Link to Part 1 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=8423972#post8423972)

http://admin.realcomm.com/filecabinet/Image/000000/Dubai-Palm%20Island.jpg

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I think the pictures are from early April.. Hopefully they have made good progress since then.

I downloaded some of the pictures in original size and cropped a few:-

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From pbase

From http://www.pbase.com/zedz/dubai
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mashallah .. nice photos thanx Krazy ^_^

Latest satellite picture

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should not be too old :)

simply amazing! anyone knows what kind of people might be interested in buying those houses?

The Beckhams along with the rest of the English football team

amazing project, right now all the villas look like some industrial facilities but I know it will be better once that shiney black street is layed out and the palms are places and all the other good....


Does anyone know what this hole is for?

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It'll look better once they start the landscaping

some crazy pictures!!!

It'll look better once they start the landscaping

Do you know if they will fix the outline of the palm island, because now the sand or whatever it is, its just going into the water and look out of order will they add like nice walls around the palm to make a nice outline?

Do you know if they will fix the outline of the palm island, because now the sand or whatever it is, its just going into the water and look out of order will they add like nice walls around the palm to make a nice outline?

I don't think so, they want to give the residents a piece of private beach.

That's a lot of McMansions, but at least the location is perhaps the most uniquer in the world. Overall, I love the project.

I don't think so, they want to give the residents a piece of private beach.

o ok, well I think they should of outlined it with something nice and solid to give it a more professional look....thanks for answering.

National Geographic said that the ocean currents are being redirected by the Palm. This is causing a deformity in the line of the beach on the mainland. Is there any solution to this problem besides regular refilling of sand on mainland beaches?

I saw this shot and I couldn't stop myself from thinking that it looks like a....

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^^ soooo smart

amazing..

National Geographic said that the ocean currents are being redirected by the Palm. This is causing a deformity in the line of the beach on the mainland. Is there any solution to this problem besides regular refilling of sand on mainland beaches?

I saw this shot and I couldn't stop myself from thinking that it looks like a....

http://k41.pbase.com/v3/25/596325/1/49291506.7.jpg

vivid imagination

^^ no doubt.


there will be no concrete outline since every villa has its private beach (which is not yet in place, it will come with the 55m $ landscape project).

I do think the whole thing is quite amazing that they have managed to do it...bit I think it looks ugly.

I do think the whole thing is quite amazing that they have managed to do it...bit I think it looks ugly.

At this moment it looks ugly, like I said it looks like a industrial zone, but that 55$ million landscaping project will fix things up for sure. :runaway:

An absolute feat of engineering, but far too many large homes too close to each other, for the kinda money you'd be expecting to pay you should have at least a homes width of space between you and your neighbour!

Amazing project.
However, I am a bit concerned that the water in this little shallow bays between the palm fronds will start to get muddy and full of algae. Especially in this hot climate. Same for all the mainland beaches directly behind the palm.

^^ The mainland beaches right beneath the Palm have lost the clearlness becouse of the strong residious from the construtction and loose sand particles from the reclamation. Also more sea creatures are approaching the shore.

Of course beach erosion, due to shifting sea currents is the biggest problem that Dubai beaches are facing becouse of The Palm.

As for the aereas between the funds, if it hasn't got muddy and full of alges in the 2 years since they were compleated, I doubt it will start now. ;)

I hope they have taken the sea rises into account due to the ices caps melting. The properties dont seem to be high enough.

How much does one of these houses cost?

Who would have thunk that this would have been so popular. Beat me with a stick!

I notice a lack of swimming pools. Is that because everyone has their own beach or do people generally have pools inside their homes where it's cooler.

I hope they have taken the sea rises into account due to the ices caps melting. The properties dont seem to be high enough.


If the ice caps do melt we'll just build a huge hole and canal and channel the excess water to the Sahara desert. It's amazing what technology can do. :cheers:

oh my god those are really nice pictures, dubia is gettin better than new york in skyline.

in my opinion there is too less space between the villas.And there are too many villas on a palm leaf.

At this moment it looks ugly, like I said it looks like a industrial zone, but that 55$ million landscaping project will fix things up for sure. :runaway:


Only $55 million to landscape the entire development? That seems like a bargain to me.

wowwwww !!! amazing !!!

can anyone tell me how was the construction process of this long-shaped isles. What kind of technique or technology did they use to build isles over the sea ???? I wonder how they did it. It is so huge !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only $55 million to landscape the entire development? That seems like a bargain to me.

this is only Nakheel's landscaping, it does not include private developers projects etc.


I notice a lack of swimming pools. Is that because everyone has their own beach or do people generally have pools inside their homes where it's cooler.

almost every signature villa has its own pool, just not yet visible.

from flickr

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Great photos from http://dubai.mconet.biz , they look quite recent...

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^ the last one is Wo0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0oW

are all those 10 story apartments all the same

the apartment buildings look really same.Maybe they will look different when the faccades are finished. :)

Just find this thread - nice and amazing ! I will pay great attention in the days ahead ......

yes i think that it needs some trees and then it should look beautiful

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man from they get these cool ideas ...awesome..love it :eek2:

I AM SPEECHLESS!!!!!!!!!!!

It just looks... so fake!

