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Downtown Dubai – A collection of my pictures on VerticalDubai.com
A small collection of my “Downtown Dubai” section on VerticalDubai.com
#1 Tallest Building of 2010: Burj Khalifa
The tallest building of the year is also the tallest building in the world. Soaring an impressive 828 meters into the sky (that’s 2,717 feet for Americans), the Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the tallest man-made structure built to date.
Experience 48 hours in Dubai
My tour of this mind-boggling metropolis begins at Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building at 828m. “Don’t be afraid,” tour guide Ola tells us as we walk towards the lift. “The lift goes at 64km/h, but you will not even feel it.”
Object of desire: Duemilaotto kitchen
As the great and good among Italy’s furnishing, design and construction companies prepare to celebrate next week (with a party at that beacon of Italian style, the Armani Hotel Dubai) the launch of a new online portal for the design trade, it seems only right that my object of desire should epitomise Italy.
Developers sell top assets to pay off debt
The company made a healthy profit of Dh359m on those sales, but it lost high-end office buildings that were yielding returns as high as 10 per cent a year. At least one of the buildings was among the sought-after Emaar Square properties near the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
High fashion learns to love selling online
In addition to Armani’s expensive catwalk collections, the store showcases his children’s wear, a bookshop, flower shop and a branch of every celebrity’s favourite restaurant, Nobu. Soon, it will also have an Armani Hotel – to go with the one already opened in Dubai.
Dubai’s Burj Khalifa is Still World’s Tallest Building, Remains 90 Percent Vacant
With only about 75 of the 900 apartments in the tower occupied, asking rents in the tower have fallen almost 50 percent, Better Homes sales adviser Laura Adams told Gulf News. Studio apartments are now available for about $1,800 a month, down from $3,000, while two-bedroom units once priced at $7,100 a month now rent for about $4,300.
Dubai’s Emaar Q3 profit down 7.0 percent
Emaar said net profits dropped to 612 million dirhams (166.8 million dollars) in the quarter ending September 30, compared to 655 million dirhams in the corresponding period last year. The developer that built the world’s tallest tower, Burj Khalifa, said however that its revenues increased 43 percent to 2.8 billion dirhams in the same period.
Dubai’s DEPA eyes 20% growth in 2011
In terms of acquisitions, Sweid said these might be “further down the line now that we’re consolidating all the business that we have”. In terms of its work on the Burj Khalifa, Sweid said the full value of the contract had been paid in full and on time by Emaar, although the firm was pursuing a claim against Samsung, the primary contractor on the tower, as work took longer than expected.
Burj Khalifa Dubai – The tallest building in the world
World tallest building shot from the entrance to the Armani Hotel
