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Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo is managed by Emaar Retail, the leisure and retail arm of Emaar Properties. Other leisure components in Emaar Retail’s portfolio are the Olympic-sized Dubai Ice Rink; the UAE largest megaplex with 22-screens, Reel Cinemas; the region’s largest SEGA indoor theme park, SEGA Republic; and the award-winning children’s edutainment centre, KidZania®.

The spectacular opening ceremony that marked the Burj Khalifa's appointment with history is now receding into memory, but the sense of anticipation has only started to build up for the home and office owners in the skyscraper.

The opportunity to experience the "Stay with Armani" proposition is now a reality. Armani Hotel Dubai has unveiled the online booking system that has gone live yesterday, and bookings can be made in real time at www.armanihotels.com.

Biggest accomplishment for CoxGomyl in the region so far is the hand over of the world's most complicated project: The task to keep the 24,000 window panels' façade of the world's tallest building Burj Khalifa in Dubai spotless. CoxGomyl Integrated Solution Division got involved in the Burj Khalifa project at an early stage in order to offer esthetic solutions by integrating all external maintenance and cleaning facilities into the building design.

Fibre optics specialists help wire Dubai's Burj Khalifa Tower. A small business in Melbourne has touted its role in the rollout of an optical fibre network built for the world's tallest tower, Dubai's Burj Khalifa Tower. Australian-owned Warren and Brown Technologies (WBT) provided equipment and training to Bond Communications - the company in Dubai commissioned to provide the complete audio-visual solutions for the 828 metre-high tower.

IF you can imagine it, Dubai will create it. Islands in the shape of palm trees, or the planet? No problem. In fact Dubai gets quite hung up on superlatives. It has the world's tallest building in the Burj Khalifa (formerly the Burj Dubai), which soars to 800m (2,625 feet) and has more than 160 storeys.

World's Tallest Building Grand Opening Timelapse recorded with Canon EOS 500D and edited with Final Cut Pro. Burj Dubai or Burj Khalifa inauguration time lapse in Dubai United Arab Emirates

To get to "At the Top," the observation deck's, you have to enter through The Dubai Mall’s lower-ground level. Before you pop your ears on the elevator up, brush up on your knowledge of Dubai and the building with multimedia displays like "Dubai Then and Now," "From Earth to the Sky" and "From Vision to Reality." You'll also see a big illuminated model of the Burj Khalifa, formerly called the Burj Dubai, where you can learn about the skyscraper.

A last-minute decision to change the name of the skyscraper from Burj Dubai to Burj Khalifa reflected a political shift within the United Arab Emirates. Dubai’s tower now carries the name of Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the ruler of neighboring Abu Dhabi and the president of the emirates, who reluctantly rode to Dubai’s rescue last month with a $10 billion bailout.

Delta Sound has provided sound syncronisation and fireworks for the opening of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the tallest man-made structure in the world. In a ceremony witnessed by thousands of Dubai residents and millions via television, Delta Sound produced a light and sound display to mark the $1.5bn tower's official opening earlier this month.