Couldn't find the thread for these.


Stunning projects to redefine skyline
By Saifur Rahman, Business Editor
Published: May 04, 2008, 00:12


Dubai: Dubai is set to re-define its skyline with a number of supertowers that will rise more than 100 floors and 600 metres, with a combined estimated value of Dh25 billion ($7 billion).

The projects, to be announced later this year, will be part of a new master-planned development that will raise Dubai's profile on urban development and masterplanning.

Dubai Government has already approved the projects, currently titled AC Towers, EP Site 07, 09 and 15. Designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, the projects are expected to be completed in five years.

Smith, the lead architect, also designed the Burj Dubai - currently the world's tallest tower at 160 floors.

"Dubai has already become the host to the highest number of supertowers in the world," Smith said.

"We are going to add a few more to the city's growing skyline. Out of the 13 supertowers that are being designed by us, five of them will be located in the UAE and one in Qatar."

His company has already signed with the "yet to be announced developer" to build these towers, which are unique in their own ways and will be more energy efficient.

Eco-friendliness, energy efficiency, sustainability and intelligent building systems are key to the strength of these towers, designed to stand out among the hundreds of towers that are being developed.

Smith said the new technology that he plans to employ on the buildings will pull air from the top floors, that are about 10 degree cooler, and spray them at the lower levels where temperature is higher.

"This is a unique technique never employed in supertowers. Dubai will be the first city in the world to have them implemented," he said.

"The new buildings that we have designed for Dubai can save energy by 40 to 60 per cent. We can get to '0' level in energy consumption.

"We can, in fact, design buildings that can create energy for the city. Instead of consuming energy, these buildings can actually contribute energy to the city."

AC Towers

http://i27.tinypic.com/28hphcn.jpg
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AC is a cluster of three supertowers - rising above 100 floors, to be connected at base with an atrium and with skybridges.

A mixed-use project, it will have a built-up area of 800,000 to 900,000 square metres and parking facilities for more than 6,000 people.

It will have a hotel, and residential, commercial, retail and entertainment space for people to be able to live and work.

"The new towers that we have planned, the AC Tower and EP towers will, for the first time, employ the latest architectural ideas and techniques. They will be more energy efficient, high density building and highly sustainable," Smith said.

"For example a canal and waterway will pass through the AC Towers and will create an open space for educational and theatrical activities."


Some larger renders:


AC Towers - 3 x 100+ floors

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/997/04bstower125sp7.jpg

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/6470/04bstower115hz7.jpg

A new article with pictures of a model of AC Towers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/arts/design/10bern.html?ref=arts


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malec, can you host the images on something other than imageshack? The site doesn't seem to be working in our area for a while now, and I'm really excited about this project

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s163/Joeyjordisonfan16/Adrian%20smith%20projects/untitledrhrthhrhr.jpg
Just over a year ago the office, hotel and condo tower known as the Burj Dubai became the tallest building in the world. But when its developer, Emaar Properties, announced that the Burj had surpassed the 509-meter Taipei 101 Tower in Taiwan, it refused to say how much higher the building would go. That set off a guessing game among architects and developers who follow the tall buildings equivalent of the arms race. A spire that is being built inside the tower has yet to be unveiled, according to Emaar, which hopes to keep the guessing - and marketing - game going until the building opens next year.

But in Chicago, Adrian Smith, the building's lead designer, says that the Burj Dubai is already "in the past." He predicts that a taller building will surpass it within five years. And when the Burj Dubai cedes the title, it may well be to another building by Smith, a blond bear of a man whose firm, Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture, has made a specialty of designing "supertall" buildings, some as high as the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building put together

Already he is designing six other buildings more than 330 meters (about 2,000 feet) tall in the United Arab Emirates, including a futuristic three-pronged tower with so many curving surfaces that it required technology created for Frank Gehry.

Thanks to his oil-rich clients Smith has the chance to create mammoth landmarks that will long outlive him; the risk is that these buildings, which are freed from nearly all stylistic constraints, will look ridiculous, like alien spacecraft that landed in the middle of the desert.

