Thursday, July 10, 2008

The New Dubai - 20 Years Back To 10 Years Ahead

This was in 1971, 37 years ago...

1971

Thirty years ago there was a dirt...

Dirt

Planned in 1975

1975

Dubai in 1990 prior to the craziness

1990

In 2003...

2003

During night time...

Night Time

The madness... Dubai is said to currently have 15-25% of all the world's cranes.

Dubai World Cranes

The Dubai Waterfront. When completed it will become the largest waterfront development in the world.

Dubai Water Front

All of this was built in the last 5 years, including that island that looks like a palm tree.

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.

Luxury Hotels

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 World

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.

Barj Hotel

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.

Hydropolis

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.

Burj_Dubai Burj Dubai

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.

Downtown

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.

Al Burj

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 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.

Burj Al Alam

The Trump International Hotel & Tower, which will be the centerpiece of one of the Palm Islands, The Palm Jumeirah.

Trumph

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. Dubai land will be twice the size. Dubai land 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.

Dubai Wheel

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.

Dubailand

Dubai Sports City. A huge collection of sports arenas located in Dubailand.

Sports City

The Dubai Marina is an entirely man made development that will contain over 200 high rise 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.

Dubai Marina

Adding to the superlatives rising on the Dubai skyline is One Central Park, a mixed-use building that will feature the world's highest apartment. A sense of loftiness is communicated in the building's design, which places the residential section of the structure above buttressed "fins" that separate the public spaces from the private ones.

One Central Park

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.

Dubai Mall

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.

Sky Dubai

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.

Ocean Heights_Princess Tower

Some other crazy facts about Dubai

The UAE Spaceport would be the first spaceport in the world if construction ever gets under way.

UAE Spacesport

The Dubai Metro system, once completed, will become the largest fully automated rail system in the world.

Dubai Metro

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.

Dubai_World_Central_Airport

There are more construction workers in Dubai than there are actual citizens.

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