Abu Dhabi tends to want its interiors calmer than its neighbour does, which suits how NYKS works.
Villas and family compounds, apartments, workspaces and institutional or cultural interiors.
The climate problem is the same as the rest of the Gulf — extreme heat, glare, fine dust — and the answers are the same: shading, reveals, glazing specification, and joinery detailed for dust rather than against it. Larger family villas need acoustic and spatial planning so that generous volumes feel composed rather than empty.
Family compounds often mean phased work across several buildings and a brief that has to satisfy more than one household. We plan the sequence and the shared decisions early.
Working across a distance is exactly where BIM earns its keep. The project is modelled and coordinated in three dimensions before anything is ordered, so joinery, services and finishes are resolved against one another rather than on site, quantities come off the model, and a local contractor can build from drawings that leave nothing to interpretation.
NYKS is a turnkey studio: the same people who draw the room are accountable for the room that gets built — design, artisan commissioning, procurement, site execution and handover. We do not take styling-only engagements. More about the studio and how it works is on the about page.
Where a project needs them, we bring in specialists by niche — a landscape designer when the garden is part of the architecture, a lighting designer when the room depends on how it is lit, MEP consultants so services are engineered rather than accommodated, and IT and AV consultants where the space has to be genuinely intelligent. Their work is coordinated in BIM against ours, so everything agrees on the drawing before it has to agree on site.
Through BIM and resolved documentation. The room is modelled in three dimensions and coordinated before work starts, so the specification a local contractor receives is unambiguous. Site presence is scheduled around the decisive stages rather than spread thin.
Yes. Abu Dhabi is one of the international cities the studio works in, with design run from the studio and site presence scheduled around the decisive stages.
With restraint and planning. Generous volumes need spatial and acoustic thought or they read as empty; the aim is composed, not filled.
Yes. Compound projects usually are, and the sequence and shared decisions are planned at the start.
Shading, deep reveals and glazing performance for heat and glare, and joinery detailed with fine dust in mind.