UAE

Portside Square

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Project Brief

A mixed-use waterfront development in Mina Rashid that prioritizes sea and skyline views while integrating residential, office, and amenity functions.

The project brings together three residential towers, an office building, and shared facilities arranged on a terraced podium with a central public plaza connecting them to the maritime context.

The design is shaped by a view-driven masterplan defined through orientation, contrast, and human experience. Three organic residential towers are carefully positioned and sculpted to capture panoramic sea and Downtown Dubai views, while a faceted prism-like office building anchors the site through a sharper geometric expression. At the center of the development, a sculpted amenities hub extends the office building’s architectural language, working together with the terraced podium to blur indoor and outdoor boundaries and open toward a lively public plaza that connects residents, office users, and visitors. Together, landscape, architecture, and maritime-inspired interiors create a cohesive waterfront environment where geometry, community, and coastal life intersect.​

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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team

  • Team

    • Khaled Alshamaa

      Founder & Principal

    • Hamdi Adam

      Founder & Managing Director

    • Ahmad Feras Arar

      Project Management Director

    • Ahmed Saqr

      Project Manager

    • Khalid Telfah

      Associate Senior Architect

    • Tarek Daker

      ID Director / AWD - Founder & Director

    • Mohamed Hesham

      Structural Design Manager

    • Fadi Bitar

      Design Manager | Interior Design

    • Sohaila Elazhary

      BIM Practice Manager | ID

    • Samar Dahdouh

      Concept & Creative Lead / AWD - Managing Partner & Creative Director

    • Ammar Faroug Mohamed

      BIM Manager

    • Ahmed Hosieny

      Technical Manager

    • Khaled Ismael

      MEP Manager

    • Myca Yutuc

      FF & E Manager

    • Mohab Yassin Mohamed Yassin

      Associate Technical Design Manager

    • Basel Rafat Mohamed Ahmed Badawy

      Technical Architect

    • Al Hussein Ben Aly

      Design Architect

    • Abdul Shaloof

      Design Architect

    • Myka Angela Francisco Luna

      Senior Interior Designer

    • Marwa Shawky Mohamed Abdelghaffar

      Interior Architect

  • Sub-consultants

    • BH.NS Engineering Consultants

      AOR CONSULTANT

    • EMS Engineering Consultants

      STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT

    • SEED Engineering Consultancy

      MEP CONSULTANT

    • WAHO Landscape Architecture

      LANDSCAPE ARCHTIECT

    • Profire Safety Consultants

      FLS CONSULTANT

    • IBECE Group

      FAÇADE CONSULTANTS

    • PAPL Corp

      VERTICAL CONSULTANT

    • RMC

      TRAFFIC IMPACT STUDY CONSULTANT

    • LET Design

      LIGHTNING CONSULTANT

    • DSP

      ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT

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