The AED 2.3 billion ($626 million) Palazzo Versace Dubai located on the banks of the historical Dubai creek is making progress with its construction, and is now 80% complete.
The Palazzo Versace Dubai, is a 4.3 hectare development by Emirates Sunland Group and Versace. It is expected to be one of Dubai’s most outstanding hotel and residential resorts, providing a collection of 169 private residences and 213 super-luxury hotel suites, with a range of furniture and furnishings all exclusively designed by Versace for the hotel and condominiums.
Palazzo Versace will feature several dining experiences including its renowned Vanitas – fine dining restaurant. Leisure facilities will include a health spa, gymnasium, ballroom and convention facilities and Versace boutique, all set in landscaped grounds.
The building’s design reflects world-famous palace layouts with the central area allocated for the hotel facilities and the Ala Sinistra and Ala Destra – the left and right wings – for the private condominiums. Internally intricate mosaic tiles are now being laid and classically designed plasterboard installed, while externally complex concrete cladding is being attached to the building. The high level of design detail to ensure the interiors reflect the elegance of the 170,000 square metre palace is now well underway. Internal walls and lining are continuing with framing works now on level six. The moulding installation is currently on level four and the final touches on the walls and ceiling are underway on level three.
The stone floors are being installed on levels two and three with regular deliveries of stone arriving from Italy ensuring the teams continue to keep pace with the lining trades. All the windows are being installed across the condominiums and façade painting is now underway on the creek side. Painting works are commencing from level eight downwards, with scaffolding being dismantled as the works are complete. The external condominium hoist has also now been removed and all vertical man and material movement is taking place within the permanent lifts inside the building.
More than 100 specialists from around the world have been recruited to a special United Arab Emirates (UAE) based studio and workshop to produce the beautiful detailed mosaics and intricately patterned stone work, that will adorn the driveway, public area floors and walls, the spa, private residences’, the bathrooms and private swimming pools. The designer residences and hotel suites are set within one of Dubai’s waterside addresses, with uninterrupted views of the historical creek.
Emirates Sunland Group is building Palazzo Versace under a joint venture agreement with the Middle East’s builder Arabtec, who was also responsible for the iconic Burj al Arab in Dubai. Emirates Sunland Group is a 50:50 partnership between UAE-based Emirates International Holdings and Australian-based Sunland Group Limited.
