Supertall · 2025
Helix Spire
A 420-metre residential tower that rotates 1.2° per floor, letting every residence trace the sun across the Gulf.
Architecture atelier · Est. 2011
Designing
Tomorrow's
Landmarks.
We compose light, geometry and silence into buildings that feel inevitable — parametric towers, cliff-edge villas and cultural icons for clients who refuse the ordinary.
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Selected Work
Landmarks in
the making.
Four commissions that define our decade — each one a negotiation between physics, poetry and the horizon line.
Private residence · 2024
Villa Eclisse
A cantilevered glass villa suspended eleven metres over the Tyrrhenian cliff face.
Cultural · 2023
Aurora Hall
A concert hall whose parabolic shell tunes itself acoustically to the northern lights season.
Masterplan · Ongoing
Meridian District
Twelve hectares of carbon-negative urbanism — three towers, a sunken forum and a canopy farm.
Studio Philosophy
Buildings should
behave like verbs.
A landmark is never an object. It gathers, shelters, frames, provokes. We begin every commission by writing the verbs a place must perform — only then do we draw its form.
Our atelier of 64 architects, computational designers and environmental engineers works from studios in London, Dubai and Singapore, prototyping in code before we ever pour concrete.
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Fig. 01 — Aurora Hall, primary shell study
Design Process
From signal
to skyline.
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Phase 01 — Listen
Site Intelligence
Drone photogrammetry, wind tunnelling and a year of solar data compress into a living digital twin of the site.
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Phase 02 — Generate
Parametric Iteration
Our in-house solver evolves thousands of massing candidates overnight, scored on light, carbon and awe.
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Phase 03 — Craft
Material Poetry
Full-scale façade mock-ups in our Dubai fabrication lab — glass, basalt and bio-concrete tested under real sun.
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Phase 04 — Deliver
Landmark Handover
On-site supervision to the last millimetre, then a five-year performance covenant. The building must keep its promises.
Capabilities
What we build.
Signature Towers
Supertall and high-rise architecture engineered for skyline permanence.
Private Villas
Discreet residences for collectors of place — cliff, desert and fjord editions.
Cultural Icons
Museums, halls and pavilions designed to become civic memory.
Master Planning
Carbon-negative districts where infrastructure disappears into landscape.
The Atelier
Minds behind
the monoliths.
Amara Voss
Founding principal
Ex-Zaha Hadid. Believes every skyline owes the street an apology or a gift.
Kenji Aoki
Design director
Trained in Kyoto joinery before parametrics. Draws every first sketch by hand.
Leila Farhadi
Head of computation
Wrote the studio's generative solver. Thinks in gradients, dreams in meshes.
Mateo Rühl
Sustainability lead
Carbon accountant with a poet's grudge. Signs off nothing above net-zero.
Client Voices
Words that echo.
They didn't design us a headquarters. They designed the reason people cross the city to see one.
Sofia Lindqvist
CEO, Nordlys Energy
Villa Eclisse changed my relationship with the sea. Some mornings I genuinely cannot tell where the house ends.
A. Moretti
Private client, Amalfi
VANTA delivered the Spire eight weeks early and 4% under budget. The audacity is matched only by the discipline.
Rashid Al Mansoori
Chairman, Meraas Capital
Awards & Certifications
RIBA International Prize
Aurora Hall — 2024
CTBUH Best Tall Building, Middle East
Helix Spire — 2025
Dezeen Architecture Studio of the Year
Studio — 2025
LEED Platinum · BREEAM Outstanding
All projects since 2021
Journal
Latest thinking.
Computation · June 2026
Why our next tower was designed by wind
Inside the solver that let a decade of gust data sculpt the Helix Spire's twist.
Materials · May 2026
Bio-concrete that heals its own cracks
Field notes from 18 months of self-repairing façade panels in the Gulf sun.
Cities · April 2026
The case for darkness in city planning
Meridian District will be the first quarter designed around a protected night sky.
Commission
Begin your
landmark.
Tell us about the site, the ambition and the impossible part. The impossible part is usually where we start.
London HQ
12 Obsidian Wharf
E1W 3SS
New business
studio@vanta.archi
+44 20 7946 0138
Satellites
Dubai · Singapore