Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) is celebrating the exterior completion of Opus, the Omiyat mixed-used development in Dubai. Found in the vicinity of the city’s Burj Khalifa district, the Opus building offers a strking new view from every angle, appearing t...
Photography: Laurian GhinitoiuPhotography: Laurian GhinitoiuArchitects is celebrating the exterior completion of Opus, the Omiyat mixed-used development in Dubai. Found in the vicinity of the city’s Burj Khalifa district, the Opus building offers a strking new view from every angle, appearing to morph and shift within its own abstract cube outline.
A central free-form void defines the overall building’s shape, dividing it into two towers. The four storey atrium at ground level marks the start of the two towers’ upward journey. After that, they separate, twisting poetically as if they had been pulled apart. They’ll meet again at 71m, where an asymmetric, 38m-wide, three-storey bridge connects them on the structure’s one side.While organic and soft, the building’s form feels futuristic, which is accentuated by its glimmering glass facade.
Mahdi Amjad, Omiyat’s executive chairman and CEO is pleased: ‘The design conveys the remarkably inventive quality of ZHA’s work; expressing a sculptural sensibility that reinvents the balance between solid and void, opaque and transparent, interior and exterior.’ In 2020, the Opus Dubai will open officially to guests of the ME by Melia hotel – which, if it is anything like the practice’s
that completed in 2018, is certainly set to enthrall. And with 12 restaurants, a rooftop bar and 56,000 sq ft of office space inside it, the building will no doubt become a new attraction for Dubai. §
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