Golf Acres at a glance
Golf Acres is a residential building of 13 storeys under construction in Emaar South, the master community Emaar Properties is developing within Dubai South. It belongs to a cluster of apartment buildings in the northern part of the community whose names all refer to the golf course at its centre: Golf Hills, Golf Verge, Golf Meadows, Golf Dale and Golf Acres itself. Work has started across that cluster.
The building and its units
The unit mix is one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom apartments, and the scheme also includes 10 villas.
Design work is credited to Archcorp Architectural Engineering as architectural consultant, and the foundation work has gone to Alpha Pile Foundation Equipment Services. The units are described as looking out over the community golf course.
Amenities
The amenities specified for Golf Acres are:
- a swimming pool
- a jogging track
- a yoga deck
- landscaped gardens
- children's play areas
- an outdoor gymnasium
- barbecue areas
- sunken seating
Emaar South
Emaar South is a master-planned community by Emaar Properties in Dubai South, an airport city covering 145 sq km, and lies near Al Maktoum International Airport as well as the Expo 2020 site. The master plan spans 1,725 acres (700 hectares) and allows for more than 15,000 residential units across villas, tiered townhouses, townhouses and apartments, arranged around a championship golf course of 18 holes. The community was planned in four phases, with connectivity, accessibility, sustainability and residential density set as its design principles.
Earlier parts of Emaar South are complete. They include Golf Links, a group of villas of four and five bedrooms that look across the golf course; Golf Views, a pair of residential buildings with one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom apartments; Parkside, three- and four-bedroom townhouses laid out among green spaces; and Urbana, built in three phases with 324 tiered townhouses of two and three bedrooms in a mixed-use setting. The community is divided into 24 sub-communities in all. Arif & Bintoak was the architectural consultant for the master community.
Facilities named for the wider community include a mosque, a retail centre, restaurants, a cafe, a basketball court, health clubs, gyms, a park, a swimming pool, schools and play areas for children.
The golf club
The specification for the Emaar South Golf Club covers a championship course of 18 holes, a par 3 course and a driving range, with a clubhouse holding locker rooms, a golf shop, a restaurant, parking for guests and charging points for electric vehicles. The wider master plan also provides for tree-lined boulevards, a public transport network that includes autonomous vehicles, walking and cycling trails, several large parks, shopping precincts, hotels rated three and four stars, a K-12 school and a recreation centre for the golf villas.