Dubai......Impossible City

Have anyone hear about Dubai? If you have, you would probably be amazed with all the unbelievable, insane facilities, structures and buildings at there. Dubai is the fastest developing city in UAE. The city is changing rapidly in a very short time. All the planned development is beyond the limit in the technologies, engineering and architecture in the history of man kind. A lot of new engineering and technologies has been introduced in there, now all the main architects, contractors and engineers in the world are working there. We can see a lot of new 'things' which we never see or expect before. The construction workers in Dubai is more than the actual citizens. Currently, more than 25% of the world's cranes is in Dubai. Not only that, Dubai also break a lot of new records like the largest, the longest and the tallest. Dubai is indeed making impossible to possible. Some of the projects in Dubai have caught the eye of the world.

Burj Dubai, it's a name of the soon to be completed tallest building in the world. The construction of this super tower has began in 2005 and expected to complete around September 2009. With an estimated height of more than 800 meters, it is already the world tallest even though it is still under construction. It is currently the tallest man made structure ever built. This supertall skyscraper will have around 160 floors for multipurpose uses. The Burj Dubai will comprises of hotel, apartment and mall. The height of this building is so scary that at the top of the building, you can see the round shape of the earth.

Dubai also build a artificial island named Palm Jumeirah. It was completed and officially opened not long ago. Palm Jumeirah is the largest artificial island in the world. Three of the these islands will be built called The Palm Islands with the last one being largest of them all. This island is so large that it can be seen from the space. The whole island is look like the palm tree and is connected to the main land with a bridge. Upon completion, the resorts will have villas, hotels, shopping centres, theaters, with population of approximately 500,000 peoples. Besides The Palm Islands, there are also The World Islands project. This huge project will have 300 artificial islands in the shape of a world map. Each of these island offered for sale at a price of 15 and 50 million USD.

The world's first underwater hotel called Hydropolis is also planned in Dubai. The design of this building enable people to see fish and sea creatures in the building. It will divided into three parts, land station to welcome the guests, connecting tunnel to transport people to the hotel and the hotel itself. It is self-acclaimed to be a 10-star hotel. However, due to some problems, the project is currently delayed.

Dubai will build an entertainment complex twice the size of the current largest amusement park collection in the world which is Walt Disney Resort in Orlando. Dubailand will be built on 3 billion square feet which include 45 mega projects and 200 smaller projects. Some of the mega projects include Legoland Dubai, Universal Studios Dubai, Dubai Sports City, Warner Bros. Movie World, Dubai Motor City and Mall of Arabia which will be the world's largest shopping mall.

There are also a place for snow activity in Dubai which is Ski Dubai. Ski Dubai is one of the largest ski resorts in the world. This mall resort is already opened and is part of the Mall of the Emirates, one of the largest shopping malls in the world.

Rotating tower is another new thing in the world. Rotating tower or rotating building is proposed in Dubai where the each floor of the building can rotate 360 degrees. The shape of the whole building can change during the day. This special designed building using solar energy and have special elevator for vehicles.

Besides all these amazing projects, there are other more crazy projects include Al Burj, a supertall skyscraper taller than 1000 meters, UAE spaceport, Dubai World Central International Airport, when it completed will become largest airport in the world and Dubai Metro system, largest fully automated rail system in the world. Dubai is making all the impossible become possible. The world is focus on Dubai now and they are making crazy and insane. I would like to go to the place to discover myself what actually is going on at there? They are like building a dream land.