ESTD 1993 · Dubailand, Dubai

A life, well read.

The Archive by Imtiaz — a residence built around a library, not a lobby.

AED 666,000

Starting from

Q3 2028

Handover

50 / 50

Payment plan

Chapter OneI

A Life, Well Read

The Archive is not a building that keeps books. It is a way of living arranged around reading, where the quiet hours are the ones that count. Most homes measure the view. This one, how far a chapter takes you.

It is built for a certain kind of attention: the ones who read past midnight, who go far into one thing rather than briefly across many.

Chapter TwoII

A Short Passage

A library is only as useful as its reach. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road opens at your door like a first chapter. Downtown Dubai, minutes beyond that. The airport in twenty. From here, every part of the city is a short passage away.

Within a short drive: the largest library in the region, the district where Dubai designs its ideas, the campuses where the next generation is taught, and the towers where the work gets done. This is not the edge of the city; it is the middle of everything worth reaching, and all of it sits inside twenty minutes.

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Upcoming metro station on Emirates Road

Distances, read in minutes

Dubai Academic City5 min
Dubai Outlet Mall5 min
Dubai Silicon Mall5 min
IMG Worlds of Adventure10 min
Global Village10 min
Mohammed Bin Rashid Library15 min
The Dubai Mall20 min
Culture Village20 min
Dubai Creek Harbour20 min
Dubai Design District (d3)20 min
Dubai International Airport20 min

Chapter ThreeIII

Come Home Through a Library

The Library

You do not arrive through a lobby. Two storeys of shelves rise from the ground floor, wrapped by a spiral stair. Ten thousand books, a real collection meant to be read, not admired. Most residents mean only to pass through. Most stop.

10,000

Books

Storeys of shelves

The Gym

A gym set beneath a lattice of gold and glass, where movement and thought exist side by side. Treadmills face the skyline, curtained off like a page you'd turn to on purpose. Brick and timber set the tone, shaped by Imtiaz's Raw Theory health philosophy.

The Pool

The water holds still long enough to catch the whole city in it. A chair, a shaded corner, nothing asking to be finished by a certain hour. Even up here, the pace stays exactly the one you brought with you.

Chapter FourIV

A Room That Reads You Back

Every residence assumes you own books, and intend to own more. A shelf waits for the collection. A reading lamp is fixed exactly where your hand already reaches. A deep chair sits where the room goes dark and the skyline arrives in the glass.

The Writer's Room

Not every thought needs an audience. Off the library, a smaller room holds a desk, a door that closes properly, and nothing else asking for attention. Some residents will read here. A few will finally write something.

The Reading Lounge

A Reading Lounge for solitude that asks nothing of you, built for company of one, or two, where the quiet doesn't need explaining. Close enough to the library so that nothing has to be carried far. Some residents come here to finish a chapter. Others, just to sit somewhere quiet.

The Reading Salon

On the roof, a Reading Salon for the guest you bring: fireplace, deep seating, and the kind of quiet that makes people have a deep conversation. Outside, a firepit and water feature for the cool months, when the company matters more than the page.

Chapter FiveV

The Outdoors, Read Slowly

Everything, Slowed Down

At the top of the building, the garden continues: a rooftop terrace, a barbecue lounge for the nights guests stay late, and an outdoor cinema for the evenings a screen earns its place outside. Slow is the rarest thing a city like this has to offer. Here, it's the default.

A lush garden runs the length of the ground level, with lounges built for reading outdoors when the light allows it. Floating cabanas sit over a shallow water feature, for the kind of afternoon that has nowhere else to be. Beyond them, a stretch of grass and a mini golf course for the evenings that don’t call for a book at all.

Pet-friendly, by design

The property is pet-friendly by design, with a dedicated area of its own. A separate play area gives the youngest residents somewhere that belongs entirely to them.

The Index

Eighteen ways to put the book down

18 amenities

The Library01
Reading Lounge02
Writer's Room03
Gym04
Reading Salon05
Relaxation Lounges06
Kids' Play Area07
Pets' Area08
Floating Cabanas09

Shallow Water Feature Lounge10
Sunken Seating11
Mini Golf12
Rooftop BBQ & Lounge13
Outdoor Cinema14
Adult Rooftop Pool15
Kids Rooftop Pool16
Rooftop Terrace Garden17
Changing Rooms18

Chapter SixVI

A Book Well Bound

The Residences aren't defined by any one room. They're defined by how the day moves through all of them — quickly in some, slowly in others, and not at all in the ones that ask nothing of you. That's the kind of home this is. One that already fits the life being lived in it.

The Kitchen

Built into the same wall as the coffee machine, a shelf holds space for the pause before breakfast. The kind of pause that deserves something to read. Coffee on one side. A chapter on the other. Neither one waits for the other to finish.

The Bedroom

A shelf runs the length of the wall, close enough to reach without leaving the bed. A light angles exactly where a hand would need it, for the chapter that outlasts the rest of the house going quiet.

Chapter SevenVII

The Facts

Q3 2028

Handover date

Studio

666,000

AED · Starting from

Starting from 360 sq. ft.

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One Bedroom

979,000

AED · Starting from

Starting from 600 sq. ft.

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Two Bedroom

1.55 M

AED · Starting from

Starting from 1,035 sq. ft.

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Three Bedroom

1.9 M

AED · Starting from

Starting from 1,314 sq. ft.

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Building ConfigurationResidential · B + G + 3P + 13 + R

Typology	Min. size	Max. size
Studio	384	426
1 Bedroom Compact	546	1,053
1 Bedroom Executive	605	1,234
2 Bedroom	1,022	1,686
3 Bedroom	1,305	1,884

Sizes include balconies, in sq. ft.

Payment Plans

50% during construction · 50% on completion

Installment	Payment	Date
1st	20% + 4% DLD fee + admin fee	On booking
2nd	5%	15/11/2026*
3rd	5%	01/04/2027*
4th	5%	15/08/2027*
5th	5%	01/11/2027*
6th	5%	15/02/2028*
7th	5%	01/07/2028*
On completion	50%	Q3 2028

* Dates as stated in the developer’s payment schedule.

The Film

The Archive, in motion

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Chapter EightVIII

A Journey to Perfection

Imtiaz Developments is a Dubai-based real estate developer founded in 1993, with an AED 15 billion portfolio across 50+ projects and 2,000+ delivered units. Led by CEO Masih Imtiaz, it operates a fully integrated model spanning design, construction, joinery, aluminium and glass, investment, property management and after-sales. This vertical integration ensures every detail is refined in-house, creating spaces shaped by craftsmanship, control and long-term thinking rather than outsourced delivery. Guided by its philosophy “A Journey To Perfection”, Imtiaz develops environments designed to evolve with the people who inhabit them.

1993

Founded

AED 15B

Portfolio

50+

Projects

2,000+

Units delivered

Epilogue

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