Canal network
The plan is cut into islands, each carrying its own grain of housing.
Development Intelligence Platform · Dubai
Creating extraordinary real estate
We are engaged before the decision is fixed — to establish what a site should become, and then to author it.
Architecture
Development Intelligence
Urban Strategy
Strategic Partnerships
25+
Years in practice
88+
Projects in the portfolio
11
Countries
6
Awards
Architecture is too important to be confined to buildings.
Position
The world competes on design. We compete on intelligence.
ARCHICOB is an independent Development Intelligence Platform, integrating strategy, architecture, urbanism, technology, and capital to create extraordinary real estate.
Every project becomes significantly more valuable because ARCHICOB participated.
Selected Work
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Two selected. Fifty-two published.
Doha, Qatar · Twin supertowers · In development
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Victory Doha
320m
Height
2
Towers, one podium
3
Hotel · Residences · Observatory
A landmark is recognised in profile, at distance, at night.
China · Canal district masterplan · Concept design
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Xīng Chéng · Star City
One tower
A single tower marks the point where the waterways converge.
Water frontage
Every island edge is frontage. The geometry distributes the value.
The argument
Water is the most expensive public realm to build, and the only one that never dates.
The Platform
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Three tiers. One authorship.
I · Practice
Authored designII · Intelligence
Before the brief hardensIII · Capital & Knowledge
Where conviction is held
Intelligence
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We publish what we learn. Deliberately.
Jacques El Moallem
Founder & Principal Architect
Founder
A practice with an author
Architecture is civilisation made visible.
Jacques El Moallem is the author of every commission the practice accepts. Design authority is not delegated.
Commissions
Tell us what you intend to build
A limited number are accepted each year. Every enquiry is read by the principal.
Position
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Founder & Principal Architect
Jacques El Moallem
Jacques El Moallem founded ARCHICOB in Dubai in 2014, having left institutional practice to build something with a single point of view.
He holds a DEA in urban planning from the Sorbonne Paris IV, a master’s in urban project management from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and a master’s in architecture from USEK. He has worked with authorities and developers across the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman — and remains the author of every commission the practice accepts.
Architecture is civilisation made visible.
Design
Author of every commission
Counsel
Developers, family offices, authorities
Review
Competition juries, design quality
Teaching
Lectures and invited studios