It just looks... so fake!
Nah, it looks real enough to me. Or maybe it was all a scam designed to test a new uber-version of photoshop :D

It just looks... so fake!


what's so fake about it this time?... :cheers:

Very nice villas

wow

Pics of Palm Jumeriah at pbase (http://www.pbase.com/bmcmorrow/dxbpalms&page=all)

The link is to some pictures taken by Brian McMorrow. The Pictures to the bottom of the page were taken if Febuary ( i know its now 4 months ago but they are the most recent i have seen)

This is a picture of the Trump hotel that will be placed in the center of the trunk of Palm J

http://www.nakheel.ae/cm/media/news/Image/Trump_Hotel&Tower.jpg

New renders of the ...

... trunk:
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... Trump Hotel:
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Thanks Altin

... Trump Hotel:
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That's the coolest tower I've ever seen, I love it! :runaway:

I'm speechless, everytime i look at the project...:shocked: :shocked: :eek: :drool:

Very nice tower

there is one major flaw in this...rising see levels = flooding

^^ Isn't that a problem with other multi million inhabitants metropolis?

If I was you I'll be more concearned about the long-time overdue tsunami risking the life of hundreds of thousands and devastating the life of dozens of millions people on North America's West Coast.

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Hey nice pics asd63!!!

How did you get these? Did you take them?

More info pleeeeeeaaase!!!

Hey nice pics asd63!!!

How did you get these? Did you take them?

More info pleeeeeeaaase!!!

Yes, I did in a site visit

Yes, I did in a site visit

How was the feeling of space on the fronds? Did the apartments on the fronds feel too close together? From some of the aerial shots i've it looks quite cramped.

What about the main trunk? How is progress going on the buildings?

Has the tunnel been completed between the outer ring and top of the palm?

Sorry about all the question just rather interesting!! :)

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The inside looks really basic.

^^ yeh it cuz its not been furnished yet

great pics however! great to see pictures of inside villas! the first of set iv seen so far

is that a great rutunda villa?

The houses are too close... you can see your neighbour dressing :D :lol:

The houses are too close... you can see your neighbour dressing :D :lol:

That isnt too bad, is it? :D

Great pictures asb, looks like the villas are almost ready for move in!

^^ Isn't that a problem with other multi million inhabitants metropolis?

If I was you I'll be more concearned about the long-time overdue tsunami risking the life of hundreds of thousands and devastating the life of dozens of millions people on North America's West Coast.

Yah I'm aware of that. What im saying is that its easier to defend a city again rising seas because you can just build defences. How are they going to do that on these palms? The sea defences wouldnt need to be in deep water and so would cost substantially more that coastline defences.

Maybe it's because they didn't put any furniture&stuff into the houses?

Anyway, I'm speechless. Things like that can happen only in the mid east. :D


And european, next time DON't quote the whole post with images.

check www.thepalm.ae (relaunche) for more pics.

looks great.

I want one of those amazing villas :yes:

brilliant!!

check www.thepalm.ae (relaunche) for more pics.

looks great.

Some good pictures and good information.

So good to see some colour finally come to the fronds with the grass, and apartments being painted with the blue from the swimming pools.

Should make for plenty of :cheers:

Is there nobody at all yet living in these houses? When I stayed at the Burj in '04 it was still looking good

Photo from July '04
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^^^ Nobody living in the frond apartments yet.

They start moving in from November 2006

^^ Isn't that a problem with other multi million inhabitants metropolis?

If I was you I'll be more concearned about the long-time overdue tsunami risking the life of hundreds of thousands and devastating the life of dozens of millions people on North America's West Coast. The only other one in america that i can think of is miami. beverly hills cant flood and the rich people in new york live in sky scrapers but yeah the sea level is suppose to rise like 3 feet by 2050 if that happens every home along there will be done for.

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Whoa!! This is one of the most massive scale of property developments I ever seen.

$_$ i'll hit u , i thought it was true not models ^_^ .kkkkkkkkkkkk then i saw it clearly .. hehehe.. it is very very veryyyyyyyyyyyyyy fantasy and fantastic ^_*

great model..the EP is looking fantastic

I wonder how old that model of the main trunk of the palm is.
Only that it does not include the Trump Hotel right in the middle as pictured on page 2 or 3.

Model looks great though. I thought that as you look at the first picture of the models posted by Krazy the apartments are on the right and there is meant to be shops down the left.

i dont think the model is old

Wow the pics amazed me really.Its fantastic that we can see a construction like this going on in our life time.This will be really a new wonder of the world!!!!Its the best project after the Burj Dubai i have ever seen.

Dubai place statements!!! :eek2:

NICE models!!!

If I had a lot of money and I could choose any place to buy a house it would be the palm jumeirah for sure.

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this is town and traffic planning from the 70`s.

Sorry to say, but dubai loves figurative, iconic designs, but the design qualtity of the final design is often behind current standarts.

I dont want to sound presumptious, but whats the quality behind that?
whats the quality behind a 10 lane road between symmetric hotel boxes?

Look at Luchao harbour city near shanghai, it has a much mor subtile way of dealing with these difficult town planning aspects as how to implement traffic capacity in a human road space, or how to prevent these huge flyovers and so on.

The place where this higway junction is, is in the end one of the most interesting places on the palm, but with these roads its completely destroyed.

