Dubai: The Dubai government, which has built buildings with innovative architecture and modern engineering skills that are not found anywhere else in the world, including Burj Khalifa, Museum of the Future, Dubai Opera, is now going to build a new floating museum in the city of Dubai. Its name is Duma (D.U.M.A). It will be designed by renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando.
Yes. Although surprising, this is true. Dubai is planning to build a five-story museum that floats on the sea. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Ruler of Dubai, said this.
You may ask, how can a building made of cement and iron, and that too with five floors, stand on water? Do you know the answer to that…? They are Arabs. They are very wealthy, and moreover, they have the ambition to build buildings that are not found anywhere else in the world. For them, who have built an artificial island called Palm Jumeirah by filling it with sand in the sea and building a small city on it, building a floating museum is not a big deal. So, the UAE government has taken a big decision.
Rs 2,400 crore for the project?
Actually, neither the Dubai local government nor the UAE has announced how much it will cost to build this museum. However, recently, the UAE government said that it would build a new building on the Dubai coast at a cost of 300 million US dollars and a large renewable energy unit at a cost of 6 billion US dollars. There is speculation that this floating museum could be the $300 million project. If true, the cost of this project would be an estimated Rs. 2,400 crore.