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What a difference in 17 years. Just shows what a
little oil money can do.
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Amazing Pictures of Dubai having one of the best architectural and
styles in the world. Its no more just a dessert or a OIL palace but a
unique model of amazing structures' of 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 artificia l
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.
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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.
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The World Islands. 300 artificially created islands
in the shape of the world. Each island will
have an estimated cost of $25-30 million.
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The Burj al-Arab hotel in
Dubai. The worlds 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.
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Hydropolis, the world's first under water hotel.
Entirely built in
Germany and then
assembled in
Dubai, it is scheduled to be completed by
2009 after many delays.
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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
the current tallest building, the
Yaipei 101.
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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
worlds tallest man made structure and it is
still not scheduled to be completed for at least
another year.
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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.
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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.
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The Burj al Alam, or The World Tower. Upon
completion it will rank as the world's
highest hotel. It is expected to be finished by
2009. At 480 meters it will only be 28 meters
shorter than
theTaipei 101.
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The
Trump International Hotel & Tower, which will
be the centerpiece of one of
the palm islands, The Palm Jumeirah.
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Dubailand. Currently, the largest amusement park
collection in the world is
Walt Disney World Resort
in Orlando, which is also the largest single-site
employer in the United states with 58,000
employees. Dubailand will be twice the size.
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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.
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DubaiSports City . A huge collection of sports
arenas located in Dubailand.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The UAE Spaceport would be the first spaceport in the world if
construction ever gets under way.
I'm not joking...
Some other crazy .. The Dubai Metro system, once completed, will become the
largest fully
automated rail system in the world. The Dubai World Central International
Airport will become
the largest airport in size when it is completed. It will also eventually
become the busiest airport
in the world, based on passenger volume. There are more construction workers
in Dubai than
there are actual citizens.
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