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How many of us could find Dubai on the map in 5
minutes??
What a difference in 17 years. Just
shows what a little oil money can do.
Amazing…and there are people in the world who do not have enough to eat,
or decent drinking water…But that’s not our problem, right?
Wrong.
 Dubai in
1990
 The
same street in 2003
 Last
year
  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 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.
 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 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.
 Hydropolis,
the world's first under water hotel. Entirely built in Germany and
then
assembled inDubai, 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 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 worlds 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. This is
a city on crack.
 hotel.
It is expected to be finished by 2009. At 480 meters it will only be 28
meters shorter
than
theTaipei 101.
 of
the palm islands, The Palm Jumeirah.
  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.
 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 DubaiMarina.
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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