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Marina West is Bahrain’s largest gated beachfront residential and lifestyle community set in the idyllic surroundings of the Kingdom’s west coast. The development will comprise 11 thoughtfully designed towers that will encircle the 75,000 square-metre community. It will boast a fully comprehensive range of lifestyle and leisure facilities and approximately 1,280 luxurious 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedroom apartments (duplexes, simplexes, penthouse suites). A full range of leisure, recreation and entertainment facilities will include a number of tennis courts, swimming pools and children’s play areas. High quality retail and lifestyle attractions will consist of a private beach, a marina (provision), a fitness centre, and numerous cafes and restaurants. |
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The Blue City is the most visionary urban and lifestyle development in the region and the largest to have moved from concept to construction and implementation within a 12 month period. When finished, the Blue City will embrace 32 square kilometres at Al Sawadi on the Omani coast. The estimated construction cost is $25 billion and the anticipated timescale is 10 to 15 years, according to market demand. It is situated 25 minutes' drive from the airport and will house around 250,000 inhabitants. The Blue City will have the capacity, together with its surrounding areas, to absorb and serve up to two million tourists a year. |
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Nothing like Bahrain Financial Harbour currently exists in the region. It is a national project and a model for the future providing a highly technological, regional specialist banking and finance centre integrated with a major urban retail and leisure complex on a site of some 41 hectares. The site has significant impact, being literally at the 'gate' to Bahrain, the 'Bab Al Bahrain'. It links the seafaring tradition of the Kingdom with the heart of the old Manama souk, forming a striking contrasts between old and new. The foundation stone for Bahrain Financial Harbour was laid in December 2002, paving the way for the creation of a vibrant environment that will bring dynamism and excitement to the landscape in an ordered way, a breathtaking development that invites exploration. It will include: Bahrain Financial Harbour |
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This 45m tower is designed to express the essence of flight and its past, present and future, conveying the economic development of Bahrain as a statement of the Kingdom's readiness to meet the challenges of the new millennium. An additional dimension is conveyed through the resemblance of the tower to a sail, a symbol of this island nation's seafaring traditions stretching back long before the dawn of aviation. Special features include: |
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Taib Bank is an investment bank with eight offices in six countries, headquartered in Bahrain. The Bank wished to build its own head office and the architectural challenge was to design a building that would work on a very tight site constrained on three sides by tall high rises. Due to the natural climate in Bahrain energy efficient design is essential and a client priority. This was achieved through a perfectly developed glazing solution that made use of the minimal direct sunlight from the North by utilizing a curved, glazed facade. The result is a dynamic, slender signature tower with wide stunning views across the Arabian Gulf. Special features of the US$10 million Taib Bank building include: |
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The brief for this private villa called for a traditional courtyard house with swimming pool that would not be overlooked by neighbouring tower blocks. The solution was to incorporate the pool, with integral circular Jacuzzi, at heart of the building under a stained glass skylight. Other features included traditional carved Bahraini doors and exterior panels, giving the house a highly individual and yet intrinsically Bahraini feel. |
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Al A'Ali Shopping Complex in Bahrain's Seef District is one of the country's largest malls with a built up area of some 28,000 sq. m. It is also the most striking architecturally, employing traditional styles from different parts of Arabia blended with modern architecture to form a truly unique and quite beautiful shopping environment. It includes 270 single shop units, a department store and open car parking for 700 cars. It was completed within the contractual 1 and 1/2-year period. Special features of the US$24 million project include: |
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This highly attractive shopping mall is situated in one of Manama's busiest streets. The site itself was fairly narrow and 150 shop units were accommodated on the ground floor and three upper levels of a single wing with a covered area of 26,000sq.m. Imaginative use of stained glass, tiling, carved gypsum and a glazed, domed roof make this US$23.5 million project easily one of Bahrain's most distinctive shopping centres. Special features include: |
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Centre for Applied Research and Training (CERT), Abu Dhabi CERT was a closed competition for selected international consultants to seek concepts for a City of Science and Technology to mark the new millennium. AJA was successful with a linear concept incorporating a monorail system that links the six institute elements with a landmark tower providing centralised amenities and facilities for the whole development, as well as housing CERT administration, strategic partnerships and business incubators. The proposed features include: |
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Research and development form an essential and important element, thorugh which new concepts, ideas and visions are formulated and created using state of the art techniques and methods. Substancial time and effort is placed on developing unique and inspirational concepts that embody the design philosohpy and attitudea of AJA. A wide range of research techniques are incorporated into this process from utalising the comprehensive company libary to develoopnig in depth case studies and through interaction with our many professional associates. |
