World’s largest fountain to be built in Dubai
Posted in beautiful Dubai and tagged with bellagio, burj dubai, downtown dubai, dubai, fountain on 06/24/2008 04:43 pm by GraceDubai’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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June 24th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
What will the good people in Dubai think of next?
They keep doing it and doing it big.
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June 24th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Wow. That’s going to be awesome. That’s huge
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June 24th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
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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June 24th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Dubai’s out to beat Singapore’s Suntec fountain!
Maybe they’ll do the observation wheel next.
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June 24th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
wait i’ll email you hehehe
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June 24th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Looks amazing.
I wish I had a great idea for a name… I’ll try to come up with something.
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June 24th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
That looks beautiful. We don’t have anything that interesting here is Cali. Thanks for sharing.
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June 25th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
That is amazing! The watershow at Bellagio is my absolute favorite thing about Vegas. Well, second to shopping. hee hee
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June 25th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
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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June 25th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
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!
June 26th, 2008 at 10:50 am
They should name it the Arabia Bidet.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:39 am
oil money is the shit!
June 28th, 2008 at 11:34 am
now thats funny!
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:41 am
Until very recently this city barely existed. Benjamin Koshkin
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July 3rd, 2008 at 9:35 am
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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July 10th, 2008 at 8:59 am
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!
July 15th, 2008 at 6:25 am
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.
July 19th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
can we give suggestions for the fountains name?if yes,how?
November 4th, 2008 at 1:56 am
Those renderings look incredible. Dubai seems like a spectacle that cannot be rivaled by the west in it’s grandeur.
November 6th, 2008 at 5:03 am
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November 6th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Nice post,
also great pictures you got there.
November 8th, 2008 at 11:07 am
It is beatiful, it is my dream to go there!
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November 12th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Wow, that would be so awesome if they are able to pull it off.
December 18th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Wonderfull pictures. It will be first class destination.
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December 18th, 2008 at 4:17 am
Wild! Dubai continues its amazing growth and unique developments. Definately on my list of places to visit.
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December 18th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
That would be so cool if they could do that
December 25th, 2008 at 2:35 am
That looks awesome can wait to see it, when do they plan to start building it?
December 28th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Wow, Dubai is taking over in civil engineering. The fountain is huge.
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December 29th, 2008 at 4:06 am
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.
December 30th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Dubai is the ultimate destination. Its amazing. I recommend it to every traveler.
January 5th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
That is amazing!
January 9th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
That’s going to be awesome.
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January 27th, 2009 at 12:32 am
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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February 5th, 2009 at 12:51 am
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.
March 1st, 2009 at 8:34 pm
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
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:13 pm
i wud like to give the name of the biggest fountain as ”ARABIAN IMPULSE”..
March 10th, 2009 at 9:06 am
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.
March 12th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Very nice information. Thanks for this. By the way, did you create this layout yourself?
March 27th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Now then I know what commentluv does
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June 10th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Cool project !
anyway I doubt it’ll be fantastic as in these renders…
Let’s hope I’m wrong!