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5/16/24, 3:03 PM Guide to Dubai's newly listed historical places, from a pineapple slide to a fish fountain
Terminal 1 at Dubai International Airport is included on the updated list of cultural landmarks in Dubai. AFP
The same can be said of Sheikh Rashid Tower, more familiar as the central building of Dubai World Trade
Centre. When it was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1979, it was the tallest building in the Middle East.
Other buildings speak of the modernisation of Dubai. The futurist main Dubai Municipality building owes its
distinct design to a Japanese firm, Pacific Consultants, and opened in 1979.
Dubai Land Department Building is more conventional in its architecture but the services it provides have been
pivotal to the government’s successful real estate strategy as the city has undergone massive expansion.
Dubai Courts is a judicial system established by Sheikh Rashid in the late 1950s. The complex, on the banks of
the creek, comprises three levels of courts, beginning with the civil court in 1970.
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