^^ Was thinking the exact same thing. The buildings just seem to be decorated commieblocks (although the ugliest ones on the left won't look like that). All the roads seem to be interchange type stuff so no slowing down of cars --> no chance for pedestrian activity.

the green lights for emerald palace remind me of poseidon... it is so alienating! bad taste for color choice of lights!

agree that the highways divide the whole development into non-human spaces... this design reminds me of american interchanges... it wasnt a very good idea but to think that dubai in this new age would emulate a formula that didnt prove to be very people-centric and is instead very much about the cars and vehicles...

think about dashing to the next hotel dodging the 10 lane road! :-O

^^ @ pflo777. Personnally i dont think the left hand side of the picture is correct. I think the model is an old model .

The left hand side as far as i know is shopping and not hotels.
Also in some of the other pictures of the model the Trump Hotel is missing from the center of the trunk.

I hope this isnt the finished model of how it will be 'cos its not that inspiring!

the waterway in the middle looks more like a huge drain / canal to me... where does it lead to? it doesnt lead to anywhere... the water wont flow as fluidly as in a river... it will definitely see floating trash stagnate at this canal's end junction ...

^^ In some other plans it connectes back to the sea.

if they would have putten the through traffic in a tunnel like enclosure and made the at grade roads therefore some 6 lanes smaller, you would have had a 6 lane road between the hotels-and this would be there only for local traffic, so it wouldnt be so highway like like now.

then move the hotels a bit more towards this road and you would have a beatyfull "champs-elysee" like boulevard.( or like "unter den linden" in berlin)
Replace the ridiuclous monorail with a tram that runs in the middle of the boulevard and viola--- you have a really nice arrangment.

Beach with beachfront-----Hotels and Shopping---Boulveard with cafes and tramway( tunnel for through traffic underenath----next Hotel row.....canel in the middel...and thten the whole thin mirrored
It would have been so easy.....

Edit: thats what i am talking about
http://www.kottke.org/plus/photos/200105europe/champs03.jpg

First of all, the models of the hotels on the left side are for ilustration pourposes only. Those Hotels are not yet designed and is up to the developer for the exact design.

The central canal, regardless what the model shows, it will CONNECT to the see on the right side, where it already takes a bend.

What in the hell is your problem with the intersection on the entrance of the island, how in the hell will the residents and visitors alike, access their vilas/apartments/hotels? :bash:

That is the only road access to a 2 miles long & 2 miles wide archipelagus. My worry and the other Dubai residents, is that it will not be enough and they should have already planned BIGGER with 2 more lanes in each directions.

well, I dont want to put a bad mood in this thread.
Therfore its not about bashing that stuff, but about thinking how it would have been possbile to make it even better.

As i am from europe, we europeans tend to dislike these huge infrastructureal no-go-zones, and I am pretty sure, if a big european firm like mvrdv, gmp....had made the masterplan it would have looked different at that location
Btw, can somebody tell me which firm made the masterplan?
Its the same with Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.......Put a 10 lane road at the place, were the most beatyfull location in the whole city....
But as I said, its a cultural thing, I have no problem with it, if you like it.

You're right. I guess burying 8 lines under the ground and leaving 4 (2x2) outside, for local connections, featuring bridges or traffic lights, would have been great, far more human, and as efficient.

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Looks like the Kurhouse near The Hague.

You're right. I guess burying 8 lines under the ground and leaving 4 (2x2) outside, for local connections, featuring bridges or traffic lights, would have been great, far more human, and as efficient.

Great idea but the cost would have been astronomical.

have a look at this:

http://rapidshare.de/files/22947195/NakheelCorpVidMay2006.avi.html

new nakheel video (may 2006) by alt tab.

shots:

The shoreline buildings have a traditional Arabian design, they will look better up close...

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Got the Nakheel package from DHL. It was a 3 min Nakheel corporate video with some footage of the Palm from this May.

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I will post the video on rapidshare later..

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well, I dont want to put a bad mood in this thread.
Therfore its not about bashing that stuff, but about thinking how it would have been possbile to make it even better.

As i am from europe, we europeans tend to dislike these huge infrastructureal no-go-zones, and I am pretty sure, if a big european firm like mvrdv, gmp....had made the masterplan it would have looked different at that location
Btw, can somebody tell me which firm made the masterplan?
Its the same with Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.......Put a 10 lane road at the place, were the most beatyfull location in the whole city....
But as I said, its a cultural thing, I have no problem with it, if you like it.

I'm European myself, but what you and the other don't get (due to lack of knowledge on the project) is that the intersection is the ONLY access point to the island. It has nothing to do with "culture" and a European firm would have done just the same.

Don't bring any Champs Elysee into discussion. You can access that boulevard from dosens of roads in all the directions, while this is IT, there is no other.

Access to European cities from Highways is done with huge intersections too.

Wow - really impressive!

It's quiteimpressing, although it's very crazy :eek2: It's not aesthetical seen from the space, it looks like a palm made by some 5 year old child.

That Emerald Palace model looks so real, I though they were real buildings and not models. They even put headlights and taillights on the miniature cars, I am very impressed! I love staring at models, and this is one of the most impressive !

They have added so many buildings at the trunk, now it looks like a city within a city !

