Dubai- Past And Present

Dubai in 1990






The same street in 2003







In 2005








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







The Dubai Waterfront.









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.







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 in Dubai






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.







DubaiSports City
A huge collection of sports arenas located in Dubailand.






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

Some other crazy facts:
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