Dubai_Mall

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dubai Mall Dubai Mall The Dubai Mall Golden Resources Mall, SM City North Edsa, and SM Mall of Asia. Description Over 12 million sq ft (equivalent in size to more than 50 soccer pitches), the Dubai Mall has a total internal floor area of 5.9 million square feet (55 ha) and leasable space of 3.77 million square feet (35 ha), about same as West Edmonton Mall.[4] It surpasses the previously largest mall in the Middle East City Stars, which is located in Cairo, Egypt. With a gross area of over 8 million sq feet (74 ha), City Stars was the largest mall in the Middle East since 2003. Facts and statistics The Dubai Mall has 10–15 distinct ’mallswithin-a-mall’, totaling 9 million ft² (84 ha) of Dubai, UAE Location shopping retail space (comprising of a total of 1200 25°11′51″N 55°16′45″E / 25.1975°N stores, when fully operational). Coordinates 55.27917°E / 25.1975; Featured attractions include: the world’s 55.27917Coordinates: 25°11′51″N Gold Souk with 220 retailers; the largest 55°16′45″E / 25.1975°N 55.27917°E / 850,000 sq ft (79,000 m2) Fashion Catwalk 25.1975; 55.27917 atrium; Fashion Island (Avenue), with 70 November 4, 2008 Opening date stores dedicated to haute couture; the Middle East’s Dutco Balfour Beatty and AGCCC first Galeries Lafayette department Developer store; Oasis Fountain Waterfall; and WaterEmaar Properties Owner Front Atrium. Other attractions include the region’s first SEGA indoor theme park, SEGA 1200 No. of stores and services Republic covering 76,000 sq ft (7,100 m2); KidZania, a 80,000 sq ft (7,400 m2) children’s No. of anchor tenants 4 ’edu-tainment’ centre; a 22-screen Cineplex, Total retail floor area 12.1 million ft (112 ha) the largest in Dubai; and The Grove, an indoor-outdoor streetscape with fully retractthedubaimall.com Website able roof. It also features over 160 food and beverage options, 220 gold & jewelry outlets; The Dubai Mall is the world’s largest shopa supermarket and an organic food mart. ping mall, located in Dubai, United Arab Among the shops is British toy store HamEmirates. Part of the Burj Dubai complex, the ley’s, which opened a 32,000-square foot 20-billion-dollar project is the medium in (3,000 m²) store that includes a replica of total area with 1,200 shops.[1][2] Access to London’s Regent Street, with the franchise the mall is provided via Doha Street, rebuilt owned by Retail Arabia. Many shops, [3] as a double-decker road in April 2009. however, remained shuttered for a long while Twice delayed, Dubai Mall opened on to come. Bloomingdales might open by 2010 November 4, 2008, with about 600 retailers, and Galeries Lafayette, by February, 2009. It marking the world’s largest-ever mall openalso has a 250-room luxury hotel, 22 cinema ing in retail history. However it is not the screens plus 120 restaurants and cafes. The largest in gross leaseable space, and is surMall has over 14,000 parking spaces across passed in that category by several malls in3 car parks, with valet services and a car loccluding the West Edmonton Mall, the world’s ator ticketing system.[5] largest shoping mall,South China Mall, 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The mall has won five awards. It won two awards at the Retail Future Project Awards at MAPIC, Cannes, in 2004, for Best Retail Development Scheme (Large), Best Use of Lighting in a Retail Environment.[6] And the Dubai Mall brochure has won three awards at the Summit Creative Awards 2005, in Portland, Oregon; Gold award for Best Art Direction / Graphic Design, Silver award for Best 4-colour B2B Brochure, and Judges Special Recognition award.[6] Dubai Mall pressure of 10 million litres of water used in the aquarium, but its transparency gives visitors clear views of over 33,000 marine animals on display. The Mall adopted an International Standard of Ethics and Animal Welfare Policy in its development and operation.