, Dubai Building News
photo courtesy of architects office
Mosque of the Late Mohamed Abdulkhaliq Gargash in Dubai

12 Mar 2021
House of Wisdom, Sharjah
House of Wisdom in Sharjah, UAE

5 July 2020
Kraz Restaurant, Sharjah
Architects: H2R Design
Kraz Restaurant Sharjah interior design
image courtesy of architects office
Kraz Restaurant in Sharjah

Infinity Tower Dubai
Design: Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM)
Infinity Tower Dubai Architecture
picture from Ruggiu
Infinity Tower Dubai
A marvellous skyscraper designed by the Architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill of Chicago, that RUGGIU, together with its partner the UAE Murano Lighting is pleased to illuminate in the façade part by means of high efficiency RGB led modules – IP68 – manufactured in different sizes to fit in the different niches of the twisting tower.

Museum of Middle East Modern Art
Architects: UNStudio
Museum of Middle East Modern Art
picture from architect
MOMEMA building
It is envisaged that MOMEMA will hold a variety of spaces to exhibit Arts and Culture such as exhibitions, art galleries, leasable workshop spaces, auditorium, and amphitheatre for live performances and international festivals. In addition, Museum of Middle Eastern Modern Art offers a boutique hotel with 60 keys and a boutique retail promenade on the active Culture Village waterfront, as well as a high end signature restaurant on the top level, with 360 degree views of Dubai Creek.

The Opus
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
The Opus Dubai Architecture
render from architect
The Opus Dubai Buildings
The Opus is a fluid, spatial building that refutes traditional definitions of office functionality. Constructed of three separate towers the building will appear as a singular unified whole, that hovers from the ground, with a distinctive free form void.

Jumeirah Emirates Towers
Design: Norr Group – Hazel Wong
Jumeirah Emirates Towers
picture from Jumeirah
Jumeirah Emirates Towers Dubai
Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel: 56 floors
Emirates Office Tower: 54 floors

Nakheel Harbour & Tower Buildings
Design: Woods Bagot
Nakheel Harbour Tower
picture from YM
Nakheel Harbour & Tower
The design for the 270 hectare masterplan and more than 1 kilometre-high tower will provide the centrepiece for the future of Dubai’s development, altering its skyline forever. As a focus for the city’s intermodal transport system, the project will create the most progressive mixed-use development in the world offering both functionality and lifestyle, while evolving the city’s infrastructure. The building design has been founded on the influence of Islamic tradition to produce an aspirational display for the region.

Dubai Architectural Designs, alphabetical:

Heart of Europe, ‘The World’
Design: A-CERO Architects
The World Dubai Architecture
picture from architect
Heart of Europe

The Index Building
Design: Foster + Partners
Dubai Architecture
architecture image : Foster + Partners
The Index Dubai

Iris Mist
Architects: Atkins
Iris Mist Tower
picture from architect
Iris Mist Building

Jimmy Connors WoT, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Architect: Foundation Architecture & Design
Jimmy Connors Tennis Centre & Stadium, Abu Dhabi
photo from architect
Jimmy Connors World Of Tennis

Madinat Jumeirah Buildings

Madinat Jumeirah
photo from architect
Madinat Jumeirah

Madinat Al Soor Waterfront Buildings
Design: RMJM Architects
Madinat Al Soor
architecture image from RMJM
Madinat Al Soor architecture : masterplan

Millennium Tower Building
Architects: Atkins
Millennium Tower Dubai
picture from architect
Millennium Tower

Nebula Dubai building
Design: A-CERO Architects
Nebula Dubai
picture from architect
Dubai tower – bold UAE architecture

P17 Tower
Design: Atkins
P17 Tower Dubai
picture from architect
P17 Tower Building

Palm Jumeirah Buildings
Design: various architects
Palm Jumeirah
aerial image : GHD + PTW + COX
Palm Jumeirah : macro Dubai architecture

Palm Tower – iconic architecture proposal
Architects: Sybarite
Palm Tower
render from Sybarite
Palm tower architecture

Pier 8 Tower – Dubai Marina buildings
Architects: Atkins
Pier 8 Tower
picture from architect
Dubai Marina tower : skyscraper building

Porsche Design Towers
OMA with Porsche Design Studio
Porsche Design Towers
render from architect
Porsche Design Towers Dubai

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Palm Jebel Ali
Design: Royal Haskoning Architecten
Palm Jebel Ali Dubai property development

Pentominium, Dubai Marina building
Architects: Aedas
Dubai Marina : due to be tallest residential skyscraper in the world, 516m high

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