Dubai Marina
First published in 2016
Some 15 years ago this place was nothing but a desert. Today Dubai Marina is a district with some 100,000 inhabitants and an area where people meet for shopping, eating, or just hanging around.
Dubai Marina is built along a 3 km long, man-made waterway bringing the water of the Persian Gulf into the city. If the weather is fine, you can spend quite some time walking along the public walkways or you take one of the dhows for a cruise through the canal and along the coast.
Part of Dubai Marina is the so-called “Tallest Block in the World” a collection of skyscrapers right next to each other. What sounds like a massive boring collection of concrete is indeed an interesting ensemble of well-designed houses. The most interesting one is most probably the Cayan Tower (formerly Infinity Tower), a 73 story skyscraper that’s twisted by 90 degrees.
