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Move over Burj Dubai, and make room for a new generation of supertowers! Dubai, formerly known as the modest "city of merchants," has been laying out a new foundation for urban growth with gleaming new high-rises climbing vertically from the desert port. The Burj Dubai which opens in June 2009 will be the world's tallest skyscraper topping with 160 habitable floors. The mixed use residential and commercial tower will also unveil Armani's debut hotel. See the Burj Dubai site for further info here > http://www.burjdubai.com.

Meanwhile, eleven newer projects are planned in Dubai that will make up a new class of supertowers, rising upwards with more than 100 habitable floors each, including EP Site 09 (pictured). Find out more in this Gulf News article contributed by Business Editor Saifur Rahman (04 May 2008).
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22 responses
Dubai will become city of supertowers

  • This is a place on my list to move to after I graduate.
    Ice_cream_Man
  • The UAE is storming ahead in it's development of new buildings and even whole new cities!

    Check the link for more info on the plans to build a completely 'green city' in Abu Dhabi.

    http://current.com/items/88935430_green_city_to_rise_in...
    mattbrawn
  • Lol...I imagine they look like the dildos and toasters that would be featured in the movie Tron.
    MissJonaLyn
  • i would really love visiting dubai one day.

    too bad it's so damn expensive xD
    yonie
  • its easier if you get a job there, its a damned expensive place and you need a car to get everywhere, and i wouldn't put a lot of faith in the metro, the construction might be sound but the management is pathetic haha
    Kabimbi
  • This picture is the USA SAVING Plan at work!
    ArtLiquidBlogspot
  • there is better skiing in Dubai , year round , given no off seasons , than there is in Co. .
    malathion
  • I don't know about you but that is COOL!!!!!



    ANDREWS
  • Indeed Very beautiful, Why cant America be building like this??
    ArtLiquidBlogspot
  • I don't think youi are seeing the big picture. All that greedy oil money trying to buy legitimacy. It is a country where many people are considered second class citizens, if you get my drift. Think about it, it looks cool but it is really hot.
    Robroy1
  • this is all because of oil. they are unfathomably wealthy because of oil. regardless of the price to build, no one will be able to afford to live there
    diode
  • ha ha some people do afford to live there, mostly if you work for a company with interests there or your company is based there its in there interest to have you there. and there are some reasonably priced housing areas and suburbs out in the desert, but you gota have a car.
    Kabimbi
  • Inspiring. . . Well all that oil money has go somewhere.
    Nawid
  • Gee, now if only America had trillions of dollars in surpluss to perform such amazing infrastructure improvements...oh wait :( We used to then we forgot to make an energy policy and gave it all to Dubai :(
    ocanada
  • dont we have oil in Alaska?
    JMTJ
  • Does anyone else think of Atlantis when looking at this monument to excess?
    Marilynn_Murray
  • Miss J - thanks for that image that I can't get out of my head now - lol. Next the 100 story vagina?
    patsarts
  • I'm having a" Blade Runner "nightmare.
    andromeda
  • If you do not have a job in Dubai, they deport you. ALL unemployed are deported. So yeah get a job BEFORE moving there.
    RudyRudell
  • you have to love the way that dubai has embraced such devastatingly beautiful & challenging designs.
    blackdaylight
  • The world's greatest architects go there to plant their ideas. there also building a man-made lake around the city.
    AlbeeYap
  • Dubai is a gem. It's a little pricey, but a must visit city.
    merasyad

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