Slideshow Transcript

1. Slide 3: ¿Remember this? Yes, yes it is the little hotel in Dubai.
2. Slide 5: This is the Burj Al Arab, the only 7 stars hotel in the world, it was built in only 18 months... And opened its doors in 2003.....
3. Slide 6: This hotel is in Dubai, in the Arab Emirates. Yes, a lot of oil and a lot of money....
4. Slide 7: Just to go in and “see it” costs $75. Can you imagine what it would cost to spend the night?…..
5. Slide 8: ... In a little room like this one....
6. Slide 9: Or this one....
7. Slide 10: Let me tell you: you can enjoy one night in a luxury suite from $7,500 to $15,000 the most expensive...
8. Slide 11: This is the panoramic suite for $ 8,250 the night...
9. Slide 12: You need to add what it will cost you to dine in this restaurant
10. Slide 13: Once you are there you can swim in one of the numerous pools....
11. Slide 14: Or perhaps take a bath in something more “simple” and intimate...
12. Slide 15: You can have a drink in one the numerous bars...
13. Slide 16: .... and be always in a “meeting”...
14. Slide 17: ... or play a tennis match with Nadal...
15. Slide 18: Crazy isn’t it? And who will worry if you lost a ball?…. For the price of one hour of court you can buy hundreds of balls...
16. Slide 19: And take a look at the “Indoor Winter Season” You can ski down the slope while everyone else is outside in an 85º F... Yes it is also in Dubai.
17. Slide 21: Indoor Winter Season was like this a couple of years ago...
18. Slide 22: And now... finished, How do you like it?, colosal, isn’t it?... (look at the size of the palm trees...)
19. Slide 23: My friends... We are seeing the city with the biggest growing rate in the world... Would you like to see some of the inmediate future projects?... Take a tissue to clean your drooling....
20. Slide 24: 15% of the large towers being built in the world are in Dubai... Can you imagine the problem in operating these cranes
21. Slide 25: This is a “virtual model” of the Burj Tower In 2008, it will be the tallest is the world.
22. Slide 28: This is the beginning....
23. Slide 29: From another angle
24. Slide 35: This is a drawing with the development of the “Marina Dubai” zone, the palms and earth are man made islands.
25. Slide 38: The “Jumeirah Palm” is the “smallest” palm” we saw in the drawing...
26. Slide 42: This is the trunk of the palm
27. Slide 43: This is an aerial view from the plane Look at the Hotel Burj Al Arab
28. Slide 44: These are the homes in the leaf of the palm
29. Slide 46: Aerial view of the Jumeirah zone.....
30. Slide 47: This is “The World”: Imitating a world map, the group of islands only costs $7 million. Note: To go to your private island you need a helicopter or a boat.
31. Slide 48: This is the biggest theme park in the world and it will be finished in 2009 “Dubailand”
32. Slide 49: We will see dinosaurs in true size...
33. Slide 50: This is the Residential Jumeirah Beach 40 blocks of buildings
34. Slide 55: Work is done day and night
35. Slide 57: Finally, take a look at this rotating skyscraper....
36. Slide 58: This tower has a height of 250 meters and 59 floors mounted in a concrete core which will serve as a rotating shaft. The floors will be pre- assembled and then attached to the core of the building. Each floor will rotate separate from the others. The velocity will be slow and not noticed by the residents.
37. Slide 59: The tower will have solar and aeolian electric system generators to be self- sufficient. The project is Italian and has not begun yet. It is predicted that its construction, will last two and a half years. The projected cost will be around 500 million dollars.