WATERFRONT CITY, UAE, DUBAI, 2008

New city for 1.5 million inhabitants on the border of Dubai and Abu Dhabi

Waterfront City in Dubai is a masterplan of possibly unprecedented scale and ambition, aiming to generate a critical mass of density and diversity in a city that has seen explosive growth in recent years but little cultivation of the street-level urban activity that most metropolises thrive on. The development consists of an artificial Island linked to four distinct neighbourhoods – Madinat Al Soor, the Boulevard, the Marina, and the Resorts – which together are twice the size of Hong Kong Island and yield a total floor space of 11.8 million m2 across various building types and programs. The masterplan takes an optimistic view of the future of urbanism and exploits two usually opposing elements of 21st century architecture: the generic and the iconic.
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FACT SHEET

Status:
Under construction

Client:
Frank Konings for Nakheel Properties

Location:
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Site:
Adacent to Palm, on the border of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, next to new airport

Program:
Mixed Use Masterplan

COLLABORATORS

Renderings:
MaiaMato, Modelcraft

Landscape:
Inside Outside, Verdaus

Structure Consultant (Icons):
Arup

Traffic consultant:
Africon
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CREDITS

Partners in charge:
Reinier de Graaf, Rem Koolhaas

Director Operations:
Iyad Alsaka

Associate:
Richard Hollington III

Project Manager:
Barend Koolhaas

Team
Phase 1:
Adam Frampton, Alexandria Algard, Andreas Kofler, Chun Yue Chiu, Francesco Moncada, Jimenez Lai, Joana Da Rocha Sa Lima, Jung Hwan Park, Kengo Skorick, Lorenzo Marasso, Luca Astorri, Marianna Rentzou, Marie Wastiau, Pieter Janssens, Ravi Kamisetti, Samir El Kordy, Santiago del Hierro, Silvia Sandor, Soren Martinussen, Stephanie Edwards

Phase 2:
Adam Frampton, Ahmed Tawakol, Alexander Giarlis, Andreas Kofler, Anne-Sophie Bernard, Anne Madsbjerg, Charles-Antoine Perreault, Christopher Parkes, Chun Yue Chiu, Francesco Moncada, Guilherme de Bivar, Hannes Gutberlet, Luis Felipe Abbud, Marianna Rentzou, Martin Hejl, Nancy Chidiac, Pieter Janssens, Ravi Kamisetti, Remy Turquin, Samir El Kordy, Silvia Sandor, Stephanie Edwards

PRESS

New York Times, 3 March 2008
Architectural Record, 12 March 2008
New York Times Magazine, 7 June 2008