Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dubai in 1990
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dubai in 1990
The same street in 2003
Last year
Dubai is said to currently have 15-25% of all the world's cranes.
The
Dubai Waterfront. When completed it will
become the largest waterfront development in the
world.
All of this was built in the last 5
years, including that island that looks like a palm tree.
The Palm
Islands in
Dubai . New Dutch dredging technology was used
to create these massive man made islands.
They are the largest artificial islands in the world and can be seen from space.
Three of these Palms will
be made with the last one being the largest of them all.
Upon completion, the resort will have 2,000 villas, 40 luxury hotels, shopping centers, movie theaters, and many other facilities.
It is expected to support
a population of approximately 500,000 people. It is advertised as being visible
from the moon.
The
World Islands .
300 artificially created islands in the shape of the world. Each island will
have an estimated cost of $25-30 million.
The Burj al-Arab hotel in
Dubai . The world's tallest
hotel. Considered the only '7
star' hotel and the most luxurious hotel in the world. It stands on an
artificial island in the sea.
Hydropolis, the world's first
underwater hotel. Entirely built in
Germany and then assembled in
Dubai , it is scheduled to be completed by
2009 after many delays.
The Burj Dubai.
Construction began in 2005 and is expected to be complete by 2008. At an estimated height of
over 800 meters, it will easily be world's tallest building when finished.
It will be almost 40%
taller than the current tallest building, the Yaipei 101.
This is what downtown
Dubai will look like
around 2008-2009. More than 140 stories of
the Burj Dubai have already been completed. It is already the world's
tallest man made structure and it is still not scheduled to be completed for at
least another year.
The Al Burj. This will be the
centerpiece of the Dubai
Waterfront.
Once completed it will
take over the title of the tallest structure in the world from the Burj Dubai.
Recently it was announced that the
final height of this tower will be 1200 meters. That would make it more
than 30% taller than the Burj Dubai and three times as tall as the
Empire State
Building .
The Trump International
Hotel & Tower, which will be the centerpiece of one of the palm islands,
The Palm Jumeirah.
Dubailand. Currently, the
largest amusement park collection in the world is Walt Disney World Resort in
Orland , which is also the largest
single-site employer in the United
states with 58,000 employees.
Dubailand will be twice
the size.
Dubailand will be built
on 3 billion square feet (107 miles^2) at an estimated $20 billion price tag. The site will include a
purported 45 mega projects and 200 hundred other smaller projects.
DubaiSports
City. A huge collection of sports arenas located in
Dubailand.
Currently, the Walt
Disney World Resort is the #1 tourist destination in the world. Once fully completed,
Dubailand will easily take over that title since it is expected to attract
200,000 visitors daily.
The Dubai
Marina is an
entirely man made development that will contain over 200 highrise buildings
when finished. It will be home to some
of the tallest residential structures in the world. The completed first phase
of the project is shown. Most of the other high
rise buildings will be finished by 2009-2010.
The Dubai Mall will be
the largest shopping mall in the world with over 9 million square feet of
shopping and around 1000 stores. It will be completed in
2008.
Ski
Dubai , which is already open, is the largest
indoor skiing facility in the world. This is a rendered image
of another future indoor skiing facility that is being planned.
Some of the tallest
buildings in the world, such as Ocean
Heights and The Princess
Tower , which will be the largest
residential building in the world at over a 100 stories, will line the
Dubai Marina .
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