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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

Queen Elizabeth II visited the UAE in 1979 to open Dubai World Trade Centre. Photo: Ramesh Shulka

Towering achievements

The Dubai Petroleum headquarters has long been regarded as an architectural gem, designed by Victor
Bisharat, the celebrated Arab-American architect, who was born in Palestine and also helped to build Disneyland
in Anaheim, California. It opened in 1978 and was featured at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale.

The Emirates Post building in Al Karama, formerly known as the General Post Office, was one of the country’s
biggest buildings when it was constructed in the mid 1970s and was once the headquarters of Dubai's postal
service.

Five of the city’s hospitals have been selected. Al Maktoum is the oldest in the country, founded in 1951,
although building continued until 1971.

Al Baraha Hospital was opened on the Deira Corniche in 1966 in the presence of the then-Emir of Kuwait and
was renamed Al Kuwait Hospital in 2019.

Rashid Hospital is the second oldest major hospital, built in 1973 near the creek and still expanding. Dubai
Hospital, a 14-storey building in Deira built as a response to rapid population growth, admitted its first patient in
1983.

Originally called Al Wasl Hospital, Latifa Hospital specialises in care for women and children, first opening its
doors in 1986. It was renamed in in honour of the mother of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and

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