The Amazing Buildings Of Dubai That Never Were

==In the credit bubble heyday, Dubai was home to one of the world's most absurd real estate bubbles. The filthy-rich Emirate has some monuments from the bubble, like the Burj Khalifa and Palm Jumeriah artificial islands. But more striking are the ambitious projects that failed.

Arabian Business recently profiled some of these imaginative and ambitious Dubai real estate projects that never opened.  

Here are some of Dubai's ill-fated construction projects:

The Nakheel Harbour and Tower

This tower would have dwarfed the Burj.  The $32 billion dollar project enjoyed a star-studded opening party, but construction has been halted as of December 2009.

The Palm Deira

Courtesy of Nakheel

Au contraire, one gigantic palm-shaped artificial island that really sticks it to mother nature is not enough! Nakheel, Dubai's state-sponsored developer planned another one several times the size of the Palm Jumeriah--half the size of Paris in fact. 

Trump International Hotel and Tower

Courtesy of Trump Dubai

Trump and Dubai are a match made in heaven.  This ambitious 62-story hotel was going to serve as an anchor to the existing Palm Jumeriah. According to Arabian Business, Nakheel's chairman reportedly announced in February that the $2.9 billion hotel will not be built and it will be replaced with a more pedestrian shopping mall.