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Marina Crown
Dubai Marina
Project factsheet
Storeys 52
Height 207 m
Status Completed
Completed 2006
District Dubai Marina
About the building
52-storey residential building in Dubai Marina, completed in 2006. Architect — Artec Architectural & Engineering Consultants.
What the building has
- Swimming pool
- Spa and sauna
- Children's area
- 24/7 security
- Sports courts
Specifications for Marina Crown per Propsearch and the Dubai Land Department. They describe the whole building, not the individual unit.
About the project
Marina Crown is a 52-storey residential building in Dubai Marina, completed in 2006.
The architecture is by Artec Architectural & Engineering Consultants.
Height — 207 metres.
The database currently holds 2 lots in this project, from 2 800 000 AED.
Fifty-two storeys handed over in 2006 in Dubai Marina, designed by the Emirati firm Artec. The second-tallest tower of the district's first development wave.
What it is
Marina Crown is a 52-storey residential tower completed in 2006. The architect is Artec Architectural & Engineering, a local firm.
The tower belongs to Marina's first development wave, when the district wasn't yet dense and blocks were spaced generously apart.
The 2006 generation
Eleven towers handed over in 2006–2007 form the district's first layer. Marina Crown is the second-tallest in that generation, after Marina Heights.
| Tower | Storeys | Handover | Residences | Architect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marina Heights | 55 | 2006 | — | RMJM Dubai |
| Marina Crown | 52 | 2006 | — | Artec |
| Le Rêve | 50 | 2006 | — | WS Atkins |
| Horizon Tower | 45 | 2006 | 162 | Arenco |
| Marina Terrace | 38 | 2006 | — | HOK Canada, Norr |
| Marina Tower | 33 | 2006 | 202 | Dubarch |
| Al Habtoor Tower | 32 | 2007 | 158 | Khatib & Alami |
| Marina Sail | 24 | 2007 | 164 | Khatib & Alami |
| The Jewels | 21 | 2007 | 122 | RMJM Dubai |
| Yacht Bay | 18 | 2007 | 174 | Khatib & Alami |
Per propsearch building records. A dash means the residence count is not listed.
A local firm next to an international one
A telling detail of this wave: work by international practices — RMJM, WS Atkins, HOK — stands right next to local firms like Artec, Dubarch and Arenco, the kind of mix seen in most fast-built skylines where major global names arrive alongside home-grown practices. The difference shows in the façades and in how common areas were handled.
For a buyer this isn't a question of prestige but of durability: façade solutions and engineering from different designers age differently, and inspecting the building matters more than the name on the record.
Marina's median handover year is 2011, which makes Marina Crown five years older than half the district.
| Tower | AED per ft² | Lots | Average area | Average price, million |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Six Senses Residences | 7000 | 3 | 13,788 ft² | 85.67 |
| Vida Residences | 3685 | 4 | 1882 ft² | 6.85 |
| LIV Marina | 3534 | 6 | 1527 ft² | 5.43 |
| Marina Shores | 3301 | 11 | 1201 ft² | 3.85 |
| Marina Gate | 3284 | 5 | 1875 ft² | 6.00 |
| Stella Maris | 2874 | 3 | 3066 ft² | 9.06 |
| LIV Residence | 2626 | 3 | 1764 ft² | 4.63 |
| Al Majara | 2583 | 6 | 1365 ft² | 3.52 |
| Dubai Marina Towers | 2427 | 11 | 2424 ft² | 5.78 |
| Damac Heights | 2351 | 6 | 1761 ft² | 3.96 |
| Cayan Tower | 2325 | 3 | 3549 ft² | 7.67 |
| Marina Promenade | 2272 | 6 | 1748 ft² | 3.86 |
| Princess Tower | 1958 | 4 | 1952 ft² | 3.91 |
| Dorra Bay | 1685 | 3 | 1867 ft² | 3.11 |
| Emirates Crown | 1414 | 6 | 3469 ft² | 4.87 |
| Marina Crown | 1412 | 6 | 2739 ft² | 3.89 |
| Al Seef Tower | 1377 | 7 | 3553 ft² | 4.89 |
| Horizon Tower | 1327 | 3 | 2499 ft² | 3.32 |
Our own stock as of 28 August 2026, towers with three or more lots and a known area. District average — AED 2,588/ft², median lot AED 3.7 million out of 266 lots.
propsearch building record: 52 storeys, handed over 2006, architect Artec Architectural & Engineering. The 2006–2007 generation table and the median handover year are calculated from Dubai Marina tower records.
What the complex has
Swimming pool
Spa and sauna
Children's area
24/7 security
Sports courts
Where it is
Frequently asked about Marina Crown
How many floors does Marina Crown have?
52. The building has 207 m tall.
Has Marina Crown been handed over?
Handed over: 2006. The property is complete, so after the deal you can move in or put it on the rental market at once.
Where is Marina Crown?
Dubai Marina. The original high-rise waterfront: a dense forest of towers around a man-made marina, and still the busiest rental market in the city.
How much does an apartment in Marina Crown cost?
The database currently holds 2 lots in this project, from 2 800 000 AED. The list changes daily — I will send a fresh selection for the building on request.
What is on site at Marina Crown?
Swimming pool, Spa and sauna, Children's area, 24/7 security, Sports courts. The list comes from the project description and covers the whole complex.
In the news
What has been written about the building, its developer and Dubai Marina
Dubai Marina: five of the ten tallest residential buildings in the world
A district designed from nothing on a Vancouver waterfront model, built between 2003 and 2008. The numbers behind it, and what a fully man-made location tells you about how value is created in Dubai.
Orra Real Estate Development: JLT or the Marina, two districts a road apart
A developer with buildings on both sides of Sheikh Zayed Road. The two districts look interchangeable on a map and behave differently — here is what the price gap actually buys.
Halcon Real Estate: how to spot a building where nobody is in charge
A Dubai Marina tower from 2011. In buildings owned mostly by absent investors, decisions stop being made — and the symptoms are visible in an afternoon if you know them.
Condor Group: buying a just-finished flat from someone who never lived in it
A Dubai Marina tower completed in 2023. Much of the stock in a newly delivered building is sold on by off-plan investors — and buying from one is its own transaction.
Scope Investment: a 2022 tower, and the first wave of resales
A Dubai Marina tower completed a few years ago. Buildings at this age go through a predictable event that shapes their prices — and it is a buying opportunity if you can see it.
ABA Real Estate Development: building on the last plots of a finished district
A tall branded tower under construction in Dubai Marina. Infill development in a built-out district has a particular economics — for the buyer and for the neighbours.
ETA Star: an engineering group that built apartments
The property arm of a large regional engineering and contracting group, with towers in the Marina and on the Palm. What an engineering parent means in a delivered building.
32Group: how to value a Marina tower nobody has heard of
A smaller developer with a mid-2000s Dubai Marina building. Most towers are not landmarks, and valuing an ordinary one is a different exercise — here is how it works.
Where this project stands today
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