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Dubai Building $1 Billion Robotic Jurassic Park

Tags: Dubai + Jurassic Park + Restless Planet

Valmort
Posted by Valmort 1 year 11 months ago; via slashfilm.com/2007/12/18/...

A new $1.1 billion Jurassic theme park called Restless Planet, is being built in Dubai. The park will feature 109 animatronic dinosaurs of over 40 different species in a 500,000 square foot (46,000 square metre) space. The new park will be the star attraction of a large Las Vegas-esque entertainment and business development called City of Arabia.

The sets are being produced by Impossible Pictures, the same people that created the BBC television series Walking with Dinosaurs. The robotic dinosaurs are being created by animatronics experts,...

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Hydropolis: The World’s First Luxury Underwater Hotel in Dubai

Tags: Hydropolis + Joachim Hauser + Dubai + Underwater + Hotel + Arabian Gulf

LuBo
Posted by LuBo 2 years 10 months ago; via designbuild-network.com/p...

Dubai is building the world’s first luxury underwater hotel called Hydropolis.

"Hydropolis is not a project; it’s a passion," enthuses Joachim Hauser, the developer and designer of the hotel. His futuristic vision is about to take shape 20m below the surface of the Arabian Gulf, just off the Jumeirah Beach coastline in Dubai. The £300 million, 220-suite hotel is due to open at the end of 2007 and will incorporate a host of innovations that will take it far beyond the original blueprint for an underwater complex worthy of Jules Verne.

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