[7][8][9] Dubai Ice Rink The Mall’s Dubai Ice Rink multi-purpose venue, uses refrigeration plant technology by developing 1.5 inches (38 mm) of ice bed, almost 3 times the thickness of an NHL ice rink for Olympic-sized attraction. Dubai Ice Rink can host a capacity of up to 2,000 guests, when converted into a multi-functional hall with world-class multimedia system including a 20 m × 10 m LED screen. Operations Manager, Richard Rowlands, a 7 years Welsh figure skating pairs, described it: "Dubai Ice Rink in itself is an exciting facility, bringing the first-ever Olympic-sized ice rink to Dubai. A top-class facility offering the best of, including over 1,800 pairs of skates The Gold Souk The Olympic Sized IceRink Dubai Aquarium and Discovery Centre The aquarium The Mall’s Dubai Aquarium and Discovery Centre, developed and operated by Oceanis Australia Group, officially earned the Guinness World Record for the world’s "Largest Acrylic Panel" (32.88 m wide × 8.3 m high × 750 mm thick and weighing 245,614 kg). The acrylic viewing panel is larger than Japan’s Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium (22.5 m wide × 8.2 m high and 600 mm thick). Its 750 mm thick acrylic viewing panel can withstand imported from a leading manufacturer in Italy to fit children and adults of all ages and sizes, the Dubai Ice Rink will host themed nights, Learn-to-Skate programmes, figure skating lessons and hockey matches.The advanced technology used at the Dubai Ice Rink 2 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ensures that the consistency of the ice-bed is maintained at all times. By incorporating the refrigerator technology of pushing in glycol through a network of pipes, and monitoring the cooling over a period of five to six days, the 38 mm ice-bed is tailored to withstand multiple activities in a safe environment."[10][11] 2007 from the Burj Dubai Dubai Mall See also • Mall of Arabia (Dubai) • List of the world’s largest shopping malls Construction The mall was built by a joint venture of Dutco Balfour Beatty, Al Ghandi/CCC[12] and Turner Construction for Emaar Properties and was scheduled to be completed in 2006, claiming to be the size of 50 "internationalsized football (soccer) pitches". Most of the workers used in construction of the mall were Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi & Sri Lankan guest workers. The internal mobile phone coverage for Dubai Mall was commissioned, integrated and carried out by Motorola Dubai for Etisalat & DU. References [1] http://www.emaar.com/ index.aspx?page=the-dubai-mall [2] gulfnews.com, Dubai Mall: A milestone harks back to humble origins [3] Ahmed, Ashfaq (2009-04-19). "Doubledecker roads will be open by month’s end". Gulf News: p. 2. http://archive.gulfnews.com/nation/ Traffic_and_Transport/10305345.html. Retrieved on 2009-04-28. [4] http://www.gulfnews.com/business/ Development/10204211.html [5] tradearabia.co, The Dubai Mall opens with 600 retailers [6] ^ The Dubai Mall, Emaar, retrieved March 12, 2006 [7] ameinfo.com, Dubai Mall aquarium breaks world record [8] www.albawaba.com, Dubai Aquarium & Discovery Centre Sets Guinness Record for ’World’s Largest Acrylic Panel’ at The Dubai Mall [9] zawya.com, Aquarium at The Dubai Mall scoops world record [10] arabianbusiness.com, Ice skating in the sun and sand [11] www.ibtimes.com, The Dubai Mall Opens With Largest Number of Retailers in the World’s Largest-Ever Mall Opening [12] Balfour Beatty Website: Burj Dubai Mall Shops The Dubai Mall contains more than 1,200 shops and is anchored by Galeries Lafayette, Debenhams, Bloomingdale’s, and Marks & Spencer. Design Team Architectural Design / Lead Consultant: DP Architects Pte Ltd Civil / Structural Design: Meinhardt Singapore Pte Ltd MEP Design: Meinhardt Singapore Pte Ltd Facade Specialist: Meinhardt Facade Technology (S) Pte Ltd Lighting Design: Project Lighting Design Pictures 3 January 2008 View of Dubai Mall on 27 November External links • • • • • Dubai Mall video Google Earth overlay for Dubai mall The Dubai Mall - Official website The Dubai Mall, Profile Dubai Mall Information Construction work on 28 May 2006 Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Mall" Categories: Shopping centers established in 2008, Shopping malls in Dubai 3 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dubai Mall This page was last modified on 19 May 2009, at 06:41 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) 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