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Why Dubai’s artificial islands failed
Among Dubai’s most audacious projects are its artificial islands, including the iconic Palm Jumeirah and the World Archipelago. These artificial landscapes were designed to redefine luxury ...
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I stayed at a hotel on Dubai's massive artificial island shaped like a palm tree and it's more surreal than any photos can show
Perhaps no other project in the budding city more epitomizes this quest for absurd grandeur than the Palm Islands, an archipelago of artificial islands that extend off the Dubai coastline like the ...
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How Dubai's reclaimed islands are becoming luxury havens
The success and appreciation witnessed in the Palm ... archipelago of 260 islands 4km off Jumeirah Beach, required 386 million tonnes of rock to construct. Its development began in 2003 as one of ...