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Armada Towers
Armada Towers ( ar, أبراج أرمادا) is a complex of three skyscrapers in Jumeirah Lake Towers (JLT) Dubai Multi Commodities Centre Free Zone being built is opposite to the Dubai Marina and next to the Emirates Golf Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is a mixed purpose community with both residential, hotel, hospital and commercial units. General Armada Towers is one of Armada Group projects in the UAE. The construction contract was awarded to CSHK and the total cost of the project estimated to be over AED 1 Billion (US$300 Million). The construction began in early 2005 and was completed in 2009. The Towers was designed by Adnan Saffarini. Armada Tower 1 Located in Cluster P, plot 1. Armada Tower 1 has 36 floors and stand at . Armada Tower 2 Located in Cluster P, plot 2. Armada Tower 2 is the taller of the three, standing at with 40 floors. which is mixed commercial building with international companies/organizations running their regional operations such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dubai
Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates.The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa. D Long, B Reich. p.157 Established in the 18th century as a small fishing village, the city grew rapidly in the early 21st century with a focus on tourism and luxury, having the second most five-star hotels in the world, and the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, which is tall. In the eastern Arabian Peninsula on the coast of the Persian Gulf, it is also a major global transport hub for passengers and cargo. Oil revenue helped accelerate the development of the city, which was already a major mercantile hub. A centre for regional and international trade since the early 20th century, Dubai's economy relies on revenues from trade, tourism, aviation, real estate, and financial services. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula and shares borders with Oman and Saudi Arabia, while having maritime borders in the Persian Gulf with Qatar and Iran. Abu Dhabi is the nation's capital, while Dubai, the most populous city, is an international hub. The United Arab Emirates is an elective monarchy formed from a federation of seven emirates, consisting of Abu Dhabi (the capital), Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain. Each emirate is governed by an emir and together the emirs form the Federal Supreme Council. The members of the Federal Supreme Council elect a president and vice president from among their members. In practice, the emir of Abu Dhabi serves as president while the ruler of Dubai is vice pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Architecture
Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural movement or architectural style based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete; the idea that form should follow function ( functionalism); an embrace of minimalism; and a rejection of ornament. It emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II until the 1980s, when it was gradually replaced as the principal style for institutional and corporate buildings by postmodern architecture. Origins File:Crystal Palace.PNG, The Crystal Palace (1851) was one of the first buildings to have cast plate glass windows supported by a cast-iron frame File:Maison François Coignet 2.jpg, The first house built of reinforced concrete, designed by François Coignet (1853) in Saint-Denis near Paris File:Home Insurance Building.JPG, The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, by William Le Baron Jenney (1884) File:Const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Rahif Hakmi
Mohammed Rahif Hakmi ( ar, محمد رهيف حاكمي) is the founder and chairman of Armada Group, a UAE-based conglomerate. Biography Mohammed Rahif Hakmi is the founder and chairman of Armada Group and has been licensed by Dubai Land Department (RERA - Real Estate Regulatory Agency) as Developer back in 2008. Hakmi holds a degree in Civil Engineering, M.Phil. and a PhD in Structural Engineering from the University of Salford, United Kingdom. In 1989 he was awarded a Ph.D for his research into the Local Buckling of Sandwich Panels from the University of Salford in Manchester, England. He was subsequently had been employed by the University of Salford where he conducted a series of research into numerical and experimental behaviour of materials, fire and blast of Composite materials. Hakmi developed a design theory, one of his formula has been recommended by the CIB Working Commission W056 Sandwich Panels, ECCS/CIB Joint Committee to be used in codes of practice and has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skyscrapers
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-rise buildings. Historically, the term first referred to buildings with between 10 and 20 stories when these types of buildings began to be constructed in the 1880s. Skyscrapers may host offices, hotels, residential spaces, and retail spaces. One common feature of skyscrapers is having a steel frame that supports curtain walls. These curtain walls either bear on the framework below or are suspended from the framework above, rather than resting on load-bearing walls of conventional construction. Some early skyscrapers have a steel frame that enables the construction of load-bearing walls taller than of those made of reinforced concrete. Modern skyscrapers' walls are not load-bearing, and most skyscrapers are characterised by large surface ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jumeirah Lake Towers
The Jumeirah Lakes Towers (JLT) ( ar, أبراج بحيرات الجميرا) is a large development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates which consists of 80 towers being constructed along the edges of three artificial lakes (Lake Almas West, Lake Almas East, JLT Lake) as well as the JLT Embankment of eight towers facing Jumeirah Islands. Initially JLT had four lakes (Lake Almas West, Lake Almas East, Lake Elucio, Lake Allure), in late 2012 developer (DMCC) announced that lake Elucio would be drained and park would be created instead. Subsequently, Lake Allure has been renamed to JLT Lake. The total area covered by the lakes, waterways and landscaping will be . The towers will range from having 35 floors to having 45, except for the centerpiece (Almas Tower), which is 66 floors. The tallest tower and the centerpiece of the entire complex is Almas Tower which is situated on its own island between Lake Almas West and Lake Almas East. The completion of Saba Tower in December 2006 marked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dubai Multi Commodities Centre
Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) is the UAE's largest free-trade zone that is located in the Jumeirah Lake Towers district of Dubai. Created in 2002, it serves as a commodities exchange that deals in four main sectors: precious commodities (e.g., gold, diamonds); energy; steel and metals and agricultural commodities (e.g., tea, cotton). In August 2020, the Investment Corporation of Dubai, a sovereign wealth fund, became the parent company of the autonomous DMCC as part of a major restructuring. History On the 1st of May 2002, then-Crown Prince of Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum issued directing the establishment of the free zone and the objective of the freezone to be a center of commodities trading. Further regulations were issued in which clarified the organisation of the freezone as its own independent authority and exempted all companies operating in the free zone of all forms of taxes and customs charges, and noted that companies and entities within the fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armada Group
Armada Holdings/Armada Group ( ar, ارمادا القابضة) as one of the leading United Arab Emirates conglomerates with more than 20 active companies having diversified interests in different countries spanning across healthcare, hospitality, real estate investment property development, as well as construction. General The construction company Admiral Contracting (previously Omran Contracting) was founded in 1974 by Mohammed Al-omran a leading Emiratee businessman as one of the early construction company in the UAE and was acquired by Mohammed Rahif Hakmi in 2001. Dr Hakmi expanded the business which has become one of the major enterprise worldwide investing in different sectors portfolios which include Real Estate Development, Information Technology, Marine, Health Care and Hospitality. The company has ongoing projects in Europe, Turkey, Comoros and the Middle East. Companies * Armada Property Services * Admiral General Contracting * Armada Hospital * Armada Medic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aramco
Saudi Aramco ( ar, أرامكو السعودية '), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company) or simply Aramco, is a Saudi Arabian public petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran. , it is one of the largest companies in the world by revenue. Saudi Aramco has both the world's second-largest proven crude oil reserves, at more than , and largest daily oil production of all oil-producing companies. It is the single greatest contributor to global carbon emissions of any company in the world since 1965. On 11 May 2022, Saudi Aramco became the largest (most valuable) company in the world by market cap, surpassing Apple Inc. Saudi Aramco operates the world's largest single hydrocarbon network, the Master Gas System. In 2013 crude oil production total was , and it manages over one hundred oil and gas fields in Saudi Arabia, including 288.4 trillion standard cubic feet (scf) of natural gas reserves. Saudi Aramco operates the Ghawar Field ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Petersburg State University Of Economics And Finance
Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance (''Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет экономики и финансов'') was a public university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was established in 1930 as ''Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics'' (''Ленинградский финансово-экономический институт''; hence the colloquial name ''Финэк'' (Finec)). In 2012, it united with Saint Petersburg State University of Service and Economics and Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics to create Saint Petersburg State University of Economics. The campus of the University occupies the buildings of the former Assignation Bank, which were designed by the Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi. History Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics (LFEI) was created on the basis of the restructured economic faculty of Saint Petersburg Politechnical Ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armada Pharmacy
Armada is the Spanish and Portuguese word for naval fleet, which also adopted into English, Malay and Indonesian for the same meaning, or an adjective meaning 'armed'; Armáda () is the Czech and Slovak word for armed forces. Armada may also refer to: Military Explorations and military campaigns * Portuguese India Armadas (''armadas da Índia''), fleets of ships dispatched from Portugal to India, following the sea route opened up by Vasco da Gama in 1497–1499 * 2nd Portuguese India Armada (Cabral, 1500) * 3rd Portuguese India Armada (Nova, 1501) * 4th Portuguese India Armada (Gama, 1502) * 5th Portuguese India Armada (Albuquerque, 1503) * 6th Portuguese India Armada (Albergaria, 1504) * 7th Portuguese India Armada (Almeida, 1505) Military campaigns * Spanish Armada or Great Armada, an unsuccessfully attempted invasion of England by Spain in 1588 * English Armada or Counter Armada, an unsuccessful English naval campaign in 1589 aimed at capturing Lisbon and other coastal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Tallest Buildings In Dubai
Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates, is home to many extremely tall modern high-rises, 108 of which stand taller than . The tallest building in Dubai is the Burj Khalifa, which rises and contains 163 floors. The tower has stood as both the List of tallest buildings in the world, tallest building in the world and the List of tallest buildings and structures in the world, tallest man-made structure of any kind in the world since its completion in January 2010. The second-tallest building in Dubai is the Marina 101, which also stands as the world's fourth tallest residential skyscraper. The skyscrapers of Dubai are, for the most part, clustered in three different locations. The land along E 11 (UAE), E 11 Road was the first to develop, followed by the Dubai Marina neighborhood and the Business Bay district. Overall, Dubai has 18 completed and Topping out, topped-out buildings that rise at least in height, which is more than any other city in the world. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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