[emersonbiggins]

Culled this from an e-mail I recently received.
There can be no accounting for taste, I suppose...
or common sense, either.




In Dubai, current projects that are being built/have been built:


Burj Al Arab
321m in height, tallest hotel in the world. 220 rooms.


Palm Island
Three artificial islands in the shape of palm trees will shelter nearly 500 apartments, 2,000 villas, 25 hotels and 200 luxury shops. Palm Jumeirah, the most advanced of the islands, will be completed by the end of 2005.
125 km of additional coastline will have been created.


Burj Dubai
800m tower, to be completed by 2008. Construction started in Jan. 05.


Hydropolis
Underwater hotel, completely assembled in Germany, to be submerged in sea near Dubai in 2006. Prices start at $500/night.


Dubai Marina
New city, costs over $10 billion. Will house 120,000 people.


Dubai City Sports
Immense, 7.5 sq km sports complex will have cricket, rugby, football, etc. arenas & associated housing and development


The World, Dubai
300 artificial islands, in the shape of the 'world', obviously. One island will cost somewhere between $6m and $37m USD. To be completed in late 2005.


Dubailand Dinosaur Park
Theme park with over 45 different attractions, including this one, envisioning prehistoric lands, complete with flora and fauna of the period.


Dubailand Ski Dome
An indoor ski dome, enough said.

[skateari]

Wow, some of that stuff is amazing. However, more then half of it (most of the projects) seem to take place, or finish in the future.

Seems like a pretty good idea to me. Start building very expensive, and beautiful things, and until there finished (many years away) the country would have no interest cutting oil production for any reason (politial, economical or simpily saving it for the future). If they want these beautiful things to be finished, they better keep pumpin, or start pumpin more even, that seems to be the mentality.

Have to admit, snowboarding in a glass dome in the desert?? That would be interesting, would have to make a trip to do that. Anyone know how Americans are treated in Dubai??

[rockdoc123]

Dubai is definitely the Las Vegas of the Middle East...interestingly enough I think it isn't as much oil money as it is tourist dollars now funding development. Sheik Zayed went to great lengths to diversify the economy into one mainly driven by tourism a number of years ago.

[lotrfan55345]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rockdoc123', 'D')ubai is definitely the Las Vegas of the Middle East...interestingly enough I think it isn't as much oil money as it is tourist dollars now funding development. Sheik Zayed went to great lengths to diversify the economy into one mainly driven by tourism a number of years ago.

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('skateari', '
')Have to admit, snowboarding in a glass dome in the desert?? That would be interesting, would have to make a trip to do that. Anyone know how Americans are treated in Dubai??

[lotrfan55345]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('skateari', '
')Have to admit, snowboarding in a glass dome in the desert?? That would be interesting, would have to make a trip to do that. Anyone know how Americans are treated in Dubai??

[Aedo]

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Hydropolis
Underwater hotel, completely assembled in Germany, to be submerged in sea near Dubai in 2006. Prices start at $500/night.

[Antimatter]

Thats some nifty stuff! I'll try not to think about how much energy it takes to run a snow dome in the desert lol

[emersonbiggins]

Well, file this under "I can't effing believe that someone actually built this!"
It's the SKI DOME - they ACTUALLY BUILT IT! It's fully operational.

Ski Dubai!

Dubai Ski Dome