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This has got to be the best render of how the island will look. Its got the Trump Hotel in the middle so this must be quite recent.

EXCELLENT!!! :eek2: :cheers:

The emerald palace hotel looks great, hope they don't go with that green lighting though, it needs something natural looking light for nighttime.

any other link for the video other than rapidshare? i can seem to access it :(

First of all, the models of the hotels on the left side are for ilustration pourposes only. Those Hotels are not yet designed and is up to the developer for the exact design.

The central canal, regardless what the model shows, it will CONNECT to the see on the right side, where it already takes a bend.

What in the hell is your problem with the intersection on the entrance of the island, how in the hell will the residents and visitors alike, access their vilas/apartments/hotels? :bash:

That is the only road access to a 2 miles long & 2 miles wide archipelagus. My worry and the other Dubai residents, is that it will not be enough and they should have already planned BIGGER with 2 more lanes in each directions.

Exactly. 10k-15k people per island and probably that amount again of people wanting to visit it just to look around each day (obviously some time after it's build...i dare say that they'll be a rush of people wanted it visit soon after completion) you need that much roadway. It may look unattractive but it's cost effective and it gets the job done. Problem will come when they need to expand it...if they ever build anything in place of the villas...because there's no where to put any more road apart from going skywards which would look worse.

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From Gowealthy website

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Wow what a fantastic picture.

Will look even better when the greenery starts going onto the island.

I love this photo. Don't really know why each house has a pool, then they have their own beach. Probably more privacy, and fresh water.

My villa is almost done there!!! :D

I love this photo. Don't really know why each house has a pool, then they have their own beach. Probably more privacy, and fresh water.


That's so you can have a pool party. :)

I want the one with the golden globes on the top :P.

Also there doesn't seem to much in the way of beach for each villa...their almost sitting on the water. It might just be that view though.

http://www.baidas.net/public/images/Palm001.jpg

http://www.baidas.net/public/images/Palm002.jpg



Looks like plenty of beach to me

watch the nakheel corporate video posted on page 4, there is easily enough beach area...

posted earlier in UAE forum

Far too many houses!

great !!! that place looks inmense and with very nice houses !

Far too many houses!

I think they had no choice to cram in as many houses as possible to make it cost effective.

also, the main point is the houses are quite close together, but have a massive open space in front, where the beach is.

watch the latest nakheel coporate video to get an idea of this.

What is the boat size limit in there? It looks vey small running for big ones creating big waves.

Boat police for people speeding betwen fronds?

I think they had no choice to cram in as many houses as possible to make it cost effective.

Do they even care?

Wow what a fantastic picture.

Will look even better when the greenery starts going onto the island.


I agree. Some trees and green grass where they can put it will make the place look even more amazing.

What is the boat size limit in there? It looks vey small running for big ones creating big waves.

Boat police for people speeding betwen fronds?

believe me this thing is so massive it almost every boat would be able to ship there.

did u watch the video?

in the photos everything looks quite small because u can't compare, but this island is 5 x 5.5km..

It still confounds me that people bitch about how many houses are crammed together. Has anyone here EVER been to the west coast? LA, San Diego, San Francisco... mile after mile after mile of homes crammed shoulder to shoulder. Hell, at least these places look nice, and while close together, it's not like they share a wall. Too many kids from the 'burbs...

The houses are too close together.

Yes and that they call exclusive with 3- 4 m place between the sidewalls of a house.

Yes and that they call exclusive with 3- 4 m place between the sidewalls of a house.

Hey, give me some money and the chance and i'd snap one up in a flash. It ain't no worse then most places in the world. By exclusive they mean the location i expect. And the location certainly is exclusive!!

Not many places in the world where every house on the estate has got it's own beach!!
Now that's exclusive!

Yes and that they call exclusive with 3- 4 m place between the sidewalls of a house.


again, watch the video, there is MUCH more space.

this thing is massive, the houses are really big, that is why it looks so dense.

again, watch the video, there is MUCH more space.

this thing is massive, the houses are really big, that is why it looks so dense.

where can I find this video????

http://rapidshare.de/files/22947195/NakheelCorpVidMay2006.avi.html

look at the people and cars/trucks here: http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/374/110le.jpg

Thx for the Link................

In the United States we refer to large houses crowded together as McMansions. This is not a complement. Economics dictate this reality. If the developers were smart, they would have allowed for some flexibility. They could have made more money by selling the lots separtely with building guidlines and restricitons. Some persons would have gladly paid a premium to buy adjacent lots for more room. These full-size mansions would have increased the value of adjacent lots. :)

^^ That was not a option and would have slowed down the entire project and depreciated the value of the houses.

Local population was NOT the target market for the project.

posted earlier today

I'm not 100% sure, but I think the 'palm tree' in the photo is artificial and is a diguised radio mast. There's one very similar opposite the entrance to the Burj Al Arab/Wild Wadi.

I think Frond C is one of those that Nakheel is pretty confident about handing over in December but I agree, there's still a ton of work to do.

Here are the remaining photos:

http://i4.tinypic.com/15x8ydi.jpg

Grand Foyer (study) seen from the beach side.

