Dubai is the country famous for its numerous maniacal building projects. It houses the largest artificial island, as well as the tallest tower in the world. Dubai utilizes 15-25% of all the cranes in the world. It has the only ‘7 star’ and the most luxurious hotel in the world. It has the largest waterfront, the largest shopping mall, the largest indoor skiing facility in the world! Everything about this country derives from unbelievable grandeur that makes people wonder how far this madness can go on.

Here are several photographs of a street in Dubai dating from 1990 till 2008.



1990



2003



2008



I found it quite fascinating to find out that Dubai’s oil reserves are estimated to last till 2016-2020.

As a result, in the last 10 years Dubai’s leader, crown prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, introduced the country to the world, following the most ambitious plan of total reformation. His ideas of promoting Dubai as a country of trade and tourism are developing side by side with superior construction projects. Already now the country gets only 6% of its money from oil, as its moneymakers are industry-specific free zones throughout the city. Architecture became a marketing tool for Dubai. It is used to support one of the largest advertisement campaigns in the world: wonders of Dubai are discussed on the first pages of magazines and newspapers, they become "hot" subjects for blogs and tv shows.