The Most Beautiful Homes in Dubai

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Introductory words by Maimoona Basharat

The most beautiful homes in Dubai are redefining luxury living; with each embodying a unique fusion of design, heritage, and opulence.

AD explores some of the city's captivating abodes, where light filters through perforated fa?ades, ancient traditions harmonise with contemporary comforts, and panoramic vistas embrace urban vibrancy.

This Modernist Dubai Home Is Reimagining Concepts of Privacy in the Arab Home

Words by Amy Bradford

Dubai has its fair share of ultra-luxurious houses; but when it comes to a modernist Dubai home, no one seems to do it better than Syrian interior designer Hana Hakim.

Founder of Melbourne-based practice The Stella Collective , Hakim has always admired the UAE’s Modernist and Brutalist buildings. “I’ve been travelling to Dubai since the 1990s, and became so enamoured by the architecture that was constructed after the discovery of oil,” she enthuses

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This Dubai Home Is Inspired by the Arabian Desert

Words by Karine MONIE

Three years in the making, this nature-inspired contemporary Dubai home is monumental in every sense of the word.

“We’ve known the client for many years and have worked with them, and their wider family, on several commercial and residential projects prior to this one,” says Omar Nakkash of Nakkash Design Studio about the homeowners, a young Emirati couple.

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This Vastu Compliant Dubai Home Is the Epitome of Harmony and Tranquility

Words by Karine MONIE

“We wanted to create a house that is true to its context,” says Deepak Gugarii , founder of Studio VDGA, of this monumental Vastu compliant home in Dubai.

The architect and his team – based in Pune, India – worked closely with owners Vinod and Suvarna Jadhav to formulate a design that reflects their Indian heritage and the architectural vernacular of the UAE, their adopted home for the past decade.

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