A super-thin skyscraper 70 metres taller than the Shard but the width of just one apartment is set to be built in Dubai.
Details of the Muraba Veil apartment block were unveiled last week, showing how it will be 380 metres high but only 22.5 metres wide.
The distinctive building will take a prime spot between Jumeirah and Downtown overlooking the Dubai Water Canal, looking oddly one dimensional among more typically designed structures.
Skyscrapers often get given a nickname, with those in London better known as the Gherkin, the Cheesegrater and the Walkie Talkie than whatever their actual names are.
With that in mind, we’d like to get in early and name this one The Ruler.
Artists’ impressions from inside the skyscraper show how developers are aiming for a super lux feel, with greenery and water everywhere and even an ‘underground oasis’.
Potential residents will have to pay well for the privilege though, with the cheapest apartment starting around £3.78 million.
Let’s take a look inside…
And how it looks from the outside…
The skyscraper is designed to have a ‘veil,’ which is a porous reflective mesh made of stainless steel wrapping around the whole building.
Changing how it looks in different light conditions, it will also provide shade and let natural light filter in, cooling it naturally.
It is set to be completed by 2028, including 131 flats between two and four bedrooms, as well as a five-bedroom penthouse, spread over 73 stories.
Each apartment will span the whole width of the building, even if another flat may take the other side of the floor.
While it will be one of the tallest skyscrapers (though still nowhere near the 828m Burj Khalifa), it will also be one of the skinniest, only wider than the 18m-wide ‘world’s thinnest skyscraper’ Steinway Tower in New York.
Developers have called the Muraba Veil a ‘villa above the clouds’, saying it is ‘a building born of the desert’ which ‘rises from the dunes to conjure a private sanctuary of space, fresh water and lush vegetation on every floor’.
The project, a collaboration between Dubai-based developer Muraba and Spanish firm RCR Arqitectes, takes inspiration from traditional local architecture, with each individual apartment arranged around an ‘Arab courtyard reimagined’.
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