At 63, Smith is performing this high-wire act while building a big architecture firm essentially from scratch. When he led the team that created the Burj Dubai, he was part of the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the blue-chip firm behind many of the world's most famous skyscrapers, from Lever House in New York to the Sears and Hancock buildings in Chicago to the pagodalike Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai.

But after 39 years at Skidmore, including a stint as chief executive from 1993 to 1995, Smith left in 2006 to start a competing firm. That set off a struggle over bragging rights to the Burj.

Emaar lists Smith as the building's architect on its promotional materials. "They were buying Adrian Smith as a brand," said Carol Willis, director of the Skyscraper Museum in Manhattan. She described Smith as "a true artist." But when her museum, which occupies a space that Skidmore designed pro bono, organized a lecture series on the Burj, Smith was not included. (William F. Baker, a structural engineer from Skidmore, was the keynote speaker.)

Smith concedes that years of acrimony preceded his departure from Skidmore. But ultimately, he said, he left because the firm requires partners to retire at 65, and he was not ready to stop designing.

Today his Chicago firm is working on two dozen projects. The one closest to home is a proposed retrofit of the Sears Tower, a Skidmore landmark just a few blocks from his office. Smith is investigating ways to reduce energy and water use with a new glass skin and new mechanical systems
Otherwise nearly all of the firm's work is in the United Arab Emirates. As for his clients' penchant for supertall buildings, he said it is less about egomania than real estate savvy, a way of creating value in the middle of the desert. Emaar, he said, may never make money on the Burj, but it will profit from all of the buildings that surround it - including at least three by Smith. The developer has already commissioned Smith to design three condo buildings with views of the Burj.

Like many architects, Smith - who collaborates with his partner Gordon Gill on all of the firm's designs - is fond of saying that he wants to make buildings responsive to their context. That can be a problem in the Emirates: most of the time, he concedes, there is no context, at least in the form of surrounding buildings, to respond to.

As a result he has turned to a larger context. He explains the buildings' architectural features as responses to geography, geology and climate and is consumed by the notion of making supertall buildings "green."

Hauling vast amounts of steel and concrete into the desert to create an edifice that needs to be heated, air-conditioned and supplied with huge amounts of water hardly seems eco-friendly.

But Smith casts those projects as an opportunity for environmental innovation. Several of the towers he is designing have wind turbines that can take advantage of their elevation - winds are stronger at high altitudes than near the ground - to generate electricity. And cool air surrounding the top of a supertall building can be pumped to the lower levels, reducing the load on the air-conditioning.

Many of the buildings Smith is working on will be double walled, meaning that a gap of 20 centimeters, or 8 inches, or more between layers of glass will allow heated air to be directed toward the outside of the building in the summer or toward the inside in winter.

One of Smith's projects, the centerpiece of a development in Abu Dhabi called Masdar City, will have double walls as well as wind turbines and photovoltaic panels, which can convert sunlight into electricity.

But there is a risk that the green features will be more about good intentions than about results. Chris Twinn, a director of the energy sustainability team at Arup, the London global engineering firm, said that a wind turbine "may be worth its weight in gold" in terms of drawing attention to alternative energy sources, but that it "certainly doesn't generate a significant amount of the energy the building uses." As for solar energy, he said, it would take vast arrays of photovoltaic panels to power a supertall building in Dubai because of its reliance on air conditioning.

Twinn said that the only thing inherently green about a skyscraper is that it permits high-density development, which can encourage the use of public transportation. But that benefit diminishes, he said, when a building goes supertall, since the abundance of elevators and other mechanicals takes up a lot of usable floor space.

And then there's the possibility that the building won't serve much of a purpose in the first place. Smith isn't clear on who will be filling his towers in the Middle East.

Smith started work at Skidmore while still a student at the University of Illinois, Chicago. In later years he designed Modernist towers, most of them for corporate clients in Chicago, Europe and the Middle East. But around the time he made partner at Skidmore, in 1980, architecture was entering its Postmodernist period, when historical detailing was de rigueur.

One of his largest buildings for Skidmore, the AT&T headquarters in Chicago, completed in 1989, is a perfect illustration, from the huge bronze lanterns over the entrances to the granite in Art Deco-inspired patterns in the lobby.

