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  • often called the city of the Future, Dubai is a mind blowing place with loads of world records, the fastest police cars and service.

  • The biggest picture frame, the largest vertical maze, the tallest chocolate sculpture.

  • It's architecture won't leave you cold as well.

  • The newest mega projects Heart Something Else.

  • Mall of the World.

  • It's going to be the largest shopping mall on the planet.

  • Ah, part of a fully air conditioned and temperature controlled city.

  • The project is going to cost a mind blowing $6.8 billion enough money to buy a vacation into space for 136 people.

  • Or get yourself three.

  • Buckingham Palace is the giant.

  • Enormous Construction is going to cover an area the size of 630 soccer fields and feature countless stores.

  • Movie theaters, 100 hotels with more than 20,000 hotel rooms and a wellness district Mall of the world is also going to house the world's largest indoor theme park, covered with a dome that can open in the winter when it's not so hot outside the Dubai Frink, this magnificent project opened in January 2018.

  • The towering gold frame holds the record for being the largest in the world.

  • And no wonder.

  • The Dubai frame, created of reinforced concrete, steel, aluminum and glass is half as tall as the Eiffel Tower.

  • When you get to the top of the observatory, you can see new Dubai's record breaking skyline on one side and a panoramic view of all Dubai on the other.

  • The iconic landmark cost almost $63 million to build as more than 50 statues of liberty if they were created today, Aim Dubai, also known as the Dubai I.

  • When the Dubai Eye is open, it's going to be the largest and highest Ferris wheel in the world.

  • From the height twice as tall as Big Ben, you're going to have a 360 degree view of both the city and the coastline.

  • The wheel is also impressively heavy.

  • Together with its spindle hub and other parts.

  • Ain't Dubai will wait almost 10,000 tons.

  • That's about 85 blue whales, the largest animals on earth.

  • When the constructors were moving the wheel rim sections, they had to use Crane's capable of lifting 3000 times or 500 African elephants.

  • The Rasta Mani maze tower, an example of Dubai's outrageous architecture.

  • This building is covered with the largest vertical maze on the planet, the 56 storey skyscrapers to soccer pitches in height and has both office and residential floors to highlight the maze, thousands of L E D lights illuminated at night.

  • The dynamic Tower, the rotating 80 story skyscraper featuring AH hotel offices and apartments, was supposed to open in 2020.

  • But the $1.2 billion construction hasn't been started yet.

  • When completed, the tower is going to be almost three and 1/2 times as tall as the Great Pyramid of Giza.

  • Each floor can move independently, and building will always have a different shape.

  • The dynamic tower may be the world's first premade skyscraper.

  • Special modules will be built in factories and shipped to the construction side, where the tower will be assembled like a huge Lego puzzle.

  • It'll take 30% less time to build than any other skyscraper of the same sides.

  • Dubai Creek Tower.

  • When finished, the mind boggling skyscraper will be the tallest building in the U.

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  • A.

  • And probably in the whole world, it'll be at least one Statue of Liberty taller than the current record holder Burj Khalifa.

  • The skyscraper will look amazing both during the day and at night, thanks to its moving illumination.

  • At the top of the tower, there will be 10 observation decks, some of them with hanging gardens.

  • This wonder of a skyscraper is, unsurprisingly, going to cost a fortune around $1 billion.

  • Museum of the Future.

  • If, while driving along the largest highway in Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road, you suddenly spot a giant eye following your every move, don't panic.

  • It's not the eye of sorrow.

  • Just Dubai's Museum of the Future.

  • Even though the museum hasn't opened yet it's designed, has already won several awards.

  • The building's facade is unit ties, combining the structure, windows, insulation and waterproofing into one system, which has never been done before.

  • The museum is said to cost $136 million enough to build four Eiffel Towers.

  • When visiting three of the seven museums floors, you'll have an opportunity to take part in exhibitions rather than just see them underwater high speed rail.

  • One day in the near future, you might board an altar fast train and travel from the emirate of Fujairah in the U.

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  • A to the city of Mumbai in India by floating underwater rail.

  • The entire trip will take just two hours.

  • The length of the network will be about 1200 miles.

  • And besides passengers, the train will also transport different goods.

  • Expo 2020 Dubai.

  • The mega projects cost is rumored to be around $9 billion.

  • Ah, huge sum.

  • That would be enough to construct another 10 great pyramids of Giza.

  • The Expo will occupy the area larger than Central Park in New York and show the world some of the most futuristic constructions people have ever built.

  • After all, the Expos main theme is connecting minds connecting the future.

  • It's going to be 1/2 a year long event, which shows food stands with different cuisines and numerous attractions.

  • Aladdin City, inspired by the stories about Aladdin engineers and designers, came up with the idea of Aladdin City.

  • It's going to be a huge complex of three link towers shaped like genie lamps.

  • The structure will stretch for the distance as great as 55 lined up London buses and house both hotels and offices.

  • Several air conditioned bridges will connect the towers.

  • Oh, it'll come in handy in the summer, when the heat can reach 113 degrees Fahrenheit.

  • The Royal Atlantis resort and residences, this huge complex.

  • Everything here is huge or the biggest or the tallest, isn't it?

  • Are you seeing a pattern here?

  • Just jacking anyway?

  • It might see its first visitors and residents Already in 2020 the 43 story construction is going to be one of the most luxurious hotels in Dubai, with its 692 hotel rooms, 102 suites and 231 apartments.

  • The apartments will come in different styles, most of them with their own private pools and gardens, 90 swimming pools, 13 restaurants with celebrity chefs, a wellness center twice as big as a hockey rink, by the way.

  • And if you're still not impressed, how about a huge aquarium with more than 2000 jellyfish inside?

  • Yeah, Blue Waters Island.

  • It's an artificial island near Dubai Marina, home to the Dubai I and tons of other entertainments.

  • One of the most popular Dubai destinations, the Blue Waters Island attracts more than three million visitors every year.

  • In the nearest future, the island's going to feature the group Rapid Transit Service, 25 driverless buses carrying more than 2000 passengers per hour from the island to the Dubai Metro Red Line and back.

  • The trip will take just five minutes and finally we say goodbye to Dubai.

  • You were expecting that one now, aren't you?

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  • And remember, Stay on the bright side of life, Yeah.

often called the city of the Future, Dubai is a mind blowing place with loads of world records, the fastest police cars and service.

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