A privately-held UAE construction house combining the engineering rigour of a contractor with the craftsmanship of a finishes atelier. Hospitality, residential, cultural — for clients who care about the surface.
Forty-seven years in the United Arab Emirates — building hotels, palaces, restaurants and cultural houses for the operators & designers who shape this country.
Forty-seven years of receipts. The figures below are what disciplined practice produces over four decades.
Most contractors stop where the paint begins. We don't. Al Madar MGM was founded in Dubai in 1979 to build the new city — and stayed long enough to learn its oldest crafts.
A single trusted partner takes a project from foundation to final coat — the same standards applied to a structural slab and to a hand-burnished tadelakt wall. Operators describe it as the rare case where the contractor and the craftsman are the same firm.
Forty-seven years in, we are still a privately held UAE house — small enough to know every wall on every site, large enough to carry hospitality, cultural and government mandates at scale.
A complete capability — from groundworks to gold leaf — assembled over four decades and kept entirely in-house. The crafts that cannot be subcontracted at quality.
Atelier · 22 ct
Murals, gilding, hand-painted ornament. 22-carat gold leaf, palladium, mother-of-pearl — applied by trained artists, not subcontractors.
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Plaster · Tadelakt
Venetian plaster, micro-cement, tadelakt, marmorino. Hand-applied, hand-burnished. The flagship craft offering — where most contractors stop, we begin.
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Concrete · Polished
Polished, board-formed, exposed-aggregate. Cast-in-place finishes specified by architects who care about the seam, the line, the texture.
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Brass · Patina
Architectural metallics, patinas, brass and copper finishes on substrate — increasingly specified by hospitality and high-end residential.
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GRC · Sculpt
Themed environments for attractions, F&B, hospitality, retail. Sculpted GRC, faux finishes — set design crossed with permanent construction.
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Civil · Fit-out
The structural backbone behind every project. Civil construction, end-to-end fit-out, decorative flooring, and long-term maintenance.
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A 14-month engagement combining architectural concrete finishes, hand-applied tadelakt to interior galleries, and bespoke metal-leaf detailing across 18,400 m².
View case study ↗A curated set of recent commissions across hospitality, cultural and residential mandates.
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If you brief by industry rather than by service, this is where to start.
Forty-seven years of receipts in the UAE — palace projects, civic landmarks, hospitality. Our oldest active maintenance contract dates to 1991.
Civil to gilt under one roof. Most peers are either generalists or boutique finishers. We are both. A single contract, a single accountability.
Muralists, gilders, tadelakt artisans, decorative painters, theming sculptors — on Al Madar payroll. Cannot be subcontracted at quality.
Privately held, family-owned, single-country. Every senior PM has worked through at least one cycle of UAE construction.
Field notes, technical writing and exhibition appearances. Updated weekly.
How Venetian plaster, tadelakt and micro-cement behave under coastal humidity, AC cycling and direct sun.
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Eighteen months on site, 38,400 m² of cast-in-place architectural concrete.
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Live demonstrations of marmorino, gold-leaf gilding and patinated metal coatings.
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Tell us the brief — sector, scope, programme. One of the studio principals replies within two working days. Drawings, RFPs & budgets welcome.