BG Group Marks 20 Years of Design + Build with a Vision for the Future of Luxury Living in Dubai

Two decades after its founding, BG Group celebrates a milestone that redefined what integrated luxury Design + Build means in the UAE — and announces its most ambitious chapter yet.

Dubai, August 2026 — BG Group, one of the first fully integrated Design + Build companies in the United Arab Emirates, marking its 20th anniversary, a milestone that traces the evolution of an industry and the enduring belief that the spaces people live in should be built with the same care as the life they are meant to hold.

Founded in Dubai in 2006 by entrepreneur and CEO Khalid Kaluti, Better Gardens began as a landscape contracting firm with a conviction that outdoor living mattered as much as the interior of a home. What followed was two decades of expansion, partnership, and deliberate growth that transformed a single company into a five-brand ecosystem spanning luxury villa design and construction, pools and landscape, smart home technology, Italian kitchen design, and real estate development.

Today, BG Group operates across six specialized entities, BG Villas, BG Pools and Landscapes, BG Smart, Pedini by BG, BG Properties, and Studio Bruno Guelaff, each built to a standard that has defined the group since its earliest days. The anniversary is not a moment of retrospect alone. BG Group uses it to announce a deliberate pivot toward a lifestyle-led approach to design and build, positioning the group for the next

phase of luxury living in the UAE and beyond.

A Partnership that Became an Industry Model

The formation of BG Group as it is known today was the result of a meeting between two people with complementary convictions. Khalid Kaluti brought construction expertise, entrepreneurial drive, and a deep understanding of how luxury clients in the UAE market think and invest. Bruno Guelaff, award-winning multi-disciplinary designer educated at the New York School of Interior Design and the first recipient of its BFA Travel Prize, brought a design language shaped by fifteen countries across twenty-two cities and a standard that refused to be diluted at any point in the build process.

Twenty Years.  One Ecosystem.

BG Group's evolution from a landscape contracting company to a multi-division group reflects both the ambition of its founders and the appetite of Dubai's luxury residential market for a genuinely integrated offering. Each brand within the group was added not for scale alone but because it filled the gap that the Design + Build model demanded.

BG Villas remains the flagship, the turnkey villa design and construction division that brought the founding vision to life at its most complete. BG Pools and Landscapes carry forward the origins of Better Gardens, designing outdoor environments that extend and complete residential experience. BG Smart, led by Simon Dzelotovic, introduced intelligent home automation to the group's offering at a time when the concept was

still emerging in the regional market, redefining what it means for a home to respond to how its occupants live.

Pedini by BG brought world-class Italian kitchen craftsmanship to Dubai through a partnership with the globally renowned brand, adding a dimension of culinary design to the group's interior offering. BG Properties, the most recent addition, extends the group's expertise into real estate development and investment advisory, completing the full arc of the luxury residential journey from acquisition through design, construction, and delivery.

The Next Chapter - a  Lifestyle - led Vision

BG Group's 20th anniversary marks not an endpoint but a deliberate reorientation. The group announces a strategic shift toward lifestyle-led design and build, a recognition that the clients who choose BG are not purchasing a service but investing in a way of living. The pivot reflects changes in how the UAE's luxury residential market has matured, and in how discerning clients now understand and articulate what they want from the spaces they inhabit.

The lifestyle approach places the experience of living, how a space feels in the morning, how it holds a family at its most ordinary and extraordinary moments, how it changes with the light and the season, at the center of every design and build decision. Architecture, interiors, technology, landscaping, and kitchen design are no longer conceived as separate disciplines that are then integrated. They are conceived

together, from the first conversation, as expressions of a single lived experience.

BG Properties, now actively developing premium residential projects in Dubai, will carry this philosophy into real estate development, creating homes that are designed from the inside out rather than constructed and then furnished. The group's expanded focus on the full residential lifecycle, from acquisition advisory through construction and delivery, positions BG Group as a strategic partner at every stage of how its clients

find, build, and inhabit the places they call home.

BG Group at Twenty Years - Key Milestones

2006 Better Gardens founded in Dubai by Khalid Kaluti. Landscape contracting and outdoor design.

2018 Better Gardens introduces European kitchens.

2019 BG Villas launches as the flagship turnkey villa design and construction division.

2020 BG Smart is established. Smart home automation integrated into the group offering.

2024 BG Properties launched. Real estate development and investment advisory added to the group.

2026 BG Group marks its 20th anniversary and announces its lifestyle-led vision for the next chapter.

About BG Group

BG Group is a multidisciplinary architecture and construction collective based in the United Arab Emirates. Established in 2006, the group brings together a portfolio of integrated brands focused on high-end residential design, build, and delivery. Its work spans architecture, interior design, landscape and pool construction, smart home systems, and property development, with an emphasis on cohesive, end-to-end project execution.

Headquartered in Dubai, BG Group operates through several divisions, including Studio Bruno Guélaff (design), BG Villas (turnkey construction), BG Pool & Landscape, BG Smart (technology integration), BG Properties (real estate), and the regional representation of Pedini (kitchens and wardrobes).

The firm’s portfolio includes a range of bespoke villas and private estates across some of the UAE’s most established neighborhoods.

Driven by a mission to elevate luxury living through thoughtful design, efficient execution, and uncompromising quality, BG Group continues to expand its presence.