“In its ineffable slenderness,the Veil exerts only afleeting impact on theskyline, a thin membranewhich echoes the finelayers of its facade.”Edwin Heathcote, Architecture & Design Critic, Financial Times
Introduction
1. The influences
Shaped by place
Shaped by nature
Shaped by culture
2. The concept
From the desert
The transversal space
Behind the veil
Oasis in the sky
Oasis in the ground
3. The architect
RCR Arquitectes
by Edwin Heathcote
4. The patron
Muraba Properties
Introducing Muraba Veil—a new icon rising 380 meters above Dubai’s skyline. Defined by architectural clarity and elevated restraint, it’s a project designed not to impress loudly, but to resonate deeply. With just 131 ultra-private residences, Muraba Veil offers a rare combination of scale, space, and serenity in the heart of the city.
Every residence embraces dual perspectives: the ever-changing waters of the Arabian Gulf and the iconic silhouette of the Burj Khalifa Districg. Soaring ceiling heights (from 3.2m to 7.65m) frame living spaces flooded with natural light, expressing a calm, meditative atmosphere.
Key Details:
• Starting from AED 13M
• Only 131 residences
• Tower height: 380 meters over 73 floors
• Ceiling heights from 3.2m to 7.65m
• Completion: Q4 2028
• Freehold ownership
• Spectacular dual-aspect views: Arabian Gulf + Burj Khalifa
Muraba Veil is a building born of the desert.
It rises from the dunes with nature fully in its grasp, up into the sky above the UAE’s most cosmopolitan and future- facing city, and conjures a sanctuary of fresh water and lush vegetation on every floor. A shimmering tower, awe-inspiring yet understated, the building presents a daring, stop-you-in-your tracks spectacle, even in Dubai’s supercharged architectural vista – a structure whose profile and appearance could only be achieved by the very latest design and engineering.
And yet the influences and aspirations that shaped the Veil have their origins in domestic architecture that is centuries old, and which sought to meet basic human needs for refuge, security, privacy and a close connection to nature.
The Veil is a sanctuary for this place and this time. It offers the opportunity to live a serene, private, perhaps meditative existence floating high above the city, where the sense of space and freedom is extended by terraces of draped greenery and dappled shade on either side of the main, uninterrupted living space, to the sky beyond.
This is less a place to live; more, somewhere to experience a unique personal universe. A retreat from the instant, the material and virtual, this private world is conceived as an oasis for the mind as well as the body: where senses are heightened and time slows; where even the simplest, soothing sensations – stepping into a pool, the evening light through foliage – raise the spirits and still the mind.
Wherever one goes in the Veil, the impression is of being simultaneously swathed and shielded from external heat and commotion, and liberated by space. It’s as true of the deep, high, wide rooms and terraces of individual residences as it is of the Veil’s other world, the cavernous subterranean spa, restaurant, lounges, ‘oasis’ and amphitheatre, hidden beneath a vast dune-like carapace at the foot of the tower.
This is the Veil, seen and not seen.
