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Burj Al Arab

The Burj Al Arab is a luxury hotel located on an artificial island off the coast of Dubai. At 321 meters tall, it is the fourth tallest hotel in the world. The hotel rests on an island constructed 280 meters offshore and required complex engineering to build its foundation on the sand and secure it against erosion. Inside, the atrium rises 180 meters and the suites range greatly in size but feature design details that blend eastern and western influences.

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Burj Al Arab

The Burj Al Arab is a luxury hotel located on an artificial island off the coast of Dubai. At 321 meters tall, it is the fourth tallest hotel in the world. The hotel rests on an island constructed 280 meters offshore and required complex engineering to build its foundation on the sand and secure it against erosion. Inside, the atrium rises 180 meters and the suites range greatly in size but feature design details that blend eastern and western influences.

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Burj Al Arab:

The Burj Al Arab is a luxury hotel located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
At 321 m (1,053 ft), it is the fourth tallest hotel in the world. The Burj Al
Arab stands on an artificial island 280 m (920 ft) out from Jumeirah beach,
and is connected to the mainland by a private curving bridge. It is an iconic
structure whose shape mimics the sail of a ship.

The beachfront area where the Burj Al Arab and Jumeirah Beach Hotel are
located was previously called Chicago Beach. The hotel is located on an
island of reclaimed land 280 meters offshore of the beach of the former
Chicago Beach Hotel[3]. The locale's name had its origins in the Chicago
Bridge & Iron Company which at one time welded giant floating oil storage
tankers on the site.

The old name persisted after the old Hotel was demolished in 1997. Dubai
Chicago Beach Hotel remained as the Public Project Name for the
construction phase of the Burj Al Arab Hotel until Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashid Al Maktoum announced the new name.

Highlights:

Several features of the hotel required complex engineering feats to achieve.


The hotel rests on an artificial island constructed 280 m (920 ft) offshore. To
secure a foundation, the builders drove 230 forty-meter (130 ft) long
concrete piles into the sand.

Engineers created a surface layer of large rocks, which is circled with a


concrete honeycomb pattern, which serves to protect the foundation from
erosion. It took three years to reclaim the land from the sea, while it took
fewer than three years to construct the building itself. The building contains
over 70,000 m3 (92,000 cu yd) of concrete and 9,000 tons of steel.

Inside the building, the atrium is 180 m (590 ft) tall.

Burj Al Arab is the world's second tallest hotel (not including buildings with
mixed use). The structure of the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang North
Korea, is 9 m (30 ft) taller than the Burj Al Arab.
Hotel Rating:

The hotel is officially rated Five-Star Deluxe. However, it is frequently


described as "the world's only Seven-Star hotel," although the hotel
management claims to never have done that themselves. In the words of a
Jumeirah Group spokesperson: "There's not a lot we can do to stop it. We're
not encouraging the use of the term. We've never used it in our advertising."
According to the group, the "Seven-Star" notion was brought to being by a
British journalist who visited the hotel on a pre-opening press trip. The
journalist "described the Burj al Arab in her article as above and beyond
anything she had ever seen and called it a seven-star Dubai Hotels."

The hotel is managed by the Jumeirah Group. Despite its size, the Burj Al
Arab holds only 28 double-story floors which accommodate 202 bedroom
suites. The smallest suite occupies an area of 169 m2 (1,820 sq ft), the
largest covers 780 m2 (8,400 sq ft).

Suites feature design details that juxtapose east and west. White columns
show great influence. Bathrooms are accented by mosaic tile patterns.

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