Business Bay · Omniyat Properties
Photos and renders of the building and grounds — not of this particular unit.
22-storey mixed-use complex in Business Bay, completed in 2017. Developer — Omniyat Properties. Architect — Zaha Hadid Architects.
The Opus is a 22-storey mixed-use complex in Business Bay, completed in 2017.
The developer is Omniyat Properties. The architecture is by Zaha Hadid Architects.
The database currently holds 4 lots in this project, from 3 300 000 AED.
The only Zaha Hadid building in Dubai: residences, offices, a hotel and restaurants in a single volume with a "void" at its centre.
The Opus by OMNIYAT was designed by Zaha Hadid — per the developer's Russian-language brochure, it's a mixed-use building: residences, office space, a hotel, boutiques and restaurants in a single volume, in the same design lineage as Hadid's other landmark cultural buildings worldwide, from Baku's Heydar Aliyev Center to Guangzhou's Opera House — an architectural statement first, a real-estate product second.
The location is between Burj Khalifa and Dubai Mall, in Business Bay. Next door, in the same OMNIYAT cluster, stands The Binary — two connected towers of 21 and 24 storeys; that's a separate project, not part of Opus.
As the story of the design goes, Zaha Hadid started from the image of a melting ice cube — hence the cube with a void carved out of it. The building was completed after the architect's death in 2016.
The Opus features in ArchDaily's selections of Dubai's most notable buildings — for a signature building, that is part of its resale value.
Building composition, Zaha Hadid's authorship and location — the developer's Russian-language brochure for The Opus Residences; parameters of the neighbouring The Binary — from a separate document by the same developer. Design concept and completion after the architect's death — roundup of Dubai architecture based on ArchDaily, October 2023.
Omniyat Properties. The architecture is by Zaha Hadid Architects.
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Yes, the building was handed over in 2017. This is ready housing: you can move in or let it out right after the deal.
Business Bay. The canal district next to Downtown: conceived as offices, built mostly as apartments, now one of the most tenanted parts of the city.
The database currently holds 4 lots in this project, from 3 300 000 AED. The list changes daily — I will send a fresh selection for the building on request.
Shops, Restaurants, Park and landscaping. The list comes from the project description and covers the whole complex.
What has been written about the building, its developer and Business Bay
SOM designed Burj Khalifa and a 74-metre metro station in Creek Harbour that will be the tallest in the world. Zaha Hadid Architects built The Opus and is now building Oystra in Ras Al Khaimah. What separates a real premium from a marketing line.
A cube with a living form carved out of its centre — Zaha Hadid’s last Dubai project, where her practice designed both the exterior and the interiors of the ME Dubai hotel. How an architectural statement works on the value of the district around it.
ValuStrat's Dubai index for September 2026 stood at 218.6, down 0.1% on the month and 4.5% on the year. 80% of villa and 77% of apartment communities saw no change. Off-plan took 70.3% of sales, led by Majan and JVC.
Berkeley Tower is Ellington Properties' AED 2.8 billion office tower in Business Bay: 60 floors above ground, 109 offices, an indicative AED 4,300–4,800 per sq ft, a 70/30 payment plan and handover in Q3 2030.
A shell and core office comes without floors, ceilings or partitions. It is cheaper than a fitted unit, but in our Business Bay model a 1,550 sq ft office needed AED 620,000 of fit-out, about AED 400 per sq ft, and 4–6 months without a tenant.
Dubai’s tallest completed residential tower is Princess Tower: 414 metres, 101 floors, 2013. Seven of the top ten stand in Dubai Marina. Taller ones are rising: Burj Binghatti Jacob & Co at 557 m, Tiger Sky Tower at 532 m, Six Senses Marina at 517 m.
Selling before handover returns 25% on capital if prices rise 10% and you have paid 40%. Renting pays 5.5–6.5% net every year. Flipping a villa: buy at AED 12.5m, spend 3m, sell from 19m. Three Dubai strategies compared on cash, time and risk.
Five mistakes Dubai property investors repeat: trusting the 8% listing yield when the net is 6.7%, comparing prices instead of payment plans, buying the district not the building, entering with no exit plan, and believing a guaranteed 7%.
Business Bay recorded 14 prime transactions in August 2026 against Palm Jumeirah's 10 — while Dubai-wide transaction volume fell 37% year-on-year and value fell 44%. Rental search demand rose 44% over the same period. What these seemingly contradictory numbers actually mean.
I will send the available layouts, the real entry price and what owners and tenants actually say about the building — without the brochure language.
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