Walking through that lobby on a recent afternoon Smith said that, viewed in hindsight, the building "related too much to the past." But he is not regretful: "Each building becomes a part of who you are."

As Postmodernism petered out, Smith returned to designing glass-and-steel buildings that were sleek but often bland.

An exception is Skidmore's Jin Mao Tower, which resembles a glittering stack of pagodas. But even as Jin Mao was rising on the Shanghai skyline, becoming the tallest building in China upon its completion in 1998, Smith's influence at the firm was waning.

The decision to leave was a hard one, he said, since he could only continue to design large buildings if he had a large staff. He and Gill, then a young associate partner at Skidmore, and a third partner, Robert Forest, invested over $3 million in the new firm, Smith said.

Many of their employees work on the top floor of a 1957 building in Chicago's central business district that has all the hallmarks of exuberant postwar corporate Modernism - walls of dark green marble, aluminum-sheathed columns and gurgling bronze fountains.

It is classic Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. That Smith's offices would occupy a space designed by the firm he left, and now competes with, isn't a coincidence.

"I like S.O.M.'s stuff," he said, explaining why he chose the space. He also liked its location, in the center of the city's business district, known as the Loop, surrounded by important buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries. They are a constant reminder, he said, of his desire to create an urban fabric.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/13/travel/tall.php?page=2

Moved this here

I think this is a good 5 years away. Clearing up the designated area itself might take a few years. Add to that dredging for the canals and other infrastructure works, and 5 years actually seems like a conservative estimate.

Not according to SA Boy :nuts:

I have it on good authority (and I have a 100% track record of breaking news on projects in Dubai), that the affection plan was issued for this site and that the pilling is underway.If someone can get pictures, the area is behind the park in Badda and has Swiss boring rigs on site. It is in the area where the first villas were demolished in Satwa.
Technically speaking its U/C.

The site he talks about is the cleared out area above the spire of emirates towers. Maybe someone can go there and what's going on?

http://img229c.imageshack.us/img229/7053/imresolt059av6.jpg

Not according to SA Boy :nuts:



The site he talks about is the cleared out area above the spire of emirates towers. Maybe someone can go there and what's going on?

http://img229c.imageshack.us/img229/7053/imresolt059av6.jpg

There were some pictures on flickr.com some days ago:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennismilam/2831974611/in/photostream/

Holy crap, if thats true, then it would be simply awesome! 3 supertall's will be going up soon. Another epic adventure is about to begin! Woohoo!

Oh and what's happening on the plot to the right of Emirates Towers? I can see some soil testing going on.

^^ That's this
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=290437&page=17

Thanks for the info.

Oh, and what are the possible locations of EP 07, 09 and 15?

Nice pics

Nice pics :)

Ill try going there as soon as possible, but because I am busy I am not promising anything...

man do i love this city, it just gets better, and better

DUBAI IS FUTURE CITY ! LOVE IT

From a friend:

http://i38.tinypic.com/343iruf.jpg


http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/8329/dsc000041so3.th.jpg (http://img156.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc000041so3.jpg) http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/9725/dsc000051px0.th.jpg (http://img90.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc000051px0.jpg) http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/3171/dsc000061mx9.th.jpg (http://img90.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc000061mx9.jpg)

:runaway:

AC Towers maybe?

^^ The digged up area is clearly for building(s) and not a canal, plus SA Boy said this is indeed the site for them.

Isn't the site a little small for 3 such massive towers? I'd have thought that the area would be atleast twice or thrice this area.

^^ But I doubt they have done all the excavation yet. If these are to be built there then there definitely will be a lot more dirt moved around before the day is over.

Here is the overview of the site (2 pictures stuck together)

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/1122/84886436gn0.th.jpg (http://img390.imageshack.us/my.php?image=84886436gn0.jpg)


Maybe these locations are for two of the towers? They seem to be doing some testing or something there.

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/3359/36702501pn5.th.jpg (http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=36702501pn5.jpg)

^^ But I doubt they have done all the excavation yet. If these are to be built there then there definitely will be a lot more dirt moved around before the day is over.

