Lana, founder of Noya
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The Studio
Behind Noya

An architectural design bureau founded in Dubai by a Paris trained designer with a sensibility for 1970s interiors. Residential, commercial and hospitality, delivered with restraint.

Lana, founder of Noya
The Founder

Lana
Founder & Principal

Lana trained as a designer in Paris, where she learned to read a room before she ever drew one. She brought that ear to Dubai in 2019 and founded Noya, an architectural bureau working at the intersection of residential, commercial and hospitality design.

Her sensibility is shaped by the interiors of the 1970s. Soft curves, warm woods, oxblood and travertine, low silhouettes, a love of texture over ornament. Not nostalgia, the discipline behind that decade. The conviction that a room is built for the body before the camera.

She runs the studio in English, Russian and French, with clients across Dubai, the wider UAE, Paris and Moscow.

A room should hold you the way a chair from 1974 holds you. Comfortably, with intent, and without explanation. Lana, Founder

The Practice

Three Disciplines
Residential

Homes That Hold

Villas, apartments and penthouses across Palm Jumeirah, Bluewaters, Emirates Hills and Downtown. Built for the way a family actually lives in them, not the way a photograph would prefer.

Commercial

Workplaces With Intent

Head offices, showrooms and retail interiors. Spaces that work harder than they look, designed to age slowly. Recent work includes The Opus Office in Business Bay.

Hospitality

Rooms That Receive

Hotel suites, restaurants and lounges shaped around the arrival sequence. We design the moment a guest walks in first, and the rest of the room answers to it.

The Method

Six Principles

Principle I

Read the Room First

Every project begins with hours on site, with no sketchpad. We listen to the building before we answer it.

Principle II

The 70s Discipline

Soft curves, warm woods, oxblood and travertine, low silhouettes. The conviction that a room is built for the body.

Principle III

Material Over Ornament

The palette is short on purpose. Travertine, walnut, oat plaster, smoked oak, a single deep wine note repeated.

Principle IV

Daylight First

Fixtures only where the architecture cannot do the work itself. We design with the sun, not against it.

Principle V

Restraint Is the Material

The shortest palette wins. We add finishes one at a time, and stop the moment we cannot defend the next one.

Principle VI

Built to Age

A workspace that lasts is one whose finishes do not date themselves. We design for the tenth year, not the first.

Trajectory

The Path

Paris

Trained in Design, Paris

Lana trained at one of Paris' design schools, immersed in French modernism and the discipline of editorial restraint. The foundation of every project since.

2019

Noya Founded, Dubai

The studio opens in DIFC at ICD Brookfield Place, with a focus on residential and small commercial work for an international clientele.

2023

The Opus Office

Noya is commissioned to design a head office inside Zaha Hadid's Opus tower in Business Bay. The studio's largest commercial project to date.

2026

Bluewaters Residence

A coastal villa on Bluewaters Island enters design. Noya formalises its hospitality practice and adds a senior associate to the team.

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