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Grand Foyer (2) showing extra floor from the beach side.

new pics by IMRE

Kerzner's Atlantis Hotel in the middle of the crescent:

2 more pictures:

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random updates on Villas and Shoreline apts:

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more pic here:

http://dubaionline.mconet.biz/index.php?action=pictures&cid=188&lsid=10584


23/07/2006

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WOW PALM, I think the houses well finishes in within than 3 weeks and ready to live in :)

yeah some houses will be ready for handover 4th Q 2006 (remember infrastructure etc must be in place also), but some might take until 2007 also.

Shoreline apts will be ready for handover in 2006 also.

This is very impressive!

However, I do find that the "beachhouses" are way too close to eachother.

Peter K

^^ well it is all about money...

on the other hand they were freakin cheap when launched..

How is the tunnel from palm to cresent going? Is it finished and sunk yet?

^^ it might be finished but they won't remove it since it will be used for construction traffic to the crescent as i said before in UAE thread.

anyway:

Dubai's Atlantis takes shape on Palm Jumeirah

By Robert Ditcham, Staff Reporter

http://archive.gulfnews.com/images/06/07/24/25_bz_atlantis_palm_4.jpg



Dubai: Dubai's $1.5 billion answer to the legendary lost city of Atlantis is emerging from the depths of the Arabian Gulf, slowly but surely taking shape on the sands of the Palm Jumeirah.

Seven months since work began on the ocean-themed resort, the first phase of the project is showing signs of life with approximately 14 per cent of construction work complete.

Sixteen tower cranes are in place, the project's 2,000 piles and associated foundation works have been completed and the concrete superstructure of the main Royal Tower Hotel and Entertainment Village is rising from the sand. The concrete structure for the huge Ambassador Tank lagoon has also been built.

During peak construction time, nearly 6,500 labourers will be at work on the site.

"What is really coming to light now is that the structure is taking shape and visibly rising," said Jim Boocher, president of project developer Kerzner Development. "When we open, visitors will be awed by what they see."

The Dubai development is the second Atlantis project launched by Kerzner International Limited and is a 50:50 joint venture with Istithmar PJSC, a subsidiary of Dubai Government's Port, Customs and Free Zone Corporation.

It follows the 2,317-room-hotel and water-park built on Paradise Island in The Bahamas.

When the first phase of the Dubai resort is completed in late 2008, it will be home to 65,000 marine animals and 1,539 hotel guests. It will also feature an underwater maze, 42 acres of water parks and a series of luxury shops and convention facilities.

Developers will then decide how to progress with phases two and three of the project, with condominiums and apartments, added hotels and an expanded water-park all possibilities.

Boocher said the main challenges are logistical. The firm is using a million cubic metres of imported fill to build up the land to a maximum of 12 metres above sea level. Most of the material is being sourced locally, while steel is being shipped from Turkey.

6500 workers???

OMG that is a hell of a lot of slave labour

The houses are so close to eachother! Who in hell wants to live there? I don't like it if my neighboors can see the inside of my house... But the project is amazing though! ,)

The houses are so close to eachother! Who in hell wants to live there? Like 4000 people who paid millions of dollars to do so

I don't like it if my neighboors can see the inside of my house... What like in Europe?


But the project is amazing though! ,) deffinatly a unique project. I was out on the palm a few days ago and the scale is actually massive, it is much bigger than the pictures show

I loved that mosque like arabian style house on one of the pics very very Arabian like. Gj!

The houses are so close to eachother! Who in hell wants to live there? I don't like it if my neighboors can see the inside of my house... But the project is amazing though! ,)


once again, u need to see a video with people walking there, the houses are massive, the whole thing is, like Sa Boy said, sooo big, the pictures can't give u the scale.

we have people who bought there in the UAE section and they said if u actually stand in front of it, there is enough space...

posted earlier today

Recent updates showing some of the detail work on the shorelines, didn't get any notes of which building is which this time, but good progress generally

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/6145/img0816ww9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

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Good progress on the road running between the shorelines, but no sign of any action yet on Trump building or the 2 additional shoreline blocks

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Couple of shots of Atlantis site

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And finally a couple of the tunnel that will link to the crescent, taken form inside the coffer dam. 2nd one is tunnel entrance on trunk side of the tunnel, with Atlantis in the background

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The Gateway Bridge to the Palm from the mainland is open now :okay:

http://i3.tinypic.com/23k7l11.jpg

great shots guys~~ :)

Hmm, doesn't look like it's an island there with that bridge shot, more like the Palm Peninsula.

It keeps looking better and better !! :)

that should improve construction speed.

do u think once the main construction is finished, they will make the palm a real island?

e.g remove the sand under the bridge?

Hmm, doesn't look like it's an island there with that bridge shot, more like the Palm Peninsula.

And how is the construction traffic suposed to go, if they've separated The Palm from the mainland since the begining?

e.g remove the sand under the bridge?
no i dont think they will remove the sand

no i dont think they will remove the sand

Thy must remove the sand under the bridge to be an island ;)

they dont have to

And how is the construction traffic suposed to go, if they've separated The Palm from the mainland since the begining?

I haven't been following the contruction from the start, sorry, I presumed they built the bridge first.

And to be an island, it must be seperated from the mainland by a body of water, so the sand should be removed if it is to be a true island.