Here is the overview of the site (2 pictures stuck together)

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/1122/84886436gn0.th.jpg (http://img390.imageshack.us/my.php?image=84886436gn0.jpg)


Maybe these locations are for two of the towers? They seem to be doing some testing or something there.

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/3359/36702501pn5.th.jpg (http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=36702501pn5.jpg)

Even if it is for the other 2 towers, the site is still too small.

On a side note, if this is the development planned in Jumeirah, i fail to see why any other of Jumeirah would be spared. I think in time all of Jumeirah will be revamped.

Sorry, I meant 2 of the AC Towers, the third being off the screen to the right. If those two places where I marked with arrows are for two of those then I recon the distance is right. From the render and model it looks something like 150m to 200m between the centres of the towers. It seems like this on site as well.

Maybe these locations are for two of the towers? They seem to be doing some testing or something there.

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/3359/36702501pn5.th.jpg (http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=36702501pn5.jpg)

Those are piling rigs, they don't do tests, they dig/drill :cheers:

I know that. :)
I was thinking maybe they're doing something similar to what they were doing on the pentominium site at the start. I say this because surely that site doesn't look ready for real construction yet.

When i saw the picture with big excavation work surrounding with old ugly bulidings i just knew one thing there is nothing good for a single tower ! a good infrastructure 1st then they can do what ever they want eco friendely towers , palaces , villas ect ...but with ugly infrastructure like those buildings Eeey no good automosphere for eco green enviernment blah blah!

on the cityscape website is an add for Meraas development with the Atrium Tower !!!

http://www.meraasdevelopment.ae/registration.aspx

http://www.cityscape.ae/index.html

:omg: it's in Hall 7A

Unbelievable -the project will go through !!!! :eek:

16 September
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3199/2862752831_fff5b1683f_b.jpg

Larger size >>http://flickr.com/photos/annp/2862752831/sizes/o/in/set-72157607330898625/

Must be an old proposal for this. It's in a different location too.

http://s3images.coroflot.com/user_files/individual_files/original_90516_nGWNpWmim9q5FHxJ3dxUIsW5o.jpg

http://s3images.coroflot.com/user_files/individual_files/original_90516_izuRcXeDTjAeQJDGVeppvJK8u.jpg

http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_work.asp?individual_id=90516&experience=4&sort_by=1&seeking_work=2&c=1&

Unbelievable -the project will go through !!!! :eek:

You just realizing this???

who knows. maybe ac towers will be built there. maybe this is yet another one we don`t know yet. cityscape will show...

I checked the source and now I believe that this is a loosing competition by ATKINS and this will be the location for Atrium City Towers. Probabaly on the plot we have photographs pf, will go the EP towers 09 & 15 towers

Atkins designed that? It looks like a big heap of crap!

at first I thought it was that hydra tower thing...
I'm not a fan of those skyscrapers, but I have to admit, I do like the bottom parts of it.

Atkins designed that? It looks like a big heap of crap!

The guy who posted those plans and renders, works for Atkins (according to his profile)

All three tower complexes designed by Adrian Smith (AC, EP7, EP9 & EP15) will be within the Jumeirah Gardens City project. The tallest of the AC Towers (850m) has 201 floors.

This area will Smoothly beat BB !

i dont think it will, i mean BB is going to have 200 towers!! so i highly doubt that JGC will have that many or near it

The quility of supertowers is here With freshly beach . no laks no canals ! elso the Sea view of burj dubai is JGC Not BB. the singal tower here is way to higher than 5 Towers on BB .

keyword is sea view (from burj dubai ) , like what we are know about alburj tower n the power station area will be like this project or maybe waaaaaaaaay out !

alot of advantges in JGC .. don't forget qulitiy is upper then quantity .

even if u look at it from designer's angle u will find it all mega projects in this JGC are futuristic till 3000 !

P.S Smith's talkin

yeah i didnt think of it in that way,
what are u talking about " P.S Smith's talkin "

All three tower complexes designed by Adrian Smith (AC, EP7, EP9 & EP15) will be within the Jumeirah Gardens City project. The tallest of the AC Towers (850m) has 201 floors.

201floors?? From where you got that info???

