MegaStructures - Season 4 Episode 1 Dubai's Dream Palace (Worlds Tallest Hotel)
Megastructures heads to the tiny desert kingdom of Dubai to explore the remarkable engineering behind the seven-star Burj Al-Arab Hotel. Five years in the making, this striking building stands like a gigantic white sail off the shore of Dubai. As this programme reveals, a refusal to compromise on the part of the hotel’s young designers ensured that the project pushed the boundaries of design. The Burj Al-Arab was envisaged by Dubai’s crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, as a means of diversifying the country’s economy away from oil into tourism. The Sheikh dreamt of a luxury hotel that would put Dubai on the world map, and surprised many by choosing a relatively inexperienced British firm to supply the design.
Year: 2012
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States of America
Studio: National Geographic
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First Air Date: Jan 01, 2004
Last Air date: May 24, 2012
Season: 9 Season
Episode: 158 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 7.00/10 by 14.00 users
Popularity: 47.829
Language: English, French, Hungarian
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