Dubai - bigger than you

[mwracing]

i copied the next few posts directly from revscene, some people dont have accounts so you cant view it.

Copied from dubberz


Growth of Dubai


Dubai in 1990 prior to the craziness

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.

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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.

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 underwater 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.

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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.

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 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.

Dubai Sports 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.

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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this **** really makes me wonder why canada doesnt have crazy **** like this, we export more oil to american than anywhere else in the world. Where is all our oil money going?

[deliberate32]

looks like a crazy city from starwars...

[DarkCaporaL]

Yeah and the cost of life back there is also from starwars...

[CanadianGTR]

Dubai is one of the few places that realize that oil isn't forever, and they are trying to exploit their oil money as much as they can to improve their tourism appeal so when the oil runs out, the country doesn't go broke.

I've always wanted to go, and hopefully will have the chance in the near future.

[DarkCaporaL]

Indoor shopping mall snow skying FTW.

[Wants_a_GTR]

The main problem with Dubai is that it will be WAY to expensive for any normal person. To rent a hotel room there will probably cost a few thousand a week easy. The place looks like fun, but i would rather spend that kinda money in my own country... or on cars :-D

[Invictor]

Aw man, that place looks crazy.... I have to for sure take a trip there sometime lol

[QuietChaos]

All these buildings and structures are insane..but you haven't even mentioned the ridiculous amount of sweet cars over there yet.

[CanadianGTR]

All these buildings and structures are insane..but you haven't even mentioned the ridiculous amount of sweet cars over there yet.

I had a friend who picked up a Ferrari from Dubai (can't remember what it was exactly) for like 40k below what they were selling for here after shipping/duty and everything because it was left out in a sand storm and the paint was dulled. He spent a grand getting the thing detailed METICULOUSLY by some hardcore detail shop in the GTA and it looks brand new. Too bad the insurance is killing him.

Must be nice though eh?
"Paint's faded... that's no good... meh, sell it. I'll just get another one."

[QuietChaos]

I'm sure there are so many Ferrari's and other assorted supercars and luxury cars in Dubai, demand is a little down anyways. I'd love to go there, if just to gawk at the cars.

[Caithness]

I might get a DFS -Directed Field Study- job in Dubai this upcoming April or May.

Crossing my fingers....what a place though...it's just too far out for me. I don't even know what to think of some of the things going on over there.