The Galleries Plaza at Downtown Jebel Ali

Signature Shade Structures
Client
Limitless
Architects
Burt, Hill; Pei Partnership
Year
2007-2009
Status
Completed
Scale
38,000 m²
Location
Dubai, UAE
Region
Middle East North Africa

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The Target

A showcase urban plaza was created to serve multiple overlapping ‘day’ and ‘night’ uses planned from adjacent residential and commercial towers and larger 12-kilometer ‘new city’ development also feeding into the plaza.  Highlighting the features created were an outdoor ‘room’ of dense shade trees forming a signature armature across the plaza.  Numerous high-end water features, a giant LED screen and amphitheater were also created.  Located directly over an existing parking garage that was never intended to hold the weight of a plaza, a framework system of light-weight build-up material and hollow underground structures were key to supporting the proposed design.  Natural stone and large, mature trees were procured from abroad to raise the impact of the plaza.

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