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Dubai’s prominent developer, Emaar Properties said on Monday that it plans to build the largest fountain in the world as the centerpiece of its Downtown Burj Dubai project.
What’s in store when the project is completed next year:
The $218 million project is said to be 25% larger than the iconic fountains at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Like the fountains of Bellagio, Emaar’s fountains will include an integral light and sound show and is expected to become one of the city’s major tourist attractions, drawing over 10 million visitors per year. Over lights and color projectors will create a vibrant visual spectrum of over 1,000 different water expressions accompanied by selected music.
The fountains will shoot 22,000 gallons of water in the air at any given moment and feature over 6,600 lights and 50 color projectors.
At over 900 feet (275 meters) in length, it is equivalent to the size of over two football fields. The fountain is also capable of shooting water 150 feet into the air.
Simply beautiful and astounding!
One thing to REALLY get excited about? Emaar is offering AED100,000 (US$27,247) cash prize for naming the world-class water, light and sound spectacle! The competition will be open to all UAE residents only (as of this writing) so if you have a kicking-smart-out of this world-perky name for this, whisper it to me…make sure no one is around when you do! Promise, we’ll split the loot if I win.
DEAL? :twisted:
I am no longer accepting name suggestions by email due to spam and some people who took this very seriously, it’s tad scary.
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What will the good people in Dubai think of next?
They keep doing it and doing it big.
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Wow. That’s going to be awesome. That’s huge
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Is there anything that is not the biggest, tallest in Dubai?
What a great place to be!
I hope you will win. Sorry that I don’t have any name to suggest. My idea is the size of a pea.
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Dubai’s out to beat Singapore’s Suntec fountain!
Maybe they’ll do the observation wheel next.
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wait i’ll email you hehehe
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Looks amazing.
I wish I had a great idea for a name… I’ll try to come up with something.
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That looks beautiful. We don’t have anything that interesting here is Cali. Thanks for sharing.
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That is amazing! The watershow at Bellagio is my absolute favorite thing about Vegas. Well, second to shopping. hee hee
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dubai is really a must-visit place!
i’ve recently watched from national geographic how burj al arab was built and saw a glimpse of the inside — definitely no less than a palace.
wow! ang laki ng prize, isip din ako bulong ko sayo hehehe…
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Dubai truly is becoming one of the world’s amazing places to see. One day I would love to visit
Everything they’re building is world-class… They’re thinking big and it’s working! Real estate there must be sky-high!
They should name it the Arabia Bidet.
oil money is the shit!
now thats funny!
Until very recently this city barely existed. Benjamin Koshkin
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Wow dubai now is 1 of the tourist destinations in the world. They have world class destinations. A haven for tourist.
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All built on the backs of exploited migrants.
Workers, you mean. There are no migrants here. I am not condoning it but yeah, so was the Great Pyramids of Egypt!
Acquaintance of mine teaches in UAE several months a year. She says the construction workers come from all over the world for the excellent pay. She says the skilled tradesmen make many times what they would in their home nations, and the general laborers are paid well enough to keep them coming, and to almost literally fight for the best jobs. Exploited, my butt. If I didn’t have kids, I’d go, the offer has been extended more than once.
can we give suggestions for the fountains name?if yes,how?
Those renderings look incredible. Dubai seems like a spectacle that cannot be rivaled by the west in it’s grandeur.
It is beatiful, it is my dream to go there!
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Wow, that would be so awesome if they are able to pull it off.
Wonderfull pictures. It will be first class destination.
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Wild! Dubai continues its amazing growth and unique developments. Definately on my list of places to visit.
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That would be so cool if they could do that
That looks awesome can wait to see it, when do they plan to start building it?
Wow, Dubai is taking over in civil engineering. The fountain is huge.
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Beautiful. Dubai is starting to scare me, with all of these architectural records they’re breaking. As a Torontonian I don’t like the fact that our CN tower isn’t the largest free standing build any more.
Dubai is the ultimate destination. Its amazing. I recommend it to every traveler.
That is amazing!
That’s going to be awesome.
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It looks like they’re really trying to hedge their bets for when people figure out cheap, renewable energy and don’t need their oil anymore.
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Great pictures, man Dubai is going to have the worlds largest, tallest everything in the world!!!! Yeah, and it’s on my list for visiting.
wow what a pictures that was!
Dubai is one of the richest country in the world and many of people will going Dubai for making money
if this true then many of employment will be low down
currently world face the problem of financial crises i don’t think so it will be started in those days
i wud like to give the name of the biggest fountain as ”ARABIAN IMPULSE”..
Wow. Now then I know what commentluv does. lol. I’ve been hearing about it but do not fully understand what is so good about it.
Very nice information. Thanks for this. By the way, did you create this layout yourself?
Now then I know what commentluv does
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Cool project !
anyway I doubt it’ll be fantastic as in these renders…
Let’s hope I’m wrong!
They are so full of cash lol..
They can make a fake volcano wit the lava in it if they want..
Whole Dubai looks great but natural things will always be my first choice.
They building pyramids again to become immortal one more time and they rely again on slaves and the fortune to have oil on their lands. But rest assured this all will again become leveled by sand, so future generations will dig out Gucci Rolex and Mercedes Benz treasures.
wow… that’s going to be an amazing accomplishment. Dubai is going to be the next worlds destination or place to be with the world’s tallest building.
Nowadays every new achievement is possible in Dubai. Its really amazing. Dubai is going to become a new in world in its own.
Dubai surprisingly rising on its own, it would be great if this could be realized.
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