id50 2025 – ANARCHITECT

What are the latest exciting projects that you are working on that will come to life in the near future?

ANARCHITECT currently has projects in final stages of construction across multiple countries:

 – A curated private duplex interior in the Lana Residences, Dorchester Collection in Dubai with skyline views of Burj Khalifa has just been handed over to the client. Featuring selective upgrades of accent finishes, lighting and joinery, sitting alongside a highly-edited collection of furniture and playful art objects, they transcend and create a new distinct character for the residence.

– A new-build, private home for a multi-generational family on a leafy hillside overlooking Uganda’s capital; Kampala is in its final stages of construction. Once finished, the contextual-modernist African property will interlock four distinct outdoor spaces, each with its own character and function for the family to use throughout the day and into the evening. ANARCHITECT is responsible for architecture and interiors of this superb African contemporary property.

– The restoration, renovation and regeneration of a 1926 urban villa, into a contemporary-sensitive family residence, in the heart of the bohemian quarter in Belgrade is in its final stages. ANARCHITECT is responsible for regeneration, interior architecture and interiors of this historical property.

–  Exciting construction is underway for a forty-five key hillside beach and wellness resort on the eastern coast of the UAE.

– Two brand new contemporary high-end Villa’s sitting side-by-side in Dubai Hills are in the final stages of construction. Designed and planned to be cohesive yet individual, once complete, they will overlook the golf course with a signature Dubai skyline view in the distance.

Please mention some of your latest projects/ achievements as a firm (Top 3)

• Blue Copper Loft, Private residential project, Dubai – Winner of Identity Magazine Award for Residential Interior Design 2024

This recently completed explorative private residence transformed into an ‘urbane-sanctum‘ in Dubai by ANARCHITECT for a modern-nomadic client. Once a three-bedroom penthouse, the property has been reimagined into an open duplex loft with a single gallery bedroom. The client’s unusual brief inspired the practice to reconfigure the internal planning by disseminating and defining each subsequent functional space through a rigorous design-exploration. A curated palette of natural and hand-crafted materials with refined junctions and interface details express each threshold of the new layouts’ spatial transition. This project explores the open ideas of modern living and the break-down of ‘traditional spaces’ without losing the emotional and subconscious connections of home.

Blue Copper Loft Photography Ieva Saudargaite

• Desert Villas at Bab Al Shams Resort, Dubai, A Rare Finds Desert Resort

A collection of 8 unique desert pool villas that challenge luxury hospitality within the UAE’s iconic landscape. A progressive architectural concept created by ANARCHITECT offers a seamless blend of natural surroundings and modern luxury hospitality, making for a contemporary addition for the renowned desert retreat. Each villa, situated within its own private dune, serves as a gateway to a coveted experience of the desert, where guests are enveloped in the serene embrace of an oasis. ANARCHITECT designed the chalets to be omnidirectional, ensuring a harmonious integration with the landscape from every angle. Inspired by the authentic Bedouin lifestyle, the design reinterprets traditional elements into a contemporary form.

• The Serai Wing, Chedi Al Bait Hotel, Sharjah

This award-winning project is a sensuous hotel collection of private rooms and suites located in the Heart of Sharjah. The reimagined heritage property comprises two 1950’s family houses, once the homes of pearl merchant Khaled bin Ibrahim. It is an inner-city sanctuary to immerse oneself in, a retreat conceived to protect the authenticity and culture within an important historical area of the UAE.

The hotel is a continuation of ANARCHITECT’s synonymous destination hospitality projects and our sustainable interest in re-purposing and reimaging existing buildings through adaptive-reuse. The project further affirms the practice’s progressive approach towards introducing new interventions into or onto the historical framework of existing structures that are in contrast; a contemporary addition that communicates the presence of the transformation as a layered visual narrative and celebrates the rebirth of the building and its new lease of life.

How would you describe your ‘house style’ and design philosophy?

Based in Dubai and London, ANARCHITECT manifests modern architecture across diverse scales of design with superlative detail and contextual materiality. The studio’s architectural narrative is practiced with equal measure across the disciplines of architecture, interiors and design to create highly resolved buildings, spaces and objects beautifully balanced in form, function and refined execution.  The philosophy embodies passion, intrigue and rigor, fundamental to their globally influenced yet locally-rooted approach that has enabled ANARCHITECT to design and deliver award-winning and industry-recognized built projects across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Rather than a ‘house style’, through a holistic approach to buildings, interiors and design objects, the practice’s cohesive architectural narrative emotionally connects their work to a physical place, a context and a moment in time. This process grounds ANARCHITECT’s avant-garde work which is derived from a series of unique project influences (typology, climate, culture, materials and clients) that when distilled, these combined parameters form the base line for each and every new project. This results in an architecture where no two buildings or spaces are ever the same and therefore positively contributes and preserves the identity or movement of a locality from which it was derived.

As this is the power issue, what empowers you and your team?

At ANARCHITECT, what inspires us most is the challenge of transforming abstract visions into meaningful, tangible realities. We view design as a powerful pathway between ideas and the physical world, where creativity meets responsibility. Every project is an opportunity to solve complex problems while making thoughtful predictions about the future — creating solutions today that will have a lasting positive impact.

Our Team thrives collaboratively creating contextually modern, one-of-a-kind pieces of design – residential properties which are refined, elegant and modern, commercial spaces which foster international business and idea exchange; and hospitality projects pioneering destination architecture and interiors.

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