Who Designed Sea Breeze: The Architect Roster, and Four Buildings Not in the Sales Catalogue

The developer publishes an architect credit for three of its forty sellable projects. The architects publish rather more - including four buildings under construction at Sea Breeze that appear nowhere in the sales catalogue at all.

This page is the roster: every design firm we can tie to Sea Breeze from the firm's own publications, what each one actually states, and the gap between that and the brochure. It exists because the resort's own site returns 403 to our tooling, which forced us to work from the designers' websites - and those turned out to be the better source anyway.

The Roster

Firm	Project(s) at Sea Breeze	What the firm itself publishes	In the sales catalogue?
Scott Brownrigg (London)	Sea Breeze Masterplan; Ribbon Tower	Masterplan: 18km coastline in three publications, 26km in one; completion 2035. Ribbon Tower: "Ongoing", value "Confidential", "tallest of a family of seven beacon lighthouses"	Masterplan is not a unit; Ribbon Tower: no
Tchoban Voss Architekten (Berlin)	5 Stones; Rixos Sea Breeze; Lot Hyatt; Venetian Harbour	All four "under construction". 5 Stones 127,000 m² GFA, 2029; Rixos 2029, 400 hotel rooms; Lot Hyatt 52,165 m² GFA, 2029; Venetian Harbour 24,325 m² GFA, 2027	None of the four
Killa Design (Dubai)	"Sea Breeze Baku"	Client "Confidential", type "High-Rise, Hospitality", features "Confidential", status "Design", year completed "Ongoing". No height, no units	No
Adel Zehni Architects	Caspian Dream Liner	11-storey apart-hotel on an artificial embankment island built for it	Yes - 226 apartments, 6 ha, 11 floors
Melike Altınışık Architects	Raffles & Swissôtel	Credited by the developer's own signing announcement, 1 April 2026	Yes - 458 residences
ELIE SAAB	Panorama by ELIE SAAB	A brand and interiors credit; we found no building architect named	Yes - 550 units

Every entry was read off the firm's own website on 28 October 2026, except the Melike Altınışık credit, which comes from the developer's announcement.

Three Credits Out of Forty

The sales catalogue holds 40 projects. We can name a published architect for three of them: Caspian Dream Liner (Adel Zehni), Raffles & Swissôtel (Melike Altınışık Architects), and Panorama, where ELIE SAAB is credited as a brand and interiors partner rather than as the building's architect.

That leaves roughly 37 projects with no architect anyone has published - including every delivered building, every Park Residences phase, and the whole of the second, third, fourth and fifth coastlines. Our project master list carries all forty with their prices and dates; it cannot carry a designer for most of them, because no designer is named.

Two cautions on that number. First, it is a floor, not a ceiling: we searched the firms we had reason to search, and a practice we have not thought to look up may well have a page for one of the 37. Second, an uncredited building is not a badly designed one - plenty of competent work goes unpublished. The point is narrower: for most of what is on sale here, you cannot look up who drew it.

Four Buildings Under Construction, None of Them for Sale

The Tchoban Voss row is the most interesting thing on this page. One Berlin practice publishes four Sea Breeze projects, all marked "under construction", and not one of them appears in the developer's 40-project catalogue.

Project	Status per architect	Completion	Published area	Published rooms and units
5 Stones	under construction	2029	127,000 m² GFA	two five-star hotels (~200-250 and 100-150 rooms); 500 apartments
Rixos Sea Breeze	under construction	2029	not published	~400 hotel rooms; 100-150 apartments
Lot Hyatt	under construction	2029	52,165 m² GFA	130 hotel rooms + 69 signature apartments; 147 apartments
Venetian Harbour	under construction	2027	24,325 m² GFA	not published

That is 203,490 m² of published gross floor area across the three that state one, plus a fourth that does not. For context, the catalogue's own largest projects are measured in hundreds of units rather than square metres, so these are not small.

The straightforward reading is that the catalogue lists what is for sale, and hotels under a brand agreement are not sold by the apartment. That accounts neatly for Rixos, Lot Hyatt and the hotel halves of 5 Stones. It accounts less neatly for the 500 apartments at 5 Stones and the 147 at Lot Hyatt, which are residential by the architect's own description and are in no price list we have seen.

