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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 Burj Khalifa, in Dubai—the new holder of the title of World’s Tallest Building—is no less extravagant a media gesture. Unlike Wright’s design, to which it bears a startling resemblance, this building is very real—all one hundred and sixty stories (or two thousand seven hundred and seventeen feet) of it.

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.

Dubai's crown prince inaugurated the first international branch of the Manhattan institution, famous for its "big brown bag" totes, in the Middle East's biggest shopping mall Sunday. Bloomie's Dubai outpost includes a 13,600 square metre clothing and accessories store and a nearby 5,000 square metre home furnishings store. Both stores are in the Dubai Mall, next to the world's tallest tower, Burj Khalifa.

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.

The world's tallest building officially opened this month in the United Arab Emirates. At 2,717 feet - more than a half-mile - the Burj Khalifa towers over Dubai come closer than any other man-made structure to truly scraping the sky.

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.

Dubai Shopping Festival, the annual shopping extravaganza that attracts millions from across the globe has kicked off here, as the UAE attempts to boost its indifferent retail sector. A woman examines a gift at the souvenir shop of Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building in Dubai.

Dubai's officials said that a dazzling display of fireworks at the inauguration of World's tallest tower-Burj Khalifa was aimed to give message of Dubai emerging from the worst financial crisis and the emirate has started its new journey for scaling new heights of growth.