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Dubai to get tower shaped like Gulf Arab man |
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1/11/2007 9:00:25 AM |
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The bustling Gulf emirate of Dubai, home to several extravagant projects, plans to build a tower in the form of a Gulf Arab man wearing the region’s traditional garb, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
“Burj al-Arabi”, or Arab’s Tower, will be the world’s “biggest costume made of concrete and glass”, Al-Emarat Al-Yom said, citing developers.
The 35-storey structure, which will be 140 meters (459 feet) tall, will take the shape of a man in a white dishdasha or thob, worn by men in the conservative Muslim region, and sporting the customary headdress.
Slated for completion in 2009 at a cost of half a billion dirhams ($136 million), the tower will host offices, restaurants and shops, the daily said.
It will be built near a vast airport currently under construction in the Jebel Ali area on the outskirts of the city.
Dubai, a member of the seven-strong United Arab Emirates, has in the space of a few years turned into a regional business and tourism hub where dozens of grandiose projects are under way.
These include “Burj Dubai” or Dubai Tower, which at more than 700 meters (2,296 feet) high is slated to be the world’s tallest skyscraper when it is completed at the end of 2008.
Even a turning tower is in the works. Time Residences will be “a building that moves with the power of the sun” to become “the only rotating residential structure on the planet,” the developers of the 30-storey tower said in November. |
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