The realization of the mixed-use development’s stacked yet offset modules, reminiscent of a giant building- block toy, required more than 50 international design firms and construction consultants.
Situated on the Dubai waterfront between Bluewaters Island and Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Harbour covers 1.85 million sq m and includes complex underground utilities, arterial roads, flyovers, bridges and a monorail.
Michael Goodman/ENR When the public relations man for an emerging, multibillion-dollar real estate development concedes there are probably 10 schemes just as big within an hour’s drive, then you know you must be in Dubai. When complete, Dubai Festival City will have 70,000 residents in 20,000 homes and a daily population of over twice that number. At its site, by Dubai airport, nearly $4 billion of construction is now in hand, representing just a third of the total plan. Over a large tract of desert, stretching south from the city, Dubai is building an entire tourism and leisure industry for
Michael Goodman/ENR Concrete pumps must reach 550 m. Speculation among supertall-building pundits once had the $1.1-billion Burj Dubai rising 800 meters or more. Currently, the developer admits to only 700-plus. The tower’s architect-engineer is sworn to say only 600-m-plus. And the main contractor claims not to know the final height. The secret gets harder to keep as the tower, now at about 80 stories, rises toward its pinnacle, at an average of one floor every three days. Whatever its final stopping point, Burj Dubai is on course to supersede the world record holder, the 509-m-tall Taipei 101, by summer, says
Nakheel Atkins Jumeirah's "stem" is a major transportation corridor, including a monorail, all watched over by Dubai's own Trump Tower. Some 140,000 people will live and work on the reclaimed land. Dubai’s explosive buildout may be no better exemplified than its construction of a series of palm-shaped islands directly offshore of the coastline. Discernable from space, the islands will host a number of pricey, ultra-luxury developments for a wealthy clientele drawn to the emirate’s business centers and leisure resorts. Occupants of villas and apartments built on fronds of Dubai’s 560-hectare artificial Palm Jumeirah island this month are to begin moving