What this means for a buyer is about the view and the noise, not the purchase. Four buildings on a 2027-2029 schedule, on the crescent peninsula and the beachfront, do not appear in any document a sales agent is likely to hand you. If what gets built next to your unit matters, this is the kind of thing to ask about by name.

Caspian Dream Liner: Two Official Sites, Two Completion Years

The ship-shaped building has its own dedicated official website, separate from the main resort site. The two do not agree.

	Main resort catalogue (read 25 Oct 2026)	Project's own site (read 28 Oct 2026)
Apartments	226	226
Island area	6 ha	6 ha
Storeys	11	11
Completion	May 2029	"Completion in 2027"

Everything matches except the date, which differs by about two years. Both are the developer's own publications, so this is not a brochure against a registry - it is one seller giving two answers.

We are not going to pick one. What we will say is which way the weight leans: May 2029 is the more specific figure, it is the one in the catalogue the units are actually sold from, and it is the more recent of the two readings. A bare "2027" on a project page is the kind of number that stops being updated. But a buyer should get the date from the contract and not from either page, and should treat a seller quoting 2027 as quoting the more optimistic of two official figures.

Adel Zehni's own site confirms the credit and the 11 storeys and publishes no date at all, which is consistent with both and settles neither. This is the same pattern our slippage audit tracks across the rest of the resort.

Killa Design Publishes Almost Nothing - Which Matters for the 323-Metre Figure

A 323-metre Cipriani tower on Half Moon Island, credited to Shaun Killa, circulates widely enough to be treated as settled. It is worth seeing how thin the primary record is.

Killa Design's own project page for "Sea Breeze Baku" publishes: client "Confidential", features "Confidential", status "Design", year completed "Ongoing". It gives no height, no floor count, no unit count, no hotel brand and no completion year. The description calls the tower "a contemporary landmark for Baku" and says nothing measurable.

So the firm confirms it has a Sea Breeze high-rise and hospitality project, and confirms nothing else. Every number attached to that tower in circulation - 323 metres, 127 residences, 116 hotel rooms, a 2031 completion - comes from secondary reporting, not from the architect and not from the developer. The Cipriani agreement itself is real and dated, 31 January 2026 in Milan, and we treat it that way in our hotel brands audit. The building's dimensions are a different question.

One detail deserves weight: the architect's own status is "Design", not "under construction". A building in design in late 2026 completing in 2031 is possible; a seller presenting 323 metres as a fixed fact is ahead of what either the architect or the developer has published.

Ribbon Tower and Oasis Crescent Exist on the Architect's Site Only

We had both of these marked as probably not real, on the grounds that the developer's site has no page for either. That was the wrong test, and the architect corrected it.

Scott Brownrigg publishes a Ribbon Tower project page: location Baku, status "Ongoing", value "Confidential", services masterplanning and architecture, with "Emin Agalarov" shown as a standalone heading where a client would sit. Its own text places it in context: it "acts as a focal point to a wider masterplan proposal", building on "the established success of the existing Sea Breeze development", and it is "the tallest of a family of seven beacon 'lighthouses' to dot the Sea Breeze coastline".

The same page documents Oasis Crescent, which "acts as a pivotal element and interface between the existing Sea Breeze masterplan" and the proposed western extension. So Oasis Crescent is not a phantom either - it is the name of the western extension's junction with the existing resort.

Two things follow. The seven lighthouses line retroactively explains the catalogue: Lighthouse 3 is delivered and Lighthouse 2 completes December 2027, and they are two of a planned seven, which is why the numbering looks odd. And neither Ribbon Tower nor Oasis Crescent is on sale or dated - they belong to a "wider masterplan proposal", which is architect's language for not yet committed. Our masterplan page covers the 18km-versus-26km question that the western extension probably explains.

