Deseo Multiple Award Winner

Emerging from the ME by Melia Hotel, as part of the Opus Building created by the late and honorable Zaha Hadid, resides a garden paradise that goes by the name of Deseo. It’s easy to get the impression that the venue, what with its chilled-out vibes and mystical feel, was an effortless addition to the property. However, the reality was all too different. Bishop Design were urgently brought in by the hotel team to reinvent their pool deck just days before the rapidly upcoming opening date. Upon our initial encounter with the site, we were faced with a concrete slab of a space which was void of any identity – a pool accompanied by a finite number of undressed seating arrangements, a couple of cabanas, and a few stranded planters. Put simply, this wasn’t something that was worthy of being associated with an establishment as monumental as the Opus Tower. Whilst surrounded by an incredibly memorizing landscape of Dubai’s Business Bay, the lack of soul and utter anti-climax meant that the pool deck sadly had no relationship with its habitat.