The world's largest underwater hotel is being planned for Dubai, with rooms both on the seabed and on stilts above the surface (+ slideshow). More »
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Water Discus underwater hotel
Competition: five copies of the Dubai Graphic
Encyclopedia to be won
Competition: we've teamed up with publishers Brusselssprout to give readers the chance to win five copies of their new Dubai Graphic Encyclopedia. More »
Burj Khalifa by SOM

Here are some photos of the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa by Chicago office Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, which opened in Dubai earlier this month. More »
Dubai to open world's tallest building
- BBC
Dezeenwire: the world's tallest building, the Burj Dubai, opens in Dubai today - BBC
Dezeen's top ten: Dubai projects

Since Dubai has been in the news a lot recently, here are our ten most popular stories about projects in Dubai. Guess what? Karim Rashid is at number one with his Switch Restaurant (above). More »
Switch Restaurant by Karim Rashid

Designer Karim Rashid has completed the interior of a restaurant in Dubai, UAE. More »
Museum of Middle Eastern Modern Art
by UNStudio
Michael Schumacher World Champion
Tower by LAVA

Architects Chris Bosse and Tobias Wallisser of Laboratory for Visionary Architecture Asia Pacific (LAVA) have unveiled Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower at the Cityscape property fair in Dubai. More »
Nakheel Harbour & Tower by Woods Bagot

Architects Woods Bagot have designed a kilometre-high tower for developer Nakheel in Dubai. More »
Xeritown by X–Architects

X–Architects of Dubai have designed an urban complex called Xeritown that aims to be a more sustainable mode of development than recent projects in the emirate. More »
Dubai Opera House by Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid Architects have developed designs for a new opera house and cultural centre for Dubai. More »
Waterfront City masterplan by OMA

Office for Metropolitan Architecture have completed the masterplan for Waterfront City, a new city proposed for Dubai. More »
Dubai Renaissance by OMA 2

OMA in the Middle East: Office for Metropolitan Architecture have sent over a few more images of Dubai Renaissance, a 300m-tall rotating skyscraper. More »
Porsche Design Towers by OMA/Porsche Design

OMA in the Middle East: Office for Metropolitan Architecture have sent us some new renderings, plans and sections of Porsche Design Towers I and II, which they are jointly designing with Porsche Design. More »
Dubai Renaissance by OMA

Dubai Renaissance is a building designed last year by Rem Koolhaas and Fernando Donis of OMA as an entry for a competition for iconic central feature at Business Bay in Dubai. OMA lost the competition to Zaha Hadid's Dancing Towers project, but now OMA is negotiating to build the structure at another site in the Emirate. More »
