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A luxury, experiential destination like no other
Atlantis The Royal brings a new generation of luxury resort to Dubai.
This iconic landmark welcomes guests to an experience that transcends, a destination where everything has been designed to challenge the boundaries of imagination.
The resort features 795 elegant rooms, suites, and signature penthouses, all offering views of the Dubai skyline or the Arabian Sea. Additionally, 44 of the suites include private infinity pools.
G.A Group was tasked with creating a seamless and compelling narrative that could resolve numberless planning, design and technical challenges.
The narrative is centred on the notion of water and water-based moments throughout the property, distinguishing it form the ocean-centric emphasis found at the sister hotel, Atlantis, The Palm.
Water as a narrative
The original design story is inspired by the Bedouins of the Arabian desert. The tribes would traverse thousands of miles across the sand dunes, navigating by water wells that served as the lifeblood of the desert.
The resort celebrates water as a precious commodity with water features, sculptures, and elements throughout the property, guiding guests on their journey.
Rather than focusing solely on water in its liquid form, we explored the concepts of reflection and weightlessness, which are embodied in the destination stair.
Droplets
Standing 11.5 meters tall and crafted from 5.5 tonnes of stainless steel, Droplets is the striking centerpiece of Atlantis The Royal’s lobby. Designed, conceptualised, and modelled by G.A Group, the sculpture symbolises the first drop of rain in a desert, embodying renewal and complementing the resort’s cascading waterfalls and trickling pools.
Each smooth, hand-pounded droplet - originally a flat steel sheet - was meticulously shaped and attached to a central ‘tree’ using a crane, creating a dramatic stacked effect. First modeled in 3D and then handcrafted, this engineering marvel took a year to complete, blending artistry with precision craftsmanship.
Artistic Interpretation of Natual Life
Three fish aquariums in the lobby house 7,200 marine animals across 32 species, offering guests a dynamic underwater experience with tropical fish like purple tangs and surgeonfish.
Designed as an artistic interpretation of marine life in the desert, the aquariums use advanced LED screen technology to create a mesmerising interplay of light and shadow, embodying schooling fish moving beneath dappled sunlight.
The creation of these aquariums required thousands of hours of collaboration between G.A. and various partners, spanning years of design, visualisation, and installation, including remote coordination during the pandemic.
Resonance Bar by Heston Blumenthal
Atlantis The Royal’s jellyfish aquarium forms the back drop of the Resonance Bar by Heston Blumenthal. At seven metres deep and holding 63,000 litres of water, the aquarium is one of the largest in the World - home to 4,000 Moon jellyfish (Aurelia Aurita).
A unique aspect of the jellyfish aquarium is its kreisel (cylindrical) shape and flow. This design ensures the jellyfish are suspended weightlessly in the middle of aquarium and do not touch the sides.
Gentle blues & shimmering pearls
The theme of each guestroom and suite continues the connection with water but in a refined and abstract way, from the soft lines of the sofa to the undulating tones in the carpets, becoming more dramatic the higher up the building guests go.
From the gentle blues of the Seascape room, to the shimmering pearls of a Horizon Penthouse, all the way up to the dramatic hues of orange and red coral coloured walls of the Panoramic Penthouse.
