After the emirate expected tons of tourists to flock to its outrageously insane buildings and shopping districts, Dubai undertook construction of an automated metro line. The first leg will open next week, on September 9, 2009.
However, when it opens, it…
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While Dubai has been associated with astonishing growth over the last decade, the economic crisis has hit the city-state hard.
In the last few months alone, most of its prisoners have been incarcerated for bounced checks, its lost the QE2, and…
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The Burj Dubai, soon to be the world’s tallest tower at 818 m, is set to open on December 2, 2009, according to Arabian Buiness.
The magazine’s source was a “senior architect working on the project, who said: “This will be…
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While Dubai has been known for a massive boom in recent years, since the global economic crisis, Icarus may just have flown too high on borrowed wings.
In addition to not getting the QE2, a delay on the Burj Dubai, and…
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Yet another one of Dubai’s major developers, Nakheel, is feeling the crunch.
The owner of the famed Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise liner paid nearly 60 million € in 2007 for the iconic vessel and had been hoping to turn it…
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In what is surely the greatest example of Dubai’s ostentatiousness, the Burj Dubai’s (Dubai Tower) developers say that it will be open for business later this year. The tower, at 818 meters high, already is the world’s tallest human-made structure.
This building,…
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