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RMJM is to design the Madinat Al Soor, a sustainable pedestrian city for approximately 22,000 residents – at Nakheel’s Waterfront in Dubai.
Spread over one million sq m, Madinat Al Soor is part of Waterfront City, jointly masterplanned by Nakheel and the Rotterdam-based Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and forming the centrepiece of the Waterfront project.
Waterfront City is composed of Madinat Al Soor, the Island, the Boulevard, the Resort and the Marina, and will be twice the size of Hong Kong island. Located at the harbour entrance to Waterfront City, Madinat Al Soor, which means ‘City of the Wall’, will include residences, suqs, hotels, as well as civic and cultural facilities. The project is led in partnership from both RMJM’s New York and Dubai offices.
“Madinat Al Soor will tie together the best elements of the ‘Old Dubai’ and the ‘New Dubai’,” comments RMJM’s New York-based design studio director Steven Gifford. “It will be livable, walkable and sustainable.”
Waterfront City aims to transform 1.4 billion sq ft of desert and sea into an international community for an estimated population of 1.5 million people.
