Construction of the Burj Al Arab was initially kept under wraps, with not a peep until the world’s media were told of the ...

An international team of architects spent the next seven years under a veil of secrecy creating the man-made island and 321-meter tall building. The Burj al Arab (which means “Arabian Tower ...

The Jumeirah Burj Al Arab, Dubai's last word in opulent ... Occupying a private man-made island, connected to the mainland by a dramatic narrow causeway, the hotel towers 321 metres above the ...

Its curved glass façade – modeled after the sails that have graced Dubai's waterways all these years – shelters a world-class, über-luxurious hotel located on its own human-made island.

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