If you look at the pictures with the silver model you'll see the location for this tower is surely opposite the burj dubai complex as in that atkins proposal. The model seems to fit quite well with this.

http://i28.tinypic.com/34ywyoj.jpg

It's all "I heard ..." at the moment, but I'll try to get some hard evidence if I can, even if for the moment it might be just to fully convince myself all that is correct. ;)

850m! I didn't expect that something so close will dwarf the Burj Dubai so soon! However, can you imagine when in around 5-6 years you will be able to see 2 monsters so close to each other, one on each side of SZR almost as if "A Gate to the Future"! Dramatic, but that's exactly how i see it.

houses waiting to be demolished

This could be the site !

http://i36.tinypic.com/2h3y16x.jpg

On the left of this site there are like 20 palm trees being planted. Unfortunately I couldn't take a picture. Could it be a future sales center?

Scroll =====>

http://i35.tinypic.com/24n32oz.jpg

Scroll =====> a board but nothing is there on it yet

http://i37.tinypic.com/2vt1dsg.jpg

The site fence

http://i38.tinypic.com/11ih9hg.jpg

http://i33.tinypic.com/fbg8lj.jpg

Inside the site

http://i35.tinypic.com/2dj9qgp.jpg

my god, that's simply breath-taking, congrats dubai. Greetings from Mexico

I'm in the queue for these at Cityscape if they are selling luv 'em just luv 'em

man i dont even keep up with all these dubai threads and projects becuase i know there going to be the best. every time i think dubai cant come up with anything else they somehow do. this is where i need to live.

http://www.meraas.ae/

Website has changed, but still nothing :(

^^ Don't expect anything before Cityscape

how many websites these people have :nuts:
http://www.meraas.com/
http://www.meraas.ae/
http://www.meraasdevelopment.ae/

only the second one has been updated

:omg:
Pics of model from Cityscape 08 today.
http://i33.tinypic.com/f9ifk1.jpg

http://i37.tinypic.com/2yw8wvd.jpg

http://i34.tinypic.com/2pydyzd.jpg

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http://i33.tinypic.com/2n6yd1g.jpg

New supertall towers coming from Chicago architect
By Blair Kamin | Chicago Tribune critic
October 7, 2008
Against a backdrop of nose-diving world markets, it sounds like a comic book fantasy: Three closely bunched, mega-skyscrapers would shoot in the sky, connected by skybridges and grand arches. A tower of light would knife into the sky between the buildings. Canal boats would glide underneath.

Crazy? Perhaps. But this is Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, already home to artificial palm-shaped islands and the world's tallest structure. There, one developer Sunday made public plans for an even-taller, mixed-use skyscraper, one that that would rise to a height of roughly 3,281 feet—easily taller than two Sears Towers stacked on end.

On Monday, Chicago architects Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill announced that another Dubai-based concern, Meraas Development, has commissioned them to design the trio of towers, as well as three other projects, all worth a total of roughly $15 billion.

Smith's credits include the world-record, still-to-be-completed Burj Dubai, a mixed-use tower now nearing its final height of about 2,600 feet.



He shaped that skyscraper while at the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

In a telephone interview Monday from Dubai, Smith sounded optimistic that the projects would go ahead because of Dubai's sizzling economy and shortage of office space there. He acknowledged, however, that a global slowdown could stop them.

"There is a national drive here—and has been for five to six years—to make Dubai the first real major city of the 21st Century," Smith said. "Part of that plan is a belief that if you build it, they will come."

The four projects are:

•1 Dubai, which will consist of three interconnected towers, each taller than 2,000 feet, housing hotels, offices, shops and condominiums. The mega-structure would have more than 13 million square feet, making it one of the world's largest as well as tallest complexes. The developer still must acquire land, Smith said.

•1 Park Avenue, another mixed-use tower that would rise about 1,800 feet, its undulating form evoking Dubai's heritage of pearl trading. The project would contain more than 4 million square feet of offices, condominiums, apartments and hotel rooms. Excavation has begun, Smith said.

•Park Gate, which would consist of six midrise towers arranged in facing pairs, creating a shaded garden space comparable to Middle Eastern markets. The mixed-use project would allow energy from one building to be shared with another. Foundation work has begun, Smith said.

