How Dubai Built Burj Al Arab With These Machines

burj al arab, burj al arab construction, how burj al arab was built, It stands on nothing. No cliff. No natural island. No shallow bedrock to anchor the tower to. 321 m. Standing 280 m offshore, on ground that did not exist. In 1994, this was open water in the Arabian Gulf. No platform. No dry land. Nothing to build on. Before the concrete. Before the steel. Before the white sail became one of the most recognized shapes on Earth, the machines had to do something stranger first. They had to manufacture land. Barges. Pile rigs. Cranes. Pumps. Moving into open sea, building a construction site where there was none. The first machine didn't build a hotel. It built the ground the hotel would stand on. Dubai in the early 1990s was growing fast. Sheikh Mohammed wanted more than another building. He wanted one image. One shape people would know on sight - the way the world knows the Eiffel Tower, or the Sydney Opera House. Architect Tom Wright, working with Atkins, drew the idea in 1993. The sail of a traditional dhow, rising from the Gulf. Two wings spreading into a V, wrapped around a vast atrium. A sail needs open water beneath it. So the building would sit 280 m offshore, cut off from the beach by the sea itself, reachable only by a private causeway still years from existing. This wasn't just an unusual shape. It was an unusual site. No architect designs a 300-plus-metre tower expecting to build the ground it stands on first. But that was the brief. Sheikh Mohammed wanted the image. The engineers had to invent the site. Construction began July 8, 1994. Five years to December 1999. The drawing showed a sail. The engineers had nowhere to put it. In today's video, we look at How Dubai Built Burj Al Arab With This Machines… Keep watching to see burj al arab, burj al arab construction, how burj al arab was built, Also check out:    • Dubai's Palm Jumeirah | How Engineers Turn...   #TitansOfIndustry #ExtremeEngineering #burj al arab