Palm Jumeirah began construction in June 2001, is the smallest artificial palm islands, of three artificial palm islands and a series of projects being built. However, in 2007, the Palm Jumeirah is the title as the largest man-made island in the world. Palm Jumeirah is measuring 5 kilometers long and 5 kilometers wide to make the total number of Dubai’s coastline or shoreline to 560 kilometers. In addition, the material used to make the Palm Jumeirah can be equivalent to making a half meter thick wall with a height of 2 meters in length is able to circle the earth three times.
Known as the island’s palm resembles the shape of a palm tree that consists of:
Palm Trunk
In the palm trunk length 2 kilometers, stands 20 building which was a hotel and apartments where between each building there is a swimming pool and a gym, with the bottom of the trunk is the main gate or the gate. Each of these buildings has the same height. Buildings that lined the right side would have direct access to the beach while those on the left must be crossing the road prior to heading to the beach.
While in the heart of palm is being built Nakheel Mall, a large mall that will be an area of 418,000 square meters comprising five floors of retail with more than 100,000 square meters for outlets, 3 basements for parking that can accommodate 4,000 vehicles and also there are 200 outlets there, 2 large department store, cinema, medical center, fitness complex, also roof plaza and restaurants. In this mall there will also be 200-meter-high observation tower, where visitors can see Palm as a whole. Initially in 2005 in the heart of this palm will be built Trump Tower but his contract is canceled as well as the development plan Village Center is suspended and replaced by the construction of this Nkheel Mall.
Besides Nakheel mall will be built Palm Tower, which is a five-star hotel. The hotel later there are 504 luxury residences, and on the first floor there are 18 290 hotel rooms. A rooftop restaurant with a swimming pool will be added to the satisfaction of visitors.
Palm Frond
Has a total of 17 crowns of leaves which stands villa-lined residential row in 16 crown leaves. There are two types of villas IE “Garden Homes” are small with 3-5 bedrooms and “Signature Villas” which has 5-7 bedrooms. The villa prices vary depending on the code of letters and numbers. The higher the letters and numbers listed, the price of the villa will be more expensive. Nevertheless, the villas are already sold in a short time.
Crescent
This crescent serves as a breakwater wall made of 94 million cubic meters of sand and large stones of more than 7,000,000 tons, of which every stone is placed one by one using a winch and its location is marked by divers and were given coordinates in accordance with the Global positioning System. The breakwater has a length of 11 kilometers and is the only curved breakwater ever.
Here stood a couple of swanky hotels and some tourist destinations worldwide, including Atlantis, which brings its Aquaventure and Dolphin Bay. Besides Atlantis, several other hotels are Jumeirah Al Fattan Palm Resort, The Grandeur Residences, Kempinski Hotel Emerald Palace Dubai, Kingdom of Sheba, The Palm, Royal Amwaj, The Taj Exotica Resort and Spa, Royal Amwaj.