Still, love the project though! :)

sand will be removed now the bridge is completed.

who said it had to be an island? Its a palm shaped outcrop of land is that not good enough for you?? personally i think they probably will move the sand under the bridge though, seems pointless to build a bridge otherwise.

How many times are people gonna make ill informed comments about the proximity of the houses. A little something that may surprise people, dubai is a city, houses in cities are next to each other. The houses are VERY cheap considering their size and location, of course they're gonna cram as many as possible onto the palm. Im curious as to how much money people think it would cost them to get a massive mansion like these in London?? I'll tell you now its gonna be in the 10s of millions, even more (double at least) if you don't wanna see your neighbours.

Housing in cities is close its nothing new

The sand will be removed but i doubt it will be for some time.

Who gives a rats ass if the sand is removed! show me some one else thats building some similar to this?

Dubai man-made island nears completion
By JIM KRANE, AP Business Writer

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - With 14,000 laborers toiling day and night, the first of Dubai's three palm-shaped islands is finally about to get its first residents.
The Palm Jumeirah, a 12-square-mile island group, is part of what's billed as the largest land-reclamation project in the world, the product of five years of brute hauling of millions of tons of Persian Gulf sand and quarried rock.
On Nov. 30, the palm will open to some 4,000 residents, said Issam Kazim, a spokesman for Dubai's state-owned developer Nakheel.
When fully complete by 2010, the Palm Jumeirah will be an offshore city, with some 60,000 residents and at least 50,000 workers in 32 hotels and dozens of shops and attractions, Nakheel said.
Observers say they are surprised that the fledgling developer has been able to build such a complex project more or less as planned, albeit with several snags that delayed the opening from last year.
"The project has captured people's imagination," said Colin Foreman of the Middle East Economic Digest. "Nothing like it has been done anywhere else in the world."
Nakheel's four island projects, the world's largest land reclamation effort, are reshaping Dubai's stretch of the Gulf coast.
The $14 billion project is a key part of this booming city's ambitions to rival Singapore and Hong Kong as a business hub, and surpass Las Vegas as a leisure capital.
The frenetic pace of development has utterly transformed Dubai from a sleepy trading and pearl-diving village in the 1950s to a flashy metropolis of 1.5 million.
The island's construction has not all been smooth, and most buyers were supposed to get keys to their island homes a year ago.
Some of the new land sank and Nakheel needed an extra year to add more and pack it with vibrating land compactors, Kazim said.
Reports from those who have wandered through the island's giant homes describe them as cheaply finished and set uncomfortably close to one another. Nakheel rejected an Associated Press request to visit the island.
Overburdened roads in Dubai's Jumeirah Beach neighborhood are expected to clog further as people begin moving onto the island, accessible, for now, by a single bridge. Mainlanders have already put up with years of road works and innumerable trucks hauling boulders to the island.
Those moving onto the Palm Jumeirah this year will have to live with construction for another three years, and then an influx of tourists. Most of the owners are foreigners, with Britons making up the largest group, Kazim said.
Many observers believe Dubai's frenetic homebuilding will soon outstrip demand.
"We've still got a shortage of properties in Dubai, but that's likely to become an excess in next six or 12 months," said Steve Brice, an economist with Standard Chartered Bank in Dubai.
Brice said year-old estimates that 50,000 housing units would hit the market in 2006 will be more than doubled. Nakheel, one of three big developers here, has said it will release 60,000 units in the 2nd half of 2006 alone.
Nakheel's two copycat Palms, the Palm Jebel Ali and Palm Deira, have also been delayed by design changes and other factors, Kazim said. A nearly finished fourth Nakheel archipelago, shaped like a map of the world, has attracted few buyers and remains mostly unsold.
Kazim said The World's sales trouble stems from simple economics: Nakheel is selling empty islands for tens of millions of dollars only to builders promising low-density luxury.
Dubai's government expects the Palm Jumeirah to become a signature tourist attraction, bringing in as many as 20,000 daily visitors, Kazim said.
Meanwhile, laborers living in a cruise ship moored offshore are scrambling to finish enormous concrete houses that are crammed together on the palm island's 17 "fronds." The fronds are narrow peninsulas as long as a mile, attached to the island's main trunk. Nakheel will hand keys to owners of 1,350 homes by Nov. 30, Kazim said.
Also nearing completion are 2,650 apartments in 20 high-rises that have sprung up on the island's trunk. The hulking complexes are visible from shore, where the sprawling island, with its dredges, highway overpasses and construction cranes has become a major eyesore for resort hotels on Dubai's once idyllic natural beaches.
Even after the handover in November, less than half of the island's construction will be finished. Kazim said the project won't be done until nearly 2010, if things go according to Nakheel's current schedule.
The 1,500 room Atlantis Hotel is already under construction by South Africa and Dubai-owned Kerzner International, and is expected to be finished in 2009. The hotel will be similar to its Atlantis hotel in The Bahamas.
A redesigned Trump Hotel and Tower on the island is also expected to open sometime in 2009, Kazim said.

posted in the UAE forum

Just back from a trip to Dubai.

Finally managed to get on the Palm and take these pics of the shorelines. The whole Palm is chocka with construction traffic and there is still much work to be done.

