Under constructionSelect GroupDubai Design District
Artistry One Residences
Price on application
- Handover
- 2029
- Payment plan
- 50/50
1 bed – 4 bed · Apartments & penthouses
Community · Downtown & Urban
Partially establishedDubai Design District
Eleven buildings of studios and showrooms since 2015, more than 600 creative companies, and a residential quarter that started handing over in 2022.
- StageStage
- Partially established
- TypesProperty types
- Apartments
- HandoverHandover window
- 2029
What it is
An office district learning to be a neighbourhood.
Dubai Design District, known as d3, was established in 2013 by TECOM as a free-zone business park for design, fashion and creative companies, between Downtown Dubai and Dubai Creek Harbour and beside the water in Business Bay.
The offices, the cafes and the events are already here. The homes are the new part.
What exists today
What is physically there in Dubai Design District.
Phase 1 of d3 completed in 2015 and 2016: eleven buildings holding about 1.2 million square feet of offices, studios, ateliers and showrooms, with more than 200,000 square feet of retail.
More than 600 creative-economy companies operate in the district, including Adidas, Nike and Foster + Partners, alongside restaurants, cafes, boutiques and galleries at street level.
The first d3 residential phase handed over in 2022 and 2023 and is occupied; Design Quarter is the district's first purpose-built residential community.
A smart police station has operated in the district since 2020, and d3 hosts a year-round events calendar including Dubai Design Week.
There is no metro station inside d3. Business Bay station on the Red Line is the nearest, reached by car or a long walk.
There is no school and little landscaped park inside the district; an expanded residential masterplan with canal-front homes and public space was announced in 2026 and is not built.
Last verified
- Buyers who want a walkable, central, canal-side address with restaurants and culture already working rather than promised.
- Investors letting to the creative-economy tenants who already work in the district.
- Less suited to
- families wanting schools and green space inside the community, and anyone who needs a metro station at the door.
The district sits beside Business Bay and the canal, with Downtown Dubai, the Dubai Mall and Ras Al Khor a short drive, reached via Al Khail Road (E44) and Ras Al Khor Road.
There is no metro station inside d3; Business Bay station on the Red Line is the nearest and is a short drive or a long walk.
Between Downtown and Dubai Creek Harbour, on the water, with the city's design and fashion businesses at street level.
Existing — built and open
- d3 phase 1 commercial buildings, open since 2015Other
- Street-level retail, restaurants, cafes and galleriesRetail
- d3 Residences phase 1, handed over 2022–2023Other
- Al Khail Road and Ras Al Khor Road accessRoad
Planned — not built
Target dates are the developer's or the authority's, and several have moved before. Treat them as upside, not as a commute plan.
- Expanded d3 residential masterplan with canal-front homes and public spacePlanned · Announced in 2026; no completion dates published
Who it suits, and who it doesn't
- Buyers who want a walkable, central, canal-side address with restaurants and culture already working rather than promised.
- Investors letting to the creative-economy tenants who already work in the district.
- Less suited to
- families wanting schools and green space inside the community, and anyone who needs a metro station at the door.
Connectivity & infrastructure
The district sits beside Business Bay and the canal, with Downtown Dubai, the Dubai Mall and Ras Al Khor a short drive, reached via Al Khail Road (E44) and Ras Al Khor Road.
There is no metro station inside d3; Business Bay station on the Red Line is the nearest and is a short drive or a long walk.
Between Downtown and Dubai Creek Harbour, on the water, with the city's design and fashion businesses at street level.
Existing — built and open
- d3 phase 1 commercial buildings, open since 2015Other
- Street-level retail, restaurants, cafes and galleriesRetail
- d3 Residences phase 1, handed over 2022–2023Other
- Al Khail Road and Ras Al Khor Road accessRoad
Planned — not built
Target dates are the developer's or the authority's, and several have moved before. Treat them as upside, not as a commute plan.
- Expanded d3 residential masterplan with canal-front homes and public spacePlanned · Announced in 2026; no completion dates published
Projects in this community
When the supply lands.
2 projects we cover in Dubai Design District, grouped by the year they are due to hand over — so you can see where completions cluster before you pick one.
2029
Handover 2029 · 2 projects- Under constructionSelect Group
Under constructionSelect GroupDubai Design DistrictArtistry Two Residences
Price on application
- Handover
- 2029
- Payment plan
- 50/50
1 bed – 4 bed · Apartments & penthouses
Next step
Availability in Dubai Design District comes from a person.
What is for sale in Dubai Design District changes week to week, project by project and building by building. Tell us the budget and the bedrooms you have in mind and we will send what is genuinely open, at today's prices, with our view on which to look at first.
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Developers active here
OAC18 Perspective
One of the few Dubai districts where the street life arrived before the apartments.
- Where it is strong
- A working creative district since 2015 with more than 600 companies, restaurants, galleries and a year-round events calendar; canal frontage; central position between Downtown and Creek Harbour; and residential stock already handed over and let.
- Where it falls short
- No metro station inside the district, no school and little green space, a business-park street pattern in the older phases, and a residential masterplan whose larger promises are announcements rather than buildings.
- Supply and handover
Residential supply here is about to change scale. The district's existing apartment stock is small, which has kept rents firm, but the 2026 masterplan announcement points to a much larger residential footprint delivered over years. A buyer today is buying into a thin market that is scheduled to thicken considerably; that is good for amenity and less good for an exit at handover.
We would recommend it to a buyer or investor who wants a central, walkable, culturally active address and is buying into what is already there rather than what is drawn. We would not recommend it to a family who needs a school inside the community, and we would want to see exactly which phase of the masterplan a project sits in before paying a premium for the canal.
Compare with nearby communities
Where else the same money goes.
EstablishedBusiness Bay
Next door, far larger and fully built, with a metro station and a much deeper resale market.
EstablishedDowntown Dubai
Minutes away, the finished version of a walkable central district, at a higher price.
First phases handed overDubai Creek Harbour
New-build waterfront near the centre, still under construction
Ask what we would avoid in Dubai Design District.
Twenty minutes on Dubai Design District specifically — which phases, which developers, and where the handover and resale risk actually sits.