1. Welcome to Dubai, UAE

2. Dubai in 1990 Time-Lapse video

3. The same street in 2003

4. Last year

5. Dubai is said to currently have 15-25% of all the world's cranes .

6. The Dubai Waterfront.  When completed it will become the largest waterfront development in the world .

7. All of this was built in the last few years, including that island that looks like a palm tree.

8. The Palm Islands
New Dutch dredging technology was used to create these massive man made islands. 
They are the largest artificial islands in the world and can be seen from space. 

9. The World Islands
300 artificially created islands
Each island will have an estimated cost of $25-30 million.
There is currently a delay in completion and only one has been commercially developed.

11. The Burj al-Arab
The worlds tallest hotel
The only '7 star' hotel and the most luxurious hotel in the world. 
It stands on an artificial island in the sea.

12. Tennis anyone?

14. Hydropolis The world's first underwater hotel
Built in Germany and then assembled in Dubai

16. The Burj Khalifa
Over 2,700 feet (3 times higher than the Eiffel Tower)
World's tallest building
Exterior made up of over 26,000 individually cut glass panels

19. View from the top…

20. Trump International Hotel & Tower
The centerpiece of one of The Palm Jumeirah.

21. Dubailand will be twice the size of Disney World
It will contain 45 projects divided into 5 themed zones
3 million square feet
Full completion by 2020, but set to open in 2015

23. Dubai Sports City 
A huge collection of sports arenas located in Dubailand.

24. The Dubai Marina is an entirely man made development that will contain over 200 high-rise buildings when finished. 
It will be home to some of the tallest residential structures in the world.

25. Some of the tallest buildings in the world line the Dubai Marina.  
The UAE Spaceport would be the first spaceport in the world if construction ever gets under way.

26. The Dubai Mall is the largest shopping mall in the world with over 9 million square feet of shopping and around 1200 stores.

27. Ski Dubai is the largest indoor skiing facility in the world.

28. The Dubai World Central International Airport will become the largest and busiest airport in the world  

29. The Dubai Metro system, once completed, will become the largest fully automated rail system in the world.

30. There are more construction workers in Dubai than there are actual citizens.