Welcome to Dubai

Imagine a city where the tallest building on Earth pierces the clouds at 829.8 meters, where an island shaped like a giant palm tree was built entirely from sand, and where indoor ski slopes exist in the middle of a scorching desert. Welcome to Dubai.

It is hard to believe that in the early 1700s, Dubai was a quiet fishing village of roughly 1,200 people. Today, it is a gleaming metropolis of over 3.5 million residents and one of the most visited cities in the world. Dubai's transformation over the past 50 years is one of the most remarkable stories of urban development in human history.

From the Burj Khalifa's design inspired by a desert flower to the Palm Jumeirah built with 3 billion cubic feet of dredged sand, Dubai is a city that constantly pushes the boundaries of what is architecturally and engineeringly possible. Let's explore this city of the future!