The Cube 61 is a private house of travertine, dark walnut and black stone in Umm Suqeim 2, Dubai, completed in 2024. It is planned around a courtyard pool so that the dining room and the family rooms look onto water rather than onto the street. Towards the road it presents a composed, closed face of travertine, dark timber slats and a lit boundary wall, photographed at dusk beside a neighbouring villa the studio also designed.
Inside, the kitchen is a black stone island with bar seating under dark walnut cabinets; fluted walnut lines the passages, and the bathroom doors pivot in the same timber; a travertine feature wall is washed by uplights; and a full-height dark pivot door stands in the entrance hall behind sheer curtains. The house holds six bedrooms, a formal living room, a dining hall, a home gym, a private cinema, a rooftop pantry, a guard room, staff accommodation and a laundry, across about 10,700 square feet.
LKYOOB carried the commission as one team from the first study to handover: architecture, interior design, engineering, landscape, project management and site oversight, with the authority submissions prepared in-house. Every image is a photograph of the finished house, taken at completion.
