Architects Bosse and Wallisser of LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture Asia Pacific) just unveiled at the Cityscape property fair in Dubai Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower. The 59-storey skyscraper will has been built in collaboration with former Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher, and is described as “branded architecture’s next step”. Construction should start in 2009 and should end around June 2011.  

The world's largest LED screen is being constructed  by Tameer Holding in in Dubai's Majan district of Dubailand. The enormous screen will be on one of the facades of a commercial office building named The Podium. It will be 33 stories high and be readable from up to a mile (1.5km) away. However, the biggest challenge will be to the flow of natural light inside the office space, as promised. Once again, Dubai will have a "world's biggest..." construction. Now, what can they still build that they don't already have?

Here are some images that show how Palm Jumeirah currently looks like.

Dubai developers Nakheel just announced they are going to build a one kilometre high (3,280 feet) tower, the Nakheel Tower, beating the city state's own world record (with the the yet to be completed Burj Dubai, which reached a height of 688 metres (2,257 feet) last month and is still growing). The tower will be built in a whole new town that will cover 270 hectares. It is estimated the entire project will cost $95bn, of which $38.12bn will be for the tower alone. Nakheel has already built about $60bn worth of projects in Dubai. Nakheel Tower will have four individual towers within a single structure, which is very rare.

The engineers from dutch Royal Haskoning have won the design competition for a 450m bridge in Dubai. Nakheel, the developer, wants them to create a motorway bridge to connect Jebel Ali (Dubai’s largest Palm Island) to the mainland. Two 135m high pylons and 72 stay cables will support the eight lane bridge, that will also have pavements for pedestrians and cyclists. The bridge will be 50m wide and will have a free span of 225m.

It will be in what used to be a desert that we will see the largest fountain in the world. Of course, this $218 million project had to be in Dubai. Once again, Emaar Properties is responsible for the project. With its integral light and sound show, it is expected to become one of the city’s major tourist attractions (it should draw more than 10 million visitors per year!). The water will have 1'000 different expressions accompanied by music. 22'000 gallons of water will be pumped, and 6'600 lights and 50 color projectors will also be needed. The display will be 275 meters long, and the water will be shot 150 meters high.

The Burj Dubai that is currently under construction in Dubai and is already the world's tallest building (it will eventually stand 818m) has been held up. In March, Emaar Properties, the manager of the world's tallest tower block, had announced a four month delay but still said the tower would be completed before the en of 2008. However, they now say that work is behind schedule and will be delayed by another eight to nine months. You can imagine investors are probably not very happy.