What to Ask

1. Who is the architect of this specific building? For 37 of 40 projects, nobody has published an answer. Ask for the name and then look up the firm.
2. For Caspian Dream Liner: 2027 or May 2029? Two official pages give different years. Only the contract date counts.
3. What is scheduled on the crescent peninsula and the beachfront? 5 Stones, Rixos Sea Breeze and Lot Hyatt are under construction for 2029 and in no sales catalogue.
4. Are the 500 apartments at 5 Stones and the 147 at Lot Hyatt for sale, and when? The architect describes them as residential; no price list mentions them.
5. For the Cipriani tower: is there a published height from the architect or the developer? As of today there is not. Treat 323 metres as reported, not confirmed.
6. Which of the seven lighthouses is this? If a seller cannot say, they are working from a sheet, not the masterplan.

Sources

• Scott Brownrigg project list and project pages, scottbrownrigg.com/work/projects/, read 28 October 2026 - exactly two Sea Breeze projects: sea-breeze-masterplan and ribbon-tower. Ribbon Tower: Baku, Azerbaijan; status "Ongoing"; value "Confidential"; services "Masterplanning & Urbanism" and "Architecture"; "Emin Agalarov" shown without a client label; "tallest of a family of seven beacon 'lighthouses'"; Oasis Crescent described as the interface to a wider masterplan proposal. No height, floors, units, area or completion date on either count.
• Tchoban Voss Architekten project pages, tchobanvoss.de/en/projects/, read 28 October 2026 - four Baku projects, all "under construction": 5-stones (Sea Breeze, 2029, 127,000 m² GFA, five towers, two hotels of ~200-250 and 100-150 rooms, 500 apartments, banquet space for 1,000-1,500); rixos-sea-breeze (Sea Breeze, 2029, "The Rixos congress hotel with 400 rooms", 100-150 apartments, artificial crescent-shaped peninsula); lot-hyatt (Sea Breeze, 2029, 52,165 m² GFA, 130 hotel rooms + 69 signature apartments, 147 apartments); venetian-harbour-sea-breeze (Sea Breeze, 2027, 24,325 m² GFA). No page names a client, an operator or a brand agreement.
• Killa Design project page "Sea Breeze Baku", killadesign.com, read 28 October 2026 - client "Confidential"; type "High-Rise, Hospitality"; features "Confidential"; status "Design"; year completed "Ongoing"; no height, floors, units, brand or completion year.
• Adel Zehni Architects, "Caspian Dream Liner", adelzehni.com/en/architectures/caspian-dream-liner, read 28 October 2026 - "grandiose 11-storey apart-hotel"; artificial embankment island built for the project; no client, date, unit count or height.
• Caspian Dream Liner official project site, cdlseabreeze.az/en/architecture/, read 28 October 2026 - Adel Zehni credited as "Architect Caspian Dream Liner"; artificial island of 6 hectares; 226 apartments; 11 storeys; "Completion in 2027"; Emin Agalarov quoted as President of Agalarov Development.
• Sea Breeze official project pages, read 25 October 2026 - the 40-project catalogue, including Caspian Dream Liner at 226 apartments, 6 ha, 11 floors and May 2029, collected in .claude/seo/data/seabreeze-official-2026-10-25.csv. The resort's site has since returned 403 to our tooling, so this file is the record.
• The Cipriani signing of 31 January 2026 in Milan and the Melike Altınışık credit of 1 April 2026 are the developer's own announcements, tested in our hotel brands audit.

Not verified: whether 5 Stones, Rixos Sea Breeze, Lot Hyatt and Venetian Harbour are absent from the catalogue because they are not for sale or for some other reason; whether the residential units inside 5 Stones and Lot Hyatt will be sold; the operator of any hotel in those projects, none of which names one; the height, floor count and completion year of the Killa Design tower, none of which the firm publishes; whether Caspian Dream Liner completes in 2027 or May 2029; whether Ribbon Tower and Oasis Crescent are committed or proposal-stage; the architects of the other 37 catalogue projects; and whether any firm we did not search holds a page for one of them. One correction to our own file, 29 October 2026: we had flagged the polo-residences row as carrying a malformed completion field. It does not. The row is well formed; its floors value is 5,6-7, and the comma broke a quick column display we ran over the file, not the data.