Dubai Waterfront Project
Dubai Waterfront is the name of a huge construction project in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. It is 30-38 miles along the coast and border to Abu Dhabi, under the leadership of the Nakheel project will be realized and was presented by Sheikh Muhammad. The master plan for the very heart of the compact city, of this 1.7 square kilometers Waterfront City, comes from the Dutchman Rem Koolhaas from Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) .
In its completion in the 2030er years Dubai Waterfront will be the longest shoreline of people created the earth. The project is an accumulation of many building full of canals, the inner surfaces of water and six medium-sized into the sea beyond islands. In addition to luxury hotels, residential buildings and villas local shopping centers, parks and marine transport facilities accommodate. The new District Dubai Waterfront will be according to the latest figures (2008) a population from 1.2 to 1.5 million people, and relatively self-sufficient in 10 districts. The place would have a total area of 440 square kilometers bigger than city of Cologne (405.15 km ²) and nearly half as big as Berlin (about 890 km ²). The connection to Dubai City will be finished at the end of 2009 when the Dubai Metro will be produced, it is also planned for a quick connection to the building located about 25 km from Dubai Airport World Central International.
As the center of this densely built deliberately large municipality, the almost square-cut center with some very high skyscrapers can be created. The central island is artificial and a high density development with approximately 7 million square meters of gross floor get enough space for about 310,000 jobs. You will find there lots of properties for sale. Here is the southern tip (downtown) Manhattan emulated, so in this “modern day metropolis” only 92,000 people live. The draft provides for a screening of the island in just a 5×5 square blocks, which connect to the mainland by four bridges will be produced. The aim of the whole water construction projects in Dubai including the Arabian Canal is the only 80-km long natural coastline of the Emirates Dubai is much to extend it to as many of the popular and well-selling sites to get water. It is calculated in Dubai with a total of over 1000 km of new artificial coastline and about 400 km further emerging shore line on the Arabian Canal.
Status of construction work in autumn 2008 - the east upstream Palm Jebel Ali is about to start the construction work, approximately 2 x 10 km wide coastal strip from the port of Jebel Ali south-west is developed. This almost 6 km long inland canal, is similar to the Dubai Marina excavated. He should once the planned districts “Canal District” and “Veneto” to varied perspectives, and increased recreational value breakthrough. For the construction of six artificial islands upstream has begun with the preparations. From this moment all real estates can be sold.
