Pines que coinciden con place:Dubai

Emaar Properties officially opened the 828-meter Burj Khalifa in Dubai, timed to the fifth anniversary of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's accession to power. The tower took the world's-tallest-building title from Taipei 101 by a record margin.

Dubai Opera, a 2,000-seat performing arts venue shaped like a dhow, opened in the city's Opera District with a Plácido Domingo gala.

Dubai's One Za'abeel opened to the public, its twin towers joined by The Link, a 230-metre skybridge that went on to set the Guinness World Record for longest cantilevered building.

Emaar restarted work on the long-stalled Dubai Creek Tower after redesigning it to stand shorter than the Burj Khalifa.

The world's largest observation wheel, Ain Dubai, finally reopened to the public more than three years after its October 2021 debut, following a shutdown for unspecified 'enhancement works' that dragged on far past its original timeline.

A 377-metre, 1,004-room supertall hotel on Dubai Marina's waterfront opened as the world's tallest hotel, its curved concrete form engineered to shed wind loads on a coastal site.

The revived Palm Jebel Ali masterplan covers 1,700 villas and 6,000 apartments for about 35,000 families across seven fronds, up to twice the size of Palm Jumeirah. Villa construction is running on all 12 residential fronds, with the island as a whole targeted for 2028.

Dubai developer Muraba and Pritzker Prize-winner RCR Arquitectes are building Muraba Veil, a 380m tower just 22.5m wide wrapped in a porous steel mesh, among the world's skinniest skyscrapers.

Dubai developer Nakheel had local authorities approve a new master plan for Palm Jebel Ali, reviving the shelved artificial island as a bigger sequel to Palm Jumeirah with the first villas due from 2027 and the project targeted for completion at the end of 2028.

The 30 km Blue Line adds 14 stations across Dubai Silicon Oasis, Academic City, International City, Dubai Creek Harbour, Mirdif and Al Warqa, with 15.5 km of underground track and 14.5 km elevated. The RTA awarded the construction contract to a consortium of MAPA, LIMAK and CRRC in December 2024 and expects 28 trains to carry 200,000 riders a day by 2030, rising to 320,000 by 2040.

Azizi Developments is building the 725m Burj Azizi on Dubai's Sheikh Zayed Road, a tower meant to become the world's second-tallest building, though work was still on the raft foundation and basement car park in mid-2026.

Dubai's $35 billion replacement hub, designed to eventually handle 260 million passengers a year. Estimated date.

The first phase of Dubai's US$35BN Al Maktoum International Airport expansion, ultimately sized to handle more than 260 million passengers a year and become the world's largest airport.

Dubái ha aprobado una red de túneles profundos de alcantarillado de 22.000 millones de dólares, a hasta 90 m bajo tierra, para sustituir un sistema fragmentado de más de 150 estaciones de bombeo que en ocasiones ha desbordado a las calles de la ciudad.