Dubai

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• Before air conditioning, Dubai engineered its own breeze. Al Fahidi's wind towers pulled cool air down into coral-stone houses — a nineteenth-century climate system that still works. The oldest quarter of the city was a…

  17.08.2026 1 390 просмотров

• Dubai's opera house refuses to stay one building. Shaped like a sailing dhow, its floors and walls reconfigure — theatre one night, concert hall the next, a banquet by the weekend. Even the architecture here has a secon…

  16.08.2026 2 150 просмотров

• The world's first 360-degree infinity pool hangs 200 metres over Dubai. Aura Skypool — a ring of water at the crown of a tower, the Palm on one side, the skyline on the other. Swimming was horizontal until Dubai got inv…

  15.08.2026 2 600 просмотров

• From one port in Dubai grew a company that runs them on six continents. DP World moves roughly one in ten of the world's shipping containers through its terminals. Check the label on almost anything you own. Odds are, D…

  14.08.2026 3 080 просмотров

• 🏆 Another winner! Congratulations @Yas_lmnoq — 10,000 Stars (worth $150) just landed in your account. First correct answer. Proof above — as always. The draws aren't over. And the biggest prize hasn't landed yet. Stay c…

  13.08.2026 3 270 просмотров

• Speed round. First correct answer takes it all. 10,000 Stars — $150 — to the first correct comment below. In our Ain Dubai post: its cabins float higher than a tower of how many storeys? 30 · 45 · 52 · 60 · 68 · 75 · 82…

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• More than a tenth of Dubai is protected desert. Inside its reserves, the Arabian oryx — once extinct in the wild — walks free again among the dunes. The city that builds everything chose to leave this untouched.

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• Under Dubai runs the world's largest district cooling network. Chilled water flows through hidden arteries to thousands of towers — one system exhaling cool air for an entire city. The skyline gets the photos. The basem…

  12.08.2026 3 350 просмотров

• The largest passenger aircraft ever built found its true home in Dubai. Emirates flies the biggest A380 fleet in aviation history — more than a hundred double-decker giants, with lounges and showers at 40,000 feet. Othe…

  11.08.2026 3 640 просмотров

• In 1960, Dubai's runway was compacted sand. Today the same airport is the busiest international hub on Earth — for eleven straight years. Sixty-odd years from sand strip to centre of the world: the shortest long story e…

  10.08.2026 3 980 просмотров