Height: 321
meters
Cost to
build: US$650 million
Completion
date: December 1999
Fast fact:
The hotel is the only seven-star hotel in the world, even though the hotel
proclaimed itself so.
Influenced
by the shape of the dhow, Burj al Arab isn't only a popular computer monitor
wallpaper; it has also established itself as the distinctive icon of
extravagance in Dubai, housing the world’s only self-proclaimed seven-star
hotel.
Sitting on
a manmade island, the “sailboat” has a private beach and a private curving
bridge that connects it to the rest of the city.
More
notable, however, is Tiger Wood’s annual tee-off on the 24-meter-wide helipad,
where Roger Federer and Andre Agassi also played a tennis match, 300 meters
above ground.
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