The Vertical City · event 1 of 9

1999

The Burj Al Arab opens. A sail-shaped hotel on an artificial island, designed explicitly to give Dubai a silhouette. It works.

The The Vertical City era

  1. 1999
  2. 2002
  3. 2006
  4. 2009
  5. 2010
  6. 2020
  7. January 2022
  8. 2022
  9. 2023

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