Dubai news: hotels, attractions, shopping, work, events.
Dubai news: hotels, attractions, shopping, work, events.
All about Dubai: tourist guide, luxury hotels, top attractions, malls, real estate, vacancies, business, cultural events.
The world's longest urban zipline launches from a Dubai skyscraper. XLine: a kilometre of cable across the Marina at 80 km/h — face-first, between the towers. In most cities you look at the skyline. Here you fly through it.
Открыть канал и посмотреть медиаBefore air conditioning, Dubai engineered its own breeze. Al Fahidi's wind towers pulled cool air down into coral-stone houses — a nineteenth-century climate system that still works. The oldest quarter of the city was already thinking like the newest.
Открыть канал и посмотреть медиаDubai's opera house refuses to stay one building. Shaped like a sailing dhow, its floors and walls reconfigure — theatre one night, concert hall the next, a banquet by the weekend. Even the architecture here has a second career.
Открыть канал и посмотреть медиаThe world's first 360-degree infinity pool hangs 200 metres over Dubai. Aura Skypool — a ring of water at the crown of a tower, the Palm on one side, the skyline on the other. Swimming was horizontal until Dubai got involved.
Открыть канал и посмотреть медиаFrom one port in Dubai grew a company that runs them on six continents. DP World moves roughly one in ten of the world's shipping containers through its terminals. Check the label on almost anything you own. Odds are, Dubai touched it on the way.
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Открыть канал и посмотреть медиаMore than a tenth of Dubai is protected desert. Inside its reserves, the Arabian oryx — once extinct in the wild — walks free again among the dunes. The city that builds everything chose to leave this untouched.
Открыть канал и посмотреть медиаUnder Dubai runs the world's largest district cooling network. Chilled water flows through hidden arteries to thousands of towers — one system exhaling cool air for an entire city. The skyline gets the photos. The basement does the work.
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