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Dubai's wildly ambitious 'The World' islands could finally be coming to life
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Nearly a decade since Dubai's man-made archipelago "The World" — a 300-island chain laid out in the shape of the Earth's continents — stalled in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, a six-island cluster could bring the project back to life.
"The Heart of Europe" is an ambitious development that will be home to dozens of luxury resorts and lavish restaurants, surrounded by half-submerged, half-skylit floating homes called "floating seahorses." Although the project was slow to get started when first announced in 2009, it appears to have speeded up recently.
"We have invested millions of dollars in The Heart of Europe and we have made a commitment to our investors and clients," Josef Kleindienst, CEO of the development firm Kleindienst Group, tells Tech Insider.
Notably, more than 60 floating seahorses were sold in 2015, even before the first structure has touched down in the Persian Gulf, according to Kleindienst Group.
Impressive in its own right, The Heart of Europe is something of a miracle given the history of The World — which by all accounts should have flatlined years ago.
Kleindienst GroupThe Heart of Europe — some day.
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Dubai's wildly ambitious 'The World' islands could finally be coming to life
Dubai's wildly ambitious 'The World' islands could finally be coming to life
Nearly a decade since Dubai's man-made archipelago "The World" — a 300-island chain laid out in the shape of the Earth's continents — stalled in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, a six-island cluster could bring the project back to life.
"The Heart of Europe" is an ambitious development that will be home to dozens of luxury resorts and lavish restaurants, surrounded by half-submerged, half-skylit floating homes called "floating seahorses." Although the project was slow to get started when first announced in 2009, it appears to have speeded up recently.
"We have invested millions of dollars in The Heart of Europe and we have made a commitment to our investors and clients," Josef Kleindienst, CEO of the development firm Kleindienst Group, tells Tech Insider.
Notably, more than 60 floating seahorses were sold in 2015, even before the first structure has touched down in the Persian Gulf, according to Kleindienst Group.
Impressive in its own right, The Heart of Europe is something of a miracle given the history of The World — which by all accounts should have flatlined years ago.
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Dubai's wildly ambitious 'The World' islands could finally be coming to life
