The Alba Residences by Omniyat

The Alba Residences by Omniyat occupies a position on Palm Jumeirah, the man-made island that extends into the Arabian Gulf west of Dubai Marina. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, with interiors by YODEZEEN and landscaping by Vladimir Djurovic, it is a thirteen-residence building scheduled for completion in Q3 2028.

# A Single Building on the Palm, Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects

Thirteen residences across a single tower is a deliberate constraint. Omniyat has applied this model before on the Palm, and the effect is less apartment block than private address: a building where every floor holds very few households, and the architecture is sized accordingly.

Zaha Hadid Architects brings a formal language rooted in fluid geometry. The studio's work elsewhere in Dubai, most visibly the Opus tower in Business Bay, demonstrates how the practice handles curvature and light at residential scale. At The Alba, that sensibility sits against the Palm's low-rise, sea-facing backdrop rather than a dense urban skyline, which changes the relationship between the façade and its surroundings entirely.

Vladimir Djurovic's involvement in the landscaping is worth the context. The Beirut-based practice has shaped some of the most restrained and considered private grounds in the region. The combination of Hadid's architecture and Djurovic's ground plane is not standard for Dubai residential delivery at any price point.

# Residences: Layouts from 1,592 to 7,382 Square Feet

The thirteen units span two-bedroom, three-bedroom and four-bedroom configurations. Two-bedroom layouts start at 1,592 sq ft, priced from AED 18.225 million. Three-bedroom residences range considerably, from around 2,045 sq ft to just under 6,000 sq ft, with pricing between AED 23.37 million and AED 52.3 million, reflecting the difference in scale and presumably position within the building.

The four-bedroom residences are the building's largest homes. Two distinct four-bedroom configurations sit between 6,548 and 7,382 sq ft, priced from AED 59.27 million up to AED 77.13 million. At these footprints, these are full-floor or near-full-floor layouts by any reasonable definition.

Delivery is semi-furnished. YODEZEEN, a Kyiv-founded interior practice with a portfolio across luxury residential and hospitality, handles the specification. Kitchens are equipped. Service charges are set at AED 45 per sq ft per year.

# Wellness Facilities as a Primary Amenity

The amenity programme at The Alba is oriented almost entirely around health and recovery rather than the conventional gym-plus-pool formula. The building includes infrared saunas, cryotherapy rooms, polar plunges, negative ion hammams, electrolyte pools, and vitality wet areas alongside treatment rooms and a dedicated serenity zone.

A gut health bar and scalp and hair salon suggest the kind of offer more commonly found in a specialist urban wellness clinic than a residential building. Yoga and pilates classes, outdoor terraces and a swimming pool complete the picture.

This is a curated programme, not a long list padded out for a brochure. For buyers whose daily routines already include this kind of facility, the proposition is straightforward: the amenities come with the address.

# Palm Jumeirah: Position, Distances and Daily Practicalities

The Palm's frond and trunk road network connects directly to Sheikh Zayed Road, which puts Downtown Dubai around 29 km away. Dubai International Airport sits approximately 40 km from the island. Neither distance is unusual by the standards of a city that sprawls along a coastal highway, and the Palm's relative isolation from construction noise and through-traffic is one of its persistent practical advantages.

Closer in, Aquaventure Beach is 3.3 km away and Aquaventure Waterpark 3.7 km. Atlantis Mall, also at 3.7 km, covers the immediate retail requirement. Jumeirah International Nurseries, relevant for buyers with young children, is around 10 km.

The Palm Jumeirah monorail connects the trunk to the Gateway station, where it meets the Dubai Tram and, by transfer, the Metro red line. For residents who drive, which is most, the road layout is direct.

# Thirteen Residences: Who This Building Is For

At thirteen units, The Alba is not a building for the buyer who wants to be part of a large-scale community. It is for the buyer who already has that option and has chosen against it.

The price range, AED 18.2 million to AED 77.1 million, covers a wide bracket, but the building's scale and architect mean the floor space is priced on scarcity as much as on location. Comparable Omniyat projects on the Palm have demonstrated that low unit counts on a good address hold value differently from larger towers. That is the commercial argument. The architectural and wellness programme is the lifestyle one.

For internationally mobile buyers, the combination of Zaha Hadid Architects, a developer with a consistent ultra-prime track record, and a Palm Jumeirah address is legible across markets. Construction stands at just over 7% complete with a Q3 2028 target, placing buyers at an early stage of the development cycle.