Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning studio RCR Arquitectes has revealed its design for the 380-metre-high Muraba Veil skyscraper in downtown Dubai, which will only be one apartment wide.
Set to be built alongside Dubai's main highway and the Dubai Canal, the skyscraper will have a unique form with a wide main facade and only a 22.5-metre width. Described as "unusually narrow" by the team, the skyscraper's form was designed to grab people's attention.
The Muraba Veil skyscraper has been unveiled in Dubai
"Awe-inspiring yet understated, Muraba Veil rises from the dunes above the UAE's most cosmopolitan and future-facing city, presenting a daring, stop-you-in-your tracks spectacle, even in Dubai's supercharged architectural vista," said the team. "The structure, whose unusually narrow profile and appearance could only be achieved by the very latest design and engineering, is inspired by a domestic architecture that is centuries old, traditionally seeking to meet basic human needs for refuge, security, privacy and a close connection to nature."
The apartments will be arranged around courtyards
Designed by Spanish studio RCR Arquitectes for Dubai-based developer Muraba, the 73-storey skyscraper will contain 131 apartments that all span the width of the building, giving them views in both directions.
Alongside the apartments, the tower will contain a spa, restaurant, art gallery, padel court, meeting rooms, a private cinema and a "dune-like"...