A waterfront landmark on Al Reem Island designed by Pritzker Prize laureates Herzog & de Meuron, with mother-of-pearl façades made specially for this project. Apartments, Bay Villas and Sky Villas above a private marina and a promenade of cafés and boutiques.
The Swiss practice behind Tate Modern in London, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Beijing National Stadium and 56 Leonard Street in New York — more than 600 projects across 40 countries. For Riviera they took the Emirates' pearl-diving heritage and turned it into shimmering mother-of-pearl façades made exclusively for this building.
The lobby carries a 30-metre 3D sand-printed installation designed by Herzog & de Meuron, alongside coloured gradient glass panels by a contemporary artist.
Public spaces use custom wall coverings with artwork by the architects and terrazzo floors made with selected marbles in different colours.
The building follows the practice's principle of dynamic symmetry, which makes almost every residence in it different from the next.
The landscape is by Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, the French practice behind projects in Paris, Monaco, London and Rotterdam. Nearly 7,000 sqm of greenery, more than 300 trees and 15,000 plants run from the waterfront up to the highest levels of the building.
Planted terraces, hanging gardens and private green spaces are laid out as one continuous landscape, with palms, lemon and olive trees, flowering shrubs and aromatic planting. A one-kilometre walking path threads through it.
467 homes in total. Every residence comes with a fully equipped kitchen and high-end appliances, a private balcony or terrace, built-in wardrobes and natural wood flooring.
| Type | Units | Size | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bedroom | 169 | 63–99 m² | AED 2.5M |
| 2 bedrooms | 225 | 107–214 m² | AED 3.2M |
| 3 bedrooms | 59 | 172–250 m² | AED 5.2M |
| Duplex | 3 | 227–271 m² | AED 6.3M |
| Bay Villa | 5 | 511–609 m² | AED 16.7M |
| Sky Villa | 6 | 713–953 m² | AED 29.1M |
On the two starting prices. The per-type prices above are from MERED's factsheet dated July 2026. MERED's more recent project brief quotes the project as starting "from AED 2.8 million", which is the figure at the top of this page. Off-plan price lists move between releases — ask us for the current one rather than relying on either number.
Four separate pools, three gyms and a padel court, plus the promenade at ground level with cafés, restaurants and boutiques — and a private marina with berths for residents and their guests.
Half is paid across construction in equal 5% instalments, half on handover. These are the dates MERED publishes.
Al Reem Island is part of Abu Dhabi Global Market, the emirate's international financial centre — which is also why the island is exempt from the rental increase freeze introduced elsewhere in Abu Dhabi in June 2026.
These figures are not MERED's and not ours — they are from ADREC's official H1 2026 report. ADGM, which covers Al Reem and Al Maryah, sold AED 10.5 billion of homes in the first half of 2026, up 153% year on year.
ADREC records an average sales price of AED 23,000 per sqm at Riviera Residences in H1 2026. On the same island that puts it above Muheira (21) and Tara Park (20), and below Seamont Residences by Marriott (29) and Leaf Tower (25). The island's published range runs from about AED 9,000 to AED 29,000 per sqm depending on the building.
Al Reem is also second in the emirate for future supply — 13,518 new homes projected by 2030 — so the specific building matters more here than the island average.
We summarised the whole report on a separate page. Read the H1 2026 market summary →
Tell us which type you are looking at — a one-bedroom, a Bay Villa or a Sky Villa — and we will send the floor plans, what is genuinely available and the price as it stands today. We work in Russian, Kazakh and English.
