Dubai in 1990 prior to the craziness



The same street in 2003



Last year



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


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The Dubai Water front. When completed it will become
the largest waterfront development in the world


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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.



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.




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.



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 Dubai Marina.

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 W orld 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 citi zens