DUBAI doesn’t do discreet. The emirate welcomed in the new year with a huge fireworks display that engulfed the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, in time to a live performance by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. In a video that runs in the Burj Khalifa’s visitors’ centre, an executive at Emaar, the developer behind the skyscraper, explains why it had to go that high: “You have to do something impossible, otherwise you’ll be like any other company, or person. We have to grow higher and higher—grow like Dubai.”
The emirate’s latest wheeze is to create a city within the city, a development bigger than anything that has gone before. Mohammed bin Rashid (MBR) City will feature more than 100 hotels, the Middle East’s largest entertainment centre, a park bigger than London’s Hyde Park and the world’s biggest shopping mall, appropriately named “Mall of the World”.
Dubai’s renaissance: Edifice complex | The Economist
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