The Edit at d3

The live release in d3

The Edit at d3 is the only building in Dubai Design District that Meraas still lists with properties available, which makes it the one route into the district at developer prices rather than resale prices. The published entry point is AED 2.00 M, and the release covers one- to four-bedroom residences together with penthouses across three towers. Because these are first-hand sales, a buyer chooses a specific apartment, reserves it, signs a sale and purchase agreement with the developer and pays instalments into the project escrow account instead of negotiating with an existing owner. Wincasa Properties, an authorised sales partner for Meraas, places those reservations at the developer's own published figures.

Meraas describes three sculptural towers rather than one slab, and the detailing follows from that decision: soft edges, filleted corners and balcony lines that run without interruption around the façades. Sky gardens are cut into the vertical structure as deep recesses, so planting reads from outside the building and not only from the podium deck. The practical consequence for a buyer is that floors are not interchangeable. A home beside a sky garden, a corner unit on a filleted edge and a mid-plate apartment are three different products at three different prices, and the floor-plan sheets Meraas publishes for each layout are the way to tell them apart before a reservation is signed.

The amenity programme is wider than the usual pool-and-gym pairing. Meraas lists resort-style pools, a wellness club with yoga, boxing and meditation studios, a padel court, a cinema room, an events lounge, a co-working space, a children's club, a club for teenagers, a gym and the sky gardens themselves. Read as a whole it describes a building meant to hold a household through a full week rather than a weekend: somewhere to work in the morning, train in the afternoon and give children and teenagers their own space at the weekend. It is also the part of the specification most worth confirming in the contract, because amenity schedules are contractual rather than promotional.

Dubai Design District is a working district for design, fashion, art and media businesses, built around offices, studios and galleries and a calendar of design weeks, fashion shows and art fairs. The masterplan Meraas publishes adds homes, shops, schools, healthcare and a car-free walking route through the district, which is what turns a business quarter into somewhere with a residential letting market. The developer lists Dubai Mall at six minutes by car, Downtown Dubai and City Walk at seven, Burj Khalifa and Business Bay at ten and DIFC at twelve, so an owner is letting either to people who work in the district itself or to people who work in the centre of the city.