Nov/Dec looks very very optimistic for Shoreline handover. Canal facing owners will be overlooking a building site for at least 3 years

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is it always murky in dubai or is it dust from the building work

it's the dust... take into consideration the mammoth scale of this project and the sand/dust that goes with it

it looks like that all over dubai. what can i expect around the jebel al golf resort area

There's a 1 hour special on the Palm Projects on Channel 5 in the UK tonight !!
I think the program is on about 8pm. Please check your listings! I saw it in the schedule and have set it to record.

Really tall buildings on the Palm.

Can't wait to see if it's completed.

There's a 1 hour special on the Palm Projects on Channel 5 in the UK tonight !!
I think the program is on about 8pm. Please check your listings! I saw it in the schedule and have set it to record.

It's a repeat, I saw it last year.

Very good doc though! Just a bit out of date.

I am currently watching a progrramme on this masssive project, its called MEGASTRUCTURES. Itscoming right now on channel 5 in UK.

They also showed petronas tower of KL.

Yes megastructures is a National Geographic show and this particular episode is :old:

Credits to Jessica Franz & Stefan Zwanzger
(and thank you malec for finding their very very interesting website: http://www.true-dubai.com/)

Pictures taken on July:

http://www.true-dubai.com/homepage-palm-jumeirah/perspective-palm-jumeirah.jpg

http://www.true-dubai.com/homepage-palm-jumeirah/palm-jumeirah-trunk.jpg

^^^You can see rising in the crescent the Atlantis resort (http://www.atlantisthepalm.com):

http://www.true-dubai.com/homepage-palm-jumeirah/cranes-on-the-palm-jumeirah.jpg

More photos of construction maddness :hammer::

http://www.true-dubai.com/homepage-palm-jumeirah/lower-part-of-palm.jpg

http://www.true-dubai.com/homepage-palm-jumeirah/big-construction-palm-jumeirah.jpg

http://www.true-dubai.com/homepage-palm-jumeirah/middle-of-palm-jumeirah.jpg

More at: http://www.true-dubai.com/the-palm-jumeirah.htm

Amazing pictures. Cheers for the link.

Looks like good progress on the trunk section.
Wouldn't fancy one of those apartments (if thats what they are) that lap round the ends of each frond effectively linking the apartments on each frond. Would be like living on a main road. Noisy!!

looks like there is still a serious lack of infrastructure for the fronds.

great shots though.

Thanks for posting these excellent photo's. The Project will look great once everything is done. I hope they don't wait to long before starting the Trump Tower. So it doesn't end up getting finished a year after evrything else is completed.

When is this palm due to finish?

actually the first shorlines were to be ready sept 2005 (initially when sold in 2002).

naturally delays happened, so those are ready end 2007, the villas will be handed over from end 2006 to end 2007 probably.
first hotels on the crescent and the golden mile on the trunk will be ready by 2008.

the whole thing might be done completely with landscaping by 2010.

we heard it will be "opened" this november, nakheel will do a big promo i guess.

so we can still wait a long time until it's completed

Space picture 12.08.2006

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Wow, unbelievabel how fast the World is.

Space picture 12.08.2006

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Holy crap :eek2: :eek2:

by Pearl of the Gulf

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notice the construction on the top right of the crescent, what is it?

Do you mean this what i've marked:

http://i8.tinypic.com/24x1ix5.jpg

I think you mean that detail which i marked in a black box!

Am i right?

http://i7.tinypic.com/24x30qe.jpg

^well if its the one on the left, then its the new underground link to the crescent, otherwise its hard to say.. any ideas?

No I have absolutely no idea!it looks like they are landscaping some new land on the crescent!

yes germantower is right, this is what i mean.

No clue what it is????????????????A big question mark!

Space picture 12.08.2006

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What is that Island they are building infront of the Ports??? The rectangle shaped Island.

What is that Island they are building infront of the Ports??? The rectangle shaped Island.

I think it's Palm Jabal Ali

^^ NO. That's Jebel Ali Port expansion.

Two questions

1) How much is thing costing?

2) From the pictures I have seen, it seems like there is always a lot of haze in Dubai. Is always like that? Is it from pollution?

^^ 2. It is sand, blown up by the winds and stuck up in humid (mid)air.

^^ 2. It is sand, blown up by the winds and stuck up in humid (mid)air.


Ahhh. Thank you

^well if its the one on the left, then its the new underground link to the crescent

You are right. There was a press release about this a while back.

any updates?

View from beach at Madinat
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Thats the best update I could find.

Nice project. But even without these projects, Dubai will still be a very attractive place.

^^Very well said.

^^ Sure it would; I thought so even when I first came in late 1999.

nice pics

Oct. 2:
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Yesterday (Oct. 6):
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wonderful shots, are there anywhere updates from the Palm Jebel ali?

When is the handover scheduled, November? It wont be nearly finished. A lot of greenery to do for example.

looks good though btw, awesome to see it shaping up. When u look at the bridge at the frond u see how big it actually is.

have they started to build the Trump International Hotel and Tower?

Updates from atlantisthepalm.com

http://12.158.191.13/images/atlantis_1.jpg

http://12.158.191.13/images/atlantis_2.jpg

http://12.158.191.13/images/atlantis_3.jpg

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^^ WOW the first pic is just out of this world.

By Slugbelch (SSP) 07.10.2006

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By Slugbelch (SSP) :omg: unbelievable!!!

