Jumeirah Islands
Jumeirah Islands
Understand the community.
Forty-six villa islands among nineteen lakes, just off Sheikh Zayed Road between Jumeirah Lakes Towers and The Meadows. Sold out in 2004, home since 2005, and finite ever since.
- Villa islands
- 46
- Sixteen villas on each
- Original villas
- 736
- Plus 31 Mansions
- Lakes
- 19
- About 23% of the community
- Handed over
- 2005–06
- Sold out in 2004
736
original villas. A finite residential community, with no new villas being added to the original stock.
- 46
- Villa islands
- 16
- Villas on each
- 31
- Mansions
- 19
- Lakes
- ≈300
- Hectares
- 4
- Original styles
Why it’s different
Some things can’t be recreated.
Move across the five qualities that set Jumeirah Islands apart from newer communities.
How it is arranged
Every island is its own small neighbourhood.
Each island holds sixteen villas around a quiet internal road with a single way in. The islands sit in two facing rows, numbered in a zig-zag from Cluster 5 to Cluster 50, with the lakes and channels running between and around them.
The Mansions occupy a separate enclave beside Cluster 32, and the Clubhouse sits beside them at the south-eastern end.
Architecture
Not forty-six identical islands.
Each island was built in a single style. Many villas have since been rebuilt in a contemporary idiom, but the original style still sets the character of the cluster.
Low terracotta roofs, warm stucco walls and shaded courtyards: the most numerous style on the islands.
Costa del Sol · French Riviera · Spanish
Arches, domes and geometric detail, often around a courtyard, with flat roofs behind parapets.
Ottoman · Mamluk · Moroccan · Abbasid
Bright, open-plan homes in earth tones, with flat roofs and roof terraces.
Desert Modern · Mexican · Egyptian · Dubai
Classical, symmetrical façades, pitched tiled roofs, arched windows and iron balconies.
Italian · Venetian · Venice Medici · Spanish
Six clusters that the market now knows as the Contemporary clusters, popular with buyers who want clean lines and glass.
Registered as a second European group. The original masterplan described four styles; these clusters are recorded with their own European code.
Mediterranean, 16 clusters highlighted
Life on the islands
What the community offers
Fully renovated and reopened in 2021: Isola Ristorante, The Pool with its cabanas, Joe's Backyard gastropub, RAISE Fitness & Wellness, a salon and a barbershop. Open to visitors as well as residents; the gym runs on membership.
The community's shopping and café centre, opened in 2017 and anchored by a Choithrams supermarket, with a 1.1 km waterside jogging track.
Parks and children's play areas, tennis, padel and basketball courts, and around 29 km of mapped lakeside footpaths and footbridges linking the islands.
A gated community with 24-hour security and controlled entrances.
History
Two decades in the making
2002
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The masterplan
Nakheel commissions the detailed masterplan and villa design on an American concept plan.
Location
Central, without feeling it.
Just east of Sheikh Zayed Road between Interchanges 5 and 6. Jumeirah Lakes Towers and Jumeirah Heights lie to the north-west, The Meadows and The Springs to the north-east, and Jumeirah Park along the south-west.
See what’s nearby in the AtlasFrom the community gatesMinutes by car
- Dubai British School, Jumeirah Park6 min
- DMCC Metro10 min
- Dubai Marina14 min
- Ibn Battuta14 min
- Palm Jumeirah18 min
- DXB airport30 min
Indicative drive times; Nakheel figures except the school. Allow for traffic and your starting cluster.
Before I look at the kitchen, I look at the position.