If you like this: 20 pictures that show how much Dubai has changed from the 1950s to today But eventually the stylised tree design was chosen. The island has the shape of a palm with a trunk, a crown ...

Perhaps no other project in the budding city more epitomizes this quest for absurd grandeur than the Palm Islands, an archipelago of artificial islands that extend off the Dubai coastline like the ...

The development is part of the larger Palm Jebel Ali project, which spans 13.4 kilometres across seven islands. The project marks a significant expansion of Dubai’s coastline, adding more than 90 ...