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Hydropolis - World's 1st Underwater Hotel in Arabian Sea
- Shaped like numerical ‘8'; as big as London's Hyde Park;
covers 260 hectares of sea-bed
- Estimated cost: US$500 million
- 220 suites with a land station and connecting tunnel
- Designed by Joachim Hauser of Crescent Hydropolis Resorts PLC
- Hotel zones resemble the human motor and cardiovascular systems with the central sinus knot representing the pulse
- Aims to introduce people who do not dive or swim to the aquatic world
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Dancing Towers - Choreographed Theatrics in Business Bay
- Underlying theme - Dynamism through stasis
- 3 interlinking towers with hotel, offices and apartments
- Height (tentative): 330 meter
- Common podium for the buildings
- Twisting and twining creates an effect of ‘choreographed fluidity'
- Maximum visibility and utilization of natural light
- Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect, Zaha Hadid
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Dubai Pearl - Arabian jewel in TECOM
- A mixed-use development containing residential, hotel, theatre, retail and office developments linked together
- Complex expected to cost $810 million
- International retail and leisure zones
- 1500-seater art theatre
- An integrated city for 20,00 people
- A $3 bn project covering 1.4 sqm of Dubai media and technology free zone
- Located within New Dubai
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0-14 Tower - Perforated Marvel in Business Bay
- 22-storey commercial tower
- Named for its site designation (!)
- Encased in a 40 centimeter thick concrete shell with 1000 perforations
- Covers 300,000 square feet
- 0-14 sits on a 2-floor podium
- One meter gap between shell and main enclosure creates a cooling 'chimney effect'
- Designed by Reiser Unemoto P.C
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The Opus - Zaha Hadid's Magnum Opus in Business Bay
- 3 separate towers
- Covers 85,000 sq.m on an island plot
- Appears as a single cube with an asymmetrical ‘void' in the middle
- Overall effect of fluidity and oneness
- When fully lit, Opus would seem to hover above the ground
- Features a patterned glass façade
- 87% space efficiency; maximizes views from within
- Estimated cost: US$266.7 million
- Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Zaha Hadid
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Burj Al Alam - Floral Wonder in Business Bay
- Resembles a crystalline flower
- Full curtain wall system with 3 outer wall ‘petals'
- Also called ‘The World Tower' in English
- 501 meter skyscraper with 108 storeys
- Mixed use project with offices, apartments and shopping mall
- Set to accommodate 25,000 people; 4,300 parking spaces
- Has a 6-floor crown containing a Turkish bath, sky garden and club facilities
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Dubai Promenade - The Circle Beckons
- Located on its own peninsula facing the Gulf overlooking ‘The Palm Jumeirah'
- Built up area of development size is approx. 1,060,000 sq m
- Unique waterfront community with its own shoreline
- The Icon Hotel complements the hospitality part of Dubai Promenade
- Hotel features circular tower flanked by twin wave-like structures
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Palm Jumeirah - 8th Wonder of the World
- 92,234,000 cubic meters of sand used to build up landmass
- If all fill materials used to build ‘The Palm were placed end to end, a wall 2 m high and 0.5 m thick could circle the world 3 times
- DGPS (Differential Global Positioning System) was used to create precise shape of the palm
- The Crescent acts as a breakwater and is able to withstand a 4-m high wave
- The Crescent is built from the bottom up, beginning with the sand, geo-textile fiber, small rocks and then medium sized rocks, once above water
- 100 m opening on both sides of the Crescent ensures that sea water is refreshed every 14 days
- Sub-sea tunnel, an engineering feat, connects the Crescent to the main body of the island
- Tunnel is 1,400 km long and 40 m wide with 2 cells for traffic and a service/emergency cell in between
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Al Burj - Aspiring to be the Tallest in the World
- Located near Jumeirah Lake Towers and Dubai Marina
- Constructed by Nakheel in collaboration with South Korean Samsung Engineering & Construction, Japanese Shimizu Corporation and Australian Grocon
- Proposed height to be 1,400 m (4,593 ft), proposed to be the tallest tower in the world
- Design include 3 towers connected by sky bridges with 2 twin spires and 1 tower shorter than the others
- Al Burj to have 228 floors with total floor area of 1,490,000 m sq (16,038,200 sq ft)
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Dubai Towers - Dancing Flames at The Lagoons
- 4-tower complex located in Al Dana district of ‘The Lagoons'
- Inspired by movement of candlelight
- Mixed-use towers range between 57 and 94 floors
- Features apartments, offices, hotel, retail outlets & restaurants
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The World - Unique World off the Coast of Dubai
- A large group of 300 islands built in the shape of a world map
- The entire coverage area of development is 9 km in length and 6 km in width, encircled by an oval breakwater
- Estimated cost $14 billion
- Built primarily using sand dredged from the sea.
- Located 4 kilometers off the shore of Jumeirah
- Each island in the archipelago ranges from about 150,000 square feet to 450,000 square feet
- Formula 1 World Champion Michael Schumacher presented with one of the islands
- Marine or air transport can only be used to commute between islands
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Burj Al Arab- World's Tallest Hotel on Jumeirah Beach
- Resembles the sail of a dhow, a type of Arabian sailing vessel
- Designed by British architect Tom Wright of WS Atkins PLC
- At 321metres, it is the world's tallest hotel, presently (excluding mixed-use properties)
- Situated on an artificial island 280meters out from Jumeirah beach, and is connected to the mainland by a private curving bridge
- Comprises 28 double-storey floors and accommodates 202 bedroom suites with smallest occupying 169 square meters and the largest covering 780 square meters
- Features the tallest atrium lobby in the world, at 180 meters (590 ft)
- A suspended helipad supported by a cantilever atop the building
- 202 duplex suites are adorned with stone (granite) from Brazil, and marble and glass from Italy, and the finest Irish linens
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Burj Dubai - World's Tallest Tower
- Tallest man-made structure on Earth. As of 12 May 2008, Burj Dubai had reached a height of 636 m (2,087 ft), with 160 completed floors
- Located at the First Interchange along Sheikh Zayed Road
- Estimated cost: US$4.1 billion
- Constructed by Samsung Engineering & Construction, the firm behind the Petronas Twin Towers, Malaysia and the Taipei 101, Taiwan.
- The cladding system is designed to withstand Dubai's extreme summer temperatures.
- To house World's first Armani hotel
- 200 m of dancing fountain at the feet of the tower
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