Burj Dubai - Nerve centre

The Burj Dubai, currently being constructed alongside Shaikh Zayed Road, will be the tallest building in the world when it is completed in 2008. There will be more than 160 floors to the Emaar building, which is likely to reach a height of more than 700 metres.

Lower down the building will house and exclusive Armani Hotel, while further up will be hundreds of exclusive apartments and prestigious offices. There will also be high-class restaurants and gyms inside the building. The Burj Dubai Downtown complex which will include Dubai Mall - the largest shopping mall in the world, sitting alongside the massed skyscrapers of Dubai's most impressive road. Shaikh Zayed Road was a part of more than 21 road projects that started in 1984. It runs through Dubai up to the border of Abu Dhabi. Classified as a highway, it has 13 interchanges to ease traffic flow. More than 200,000 vehicles use the road daily on some days of the year.

The centerpiece of the Burj Dubai Downtown development is the Burj Dubai's itself, which is now dozens of storey high and will eventually be the world's tallest building, dwarfing anything else in Dubai. Once completed, the Burj Dubai Downtown development will contain tens of thousands of residences and will be a city within a city alongside Shaikh Zayed Road.

Already opened across the road from the Burj Dubai Downtown development is the Al Murooj complex, which includes a five star hotel as well as luxury apartments.