DUBAI MALL
Dubai - U.A.E

The Dubai Mall Project comprises a 5-million ft2 mall, residential and retail facilities. The actual mall will cover the equivalent of 50 international – sized soccer pitches and will be the largest shopping space in the world, larger than any existing malls in the USA.

When completed in 2006, it is expecting to receive 35 million visitors in the first full year of business, followed by annual increases of 20% to 30%.

Resembling an ocean liner from outside, the interior of the Mall w ill accommodate over 1000 individual shops located in between ten and 15 distinct “malls –within-a-mall’.

The three-storey glass façade Mall will house the world’s largest gold market and will be adjacent to a 4.3-million ft2 artificial lake. The main centerpiece, Water world, will incorporate a water terrace, fountain oasis, waterfront atrium and an aquarium.

The aquarium will be three storeys tall and feature glass walk-through tunnels that will contain sharks, stingrays, turtles and other exotic marine life.