United Arab EmiratesRapid Urbanization

Dubai

Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Burj al Arab – world’s only 7-star hotel

Burj al Arab lobby

The Atlantis Hotel is link by an underwater tunnel to the rest of the palm fronds

Sheik Mohammad’s place

Ice Bar

To be completed September 2009

October 2007

October 26, 2008

Cost: $4.1 billion

160 floors

2,684 feet high

Each tower is a 28-floor with an area of 30,000 squared foot. Not only that the tower will look inverted from the outside but it will look inverted from the inside as well. Mentioned examples are palm trees, other indoor plants, water fountains, elevators, and even the numbering sequence of floors.

The construction of the tower will start October 2007 and expected to end in October 2010.

Mall of the Emirates

Dubai Sports City