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ON THE
TERRACE

Sharjah Beach Yacht Marina Restaurant Club

3Deluxe Designs Sharjah Beach Club House Restaurant

Attractive Urban
Beach With

Marina in U.A.E.

Sharjah, United

Arab Emirates

everal years after 3deluxe 3deluxe was given the opportunity to small park. The marina is open to the public
transformed the downtown transform one of the urban beaches of and in combination with the park enhances
SNoor Island into a green, urban Sharjah City not far from Dubai’s famous the location’s excellent amenity value.
paradise, the German architecture office landmarks Burj Khalifa and The Palm into
is designing a vibrant, attractive urban an attractive urban location. Restaurants, Organic Beach Cluster
beach with a marina as part of more cafés, local suppliers, playgrounds, ample The three organic beach clusters are
comprehensive tourist infrastructure greenery, jogging and bike tracks provide inserted between roads, promenades, and
measures in Sharjah City, a metropolis city dwellers with an attractive area beaches, and offer space for numerous
that is home to millions. between beach and city that serves many restaurants, cafés, mini-markets and
Urban beaches make an important different purposes. service buildings. The arrangement not
contribution to the quality of life in large Three-organically shaped platforms, only means several restaurant terraces
metropolises. Meanwhile, there is a each featuring eight buildings and face the sea, but simultaneously forms
growing trend to not only define them as pavilions, blend harmoniously into the an inner square-like area that is lined by
special places for bathing, but to integrate setting comprising a three km-long beach cafés.
them more into the everyday urban context and promenade. Embedded between Access to the promenade on the one
and make them accessible to different clusters two and three are a marina with a side and to the beach on the other is both
groups of people around the clock. clubhouse, several service buildings, and a intuitive and flowing. An organically

Sharjah Beach Marina Club House

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