Saturday, 30 June 2012

THE INCREDIBLE ISLANDS

PALM ISLANDS, DUBAI

Dubai, one of the worlds richest place created the biggest man made islands popularly known as palm islands. 

5 million tourist visited Dubai every year, which sheikh wanted to triple to 15 million.They found the solution in the form of palm tree shaped islands, construction started in 2001. 




Island can be built from concrete, but to blend with the surroundings it was to be made from sand and gravels. 94 million cubic meters of sand was required for construction. To protect from sea, break water  was built of 5.5 million cubic meters of rock. Together they constitute to be able to build 2.5m high wall encircled the entire world.





 The island was to host 22 luxurious hotels. Now 4500 houses were to be built along with 22 hotels, shopping malls, resorts and road network. The island was to house 60,000 people at first but the people loved the idea so much that the capacity was doubled and all houses sold out in just 3 days. The whole project was completed in 2006










Palm tree island view from the space
                                                             image of palm jebel ali.


                                                          image of palm Jemuirah.







source: internet

No comments:

Post a Comment