•Meraas Tower, a mixed-use skyscraper, about 1,800 feet tall, combining hotel space, offices and living units. The developers need to buy and clear the site, Smith said, and construction won't start for two years.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-dubai-1007oct07,0,5166021.story

do we have a location map with the numbers on them?

Pelase edit title to 'One Dubai'

http://devicedaily.com/misc/jumeirah-gardens-for-dubai-three-projects-one-city-within-a-city.html

05/December/2008

Jumeirah Gardens

EP07 site

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/700/imresolt133gk0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

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http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1100/imresolt140cn0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

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EP09 site, what a huge hole there:)

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/5426/imresolt112op5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

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http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/8238/imresolt120jj3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

some pics of JG

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6901/imresolt012uz0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2131/imresolt050cz4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3613/imresolt086gd2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

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http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2449/imresolt132uy8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

more on the flickr soon..

They have been working on this since 6 months?!?!

^^ Nope not this one. Imre just posted all the jumeirah gardens pictures in these threads. The ones where work is going on are:

Park Gate (EP 09)
One Park Avenue (EP 07)

^^One Park Avenue work going on !!! Totally awesome !!!

Thought about credit crunch and it seems this doesn't matter here !

One of my favorite towers! Can't wait to see this one go up!

Programme manager stops work on Jumeira Gardens

US-based CH2M Hill is no longer working as the programme manager on the AED350bn ($95bn) Jumeira Gardens project for Dubai-based developer Meraas Development.

At the end of last year Meraas said that it was planning to review its masterplan in response to the changing economic climate (MEED 1:12:09).

The original designs for the Jumeira Gardens project covered two main areas: the redevelopment of land in the Satwa area between Sheikh Zayed road and Al-Wasl road; and from Al-Dhiyafa street to the new Creek extension in the Safa Park area and seven offshore islands.

The first phase covers an area of 820,000 square metres. It was to have six main blocks of high-rise, mid-rise and low-rise office, residential and retail buildings, as well as two hotels and a shopping area.

Landmark buildings planned as part of the project include 1 Dubai, which will be one of the tallest and largest buildings in the world if it is built, the Park Avenue tall tower, and Park Gate, which will be made up of a series of paired towers spanning a canal running through the development.

more render " from world thread"

http://www.smithgill.com/#/work/by_name/1_dubai

is this masterpiece completely dead then?

We will see !! Let's wait for new news about JGC !

Think will let this thread be till the year 2009 is over !!

Smith and Ken Real Estate
Jumeirah Gardens project modified to suit market needs
March 19, 2009
Category: Dubai Real Estate - Posted by: Cliff

Meraas Development, the developers of the Dh350 billion Jumeirah Gardens project plan to speed up once the Dubai real estate market stabilises.

In view of the quick changes in the real estate market, and due to the grim global economic situation, Meraas Development has now changed its focus on adapting its product mix and designs in line with the prevailing market conditions.

In a statement, the company said it was redefining its short-term approach and strategy to focus on developing the initial phases of Jumeirah Gardens. However, the company has reconfirmed its commitment in developing an integrated city in the very heart of Dubai.

The Jumeirah Gardens project was launched in October 2008 by Meraas Development. It includes seven district areas and is a mixed use development, spread across a land area of 110 million sq. ft. It is located between Diyafa Street and Safa Park, along the northern end of Sheikh Zayed Road and would require 12 years for completion.

The developer plans to develop 8 buildings in Jumeirah Gardens, including One Dubai, One Park Avenue, and Park Gate with six buildings. When completed, Jumeirah Gardens aims to accommodate a population of 50,000 to 60,000 residents.

05/October/2009

Cityscape 2009 ,One Dubai, Meraas stand

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05/October/2009

Cityscape 2009 ,One Dubai, Meraas stand

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^^ This one has to go ahead. Beautiful.

Mhhh ! Don't understand, that the project is still always on Cityscape ! Don't think this will go through... Shame...

03/November/2009

Jumeirah Gardens , demolution in full progress

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03/November/2009
Jumeirah Gardens , demolution in full progress


in FULL progress? ...maybe they want to build it soon! :banana: