UAE

Portside Square

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Project Brief

A mixed-use waterfront development in Mina Rashid shaped by a view-driven masterplan that prioritizes sea and skyline vistas while unifying residences, office spaces, and public life.

The project brings together three residential towers, an office building, and shared amenities on a terraced podium. At its heart, a public plaza connects community, landscape, and the surrounding maritime setting.​

The design responds with a view-driven masterplan shaped by orientation, contrast, and connection. Three organic residential towers are carefully positioned and sculpted to capture panoramic sea and Downtown vistas, while a faceted, prism-like office building anchors the site with a sharper urban presence. At the center, a sculpted amenities hub and terraced podium extend this architectural language, blurring indoor and outdoor boundaries and opening toward a lively public plaza. Together, landscape, architecture, and maritime-inspired interiors form a cohesive waterfront experience — a dynamic yet grounded landmark where geometry, community, and coastal life converge.

Project Info

Design Development

Sculpted volumes oriented to the sea and skyline are unified by flowing podiums and a central public plaza.​

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The office and amenities buildings are introduced together as sculpted, faceted volumes, establishing a shared architectural language. This coordinated move reinforces the office’s contrasting identity while allowing it's prism-like expression to extend into the amenities, creating continuity across the development.​

Terraces descend from the residential buildings into the layered podiums, extending across both the residential and office zones. By carrying the same architectural language through these terraces and podium levels, the design creates a continuous sequence of outdoor spaces that links architecture, landscape, and circulation, visually and spatially unifying the entire development while reinforcing the central plaza as the communal heart.​

The office building forms a faceted prism, with sculpted voids and terraces that create light, transparency, and a landmark waterfront presence.​

The layered amenities building opens to the central plaza, connecting lobby, gym, kids’ club, and clubhouse with seamless indoor–outdoor flow at the heart of the development.​

“The architecture breathes with the life of the residents. Terraces, podiums, and interiors unfold as a series of experiences, revealing views, geometry, and communal moments at every step. The landmark is not just a form—it emerges through movement, connection, and the rhythms of daily life.”​ ​

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Hussein Benaly

Design Architect

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team

  • Team

    • Khaled Al Shamaa

      Director

    • Hamdi Adam

      Managing Director

    • Ahmad Feras Arar

      Head of Project Manager

    • Khalid Telfah

      Sr. Design Architect

    • Ahmad Tarek Daker

      ID Design Manager

    • Mohamed Hesham

      Structural Design Manager

    • Fadi Bitar

      Design Manager

    • Sohaila Elazhary

      BIM Technical Lead

    • Samar Dahdouh

      Sr. Interior Designer

    • Ammar Faroug Mohamed

      BIM Manager

    • Ahmed Hosieny

      Technical Manager

    • Khaled Ismael

      MEP Manager

    • Myca Yutuc

      FF & E Manager

    • Mohab Yassin Mohamed Yassin

      Sr. Technical Architect

    • Basel Rafat Mohamed Ahmed Badawy

      Technical Architect

    • Al Hussein Ben Aly

      Design Architect

    • Abdul Shaloof

      Design Architect

    • Myka Angela Francisco Luna

      Sr. Interior Designer

    • Marwa Shawky Mohamed Abdelghaffar

      Interior Designer

  • Sub-consultants

    • BH.NS ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS

      AOR CONSULTANT

    • EMS ENGINEERING

      STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT

    • SEED ENGINEERING CONSULTANT

      MEP CONSULTANT

    • WAHO LANDSCPAE ARCHITECT

      LANDSCAPE ARCHTIECT

    • PROFIRE SAFETY CONSULTANTS

      FLS CONSULTANT

    • IBECE GROUP

      FAÇADE CONSULTANTS

    • PAPL

      VERTICAL CONSULTANT

    • RMC

      TRAFFIC IMPACT STUDY CONSULTANT

    • LET DESIGN

      LIGHTNING CONSULTANT

    • DSP

      ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT

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