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Beautiful!!!, i like Dubai.

impressive feat of engineering but tacky and only time will tell if these islands can withstand mother nature.

how should people move in on october? This whole thing is a huge construction site!

I wouldnt like driving my maybach or bently through dirty sandy roads....

The Atlantic Hotel is coming along nicely on the top of the outer ring

how should people move in on october? This whole thing is a huge construction site!

I wouldnt like driving my maybach or bently through dirty sandy roads....

No one is moving in this year, however roads are more then ok even for a Ferrari Enzo or a Carrera GT.

^^ Nakheel has promised handover of 500 villas by end of november this year.

impressive feat of engineering but tacky and only time will tell if these islands can withstand mother nature.

Agree on the mother nature thing... but I dont think Palm Jumeirah is tacky in anyway... shud be a great place to live when the entire project is completed in 4-5 years time

This is surreal, i just can't say anything more... It's a huge urbanisation, a huge inversion...

It seems that the project is very advanced...

When it should be inaugurated?

end of this year , actually end of november with handover of the first 500 villas, (some of the fronds do actually look pretty much completed even with roads etc).

first phase with all shoreline apartments and villas will be ready mid 2007.

first hotel probably open end 2008 (except the shoreline one).

give em another three years and this will be an amazing place to live, and on completion in 2010.. probably one of the best properties to own in the world.

hope we'll see the construction start of Trump Tower soon

:eek2::eek2::eek2: Nice Pictures!!!!!!!!!!!

No one is moving in this year, however roads are more then ok even for a Ferrari Enzo or a Carrera GT.

But Shumacher is moving to the World, not the Palm,lol.

Any figures on the number of tourist to Dubai?

how long before the villas at least are all greened up? the island looks like horrible right now

The pictures are beautiful.

Agree on the mother nature thing... but I dont think Palm Jumeirah is tacky in anyway... shud be a great place to live when the entire project is completed in 4-5 years time



i dunno man, seeing all those mansions lined up on the fronds just doesn't do it for me. they are practicaly on top of one another.

wait to see some close ups, these houses are massive but fairly spaced, of course some more distance would have been good but it's quite ok now.

how long before the villas at least are all greened up? the island looks like horrible right now

some of the fronds are almost finished, there won't be thaaat much more greenery on those since the outlines are beaches..

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Thanks for the pictures Imre

^^WOW those residentials are amazing....

This whole project will be Amazing when done. :lock:

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Maybe they should change facade color, it looks so sandy, and with a surroundings like this, it is really to much

Are those pics taken from the Burj Stephen23? Looks like the view I had when I stayed there :)

Maybe they should change facade color, it looks so sandy, and with a surroundings like this, it is really to much

They are going to add in lots of green! Palm tree's, grass and all types of Vegetation. It's going to look great when they finish. :banana:

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PJA:

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WOW, Great pic's

Gotta say, the first 2 are pretty amazing and very recent also.
First time i've seen the underpass in the middle of the trunk
:cheers:

Thanks for the JA pics -- great job, very great job.

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AMAZING

Amazing. Are they going to restrict traffic to the neighborhoods once a lot of the work is completed? are they going to be gated communities?

I want a mansion on one of the islands:)

It indeed is quite amazing. But i think it would be even more amazing if they had done the old design woth a lot less homes. Now they are so close to eachother and a lot of them are the same as you can see on the pictures above. But still it is marvelous design.

Now they are so close to eachother and a lot of them are the same as you can see on the pictures above. But still it is marvelous design.
They look close to each other because you are seeing them from a distance. They are not spaced any differently than your average neighborhood although since these are mansions they should have a lot more space. They are separated like homes instead of the million dollar mansions they are.

Wonderful. Palm Jumeirah the first project of the Palms projects, great it seems like is almost finish, but the reality is that some parts are almost finish others are started to be build.

guys just a question WHATS THAT ON THE TOP of the tip frong???
are they going to remove that?? ehhe looks akward...

Jebel Ali Palm: Original size with more detail:
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other side:
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:banana: :banana: :banana:

guys just a question WHATS THAT ON THE TOP of the tip frong???
are they going to remove that?? ehhe looks akward...

I assume you are talking about the area of sand that joins the trunk to the cresent.
That is where the tunnel runs joining the 2. The tunnel is finished but the land will stay for a while to allow better access to the cresent while a lot of the building work is done and will be removed later.

How idyllic...

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^^ c'mon that is nonsense. have u ever seen close ups od these massive villas?
they are fairly well spaced.

very cool but indeed real shame that they're so packed together, isn't worth the price if you ask me... i mean of course there is reasonable space in between the houses....yeah for a house of 300 to 400 grand, but for more than a million?? no way. unless you're talking about old townhouses in old city centers, but these are supposed to be beach villas.

I like the highway they built in the Palma Jumeirah.

Yeah, definetely too many houses, they could've lost every other property and had a nice strech of beach each, not enough privacy.

Yep, it does not look very attractive with all the villas so close together.

^^ agree

^^ from the ground, it does. no doubt.

DUBAI ITS JUST SO AMAZING, THAT I THINK THEY NEED TO SEPARATE THAT CITY FROM THE WORLD, BECAUSE NOTHING COMPARES TO THAT MEGACITY