Singapore team visits Dubai mall

DUBAI — Goh Chok Tong, Senior Minister and former prime minister of Singapore recently visited The Dubai Mall Leasing Centre and commended Emaar Properties for its vision. The architects for Dubai Mall is Singapore-based DP Architects.

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Published: Thu 19 May 2005, 10:18 AM

Last updated: Thu 2 Apr 2015, 5:09 PM

Goh Chok Tong, who was accompanied by members of the Singaporean delegation, was also briefed on the progress of the world's largest shopping mall as well as on the region's largest urban development, the Burj Dubai District that includes the world's tallest tower — the Burj Dubai.

Ibrahim Al Hashemi Emaar's executive director, Retail and Francis Lee of DP Architects led the former prime minister through the leasing centre which houses a scaled model of the entire mall.

The Dubai Mall is the world's largest mall at over twelve million square feet of shopping and is just one element of the Burj Dubai Development, which is going to drive the downtown lifestyle in Dubai.

The project that also includes The Residences, an exclusive upscale series of high-rise apartment towers, an Office Park, The Old Town, a low-rise traditional residences community inspired by the stylist antiquity of Arabian architecture and The Burj Dubai Boulevard, a 3.5 km stretch that binds the entire district and gives it an international ambience, besides man-made lakes and landscaped parks.



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