A new city district at Al Raha will be built at a staggering cost of USD 15 billion to serve as the new gateway to Abu Dhabi city.

The new city district will be built on 6.8 million square metres along the Abu Dhabi to Dubai highway on reclaimed land at Al Raha beach.

The total built-up area will be 12 million square metres ranging from 60-storey towers to low-rise developments at the water's edge to accommodate a resident population of 120,000.

The new city district will be integrated with Khalifa Town 'A' and the recently completed Al Raha Beach Hotel by a road and related transport links.

The underlying theme of the development will be to enhance Abu Dhabi's natural wealth of water and beach frontage. "Maximising the water frontage at Al Raha beach, the new city will provide a lifestyle destination embracing residential, commercial, cultural, entertainment and public amenities," he said.

Water taxi services will be provided to serve all parts of Abu Dhabi island as well as the outlying islands such as Saadiyat and the Abu Dhabi International Airport, thus providing a new means of urban transport for the city while also boosting tourism in the capital.


WEBSITE: www.alrahabeach.ae


http://www.uaehits.com/pics1/alraha_beach.jpg

Al Raha Beach 3D Clip (http://www.uaehits.com/movies/al_raha_beach.wmv) 19 MB

Khor Al Raha 3D Clip (http://www.uaehits.com/movies/khor_al_raha.wmv) 11 MB

nice man... AD try to use their islands which are only sand but hopefully in futrue will be city in its own..
Go AD, Go Dubai and Go UAE for better future

The entire development (taken from the website)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e357/sahmad1/1fde2b11.jpg

Looks great, thanks for sharing!:)

wow, it's nice too see a waterfront that doesn't have a highway running right beside it...does anyone know why the beaches don't folllow the whole development?

OH! Heaven on earth.

why didnt this surprise me at all :)

fantastic :eek2:

excellent project. a bit like the tropical star wars.

cool :okay:

It's just amazing.... the gulf is just unstoppable these days...

neat.. i'll go and visit the place once it's done :D

http://www.uaehits.com/pics1/alraha_01.jpg

that's so sweet :drool:

if it only looks half as good in reality, as in the rendering, it will be awesome.

any construction pics?

Construction is to beging very soon... and unfortunately we don't have too many forumers from Abu Dhabi

Let's wait for the succession of events :)