Ain Dubai
World-record observation wheel on Bluewaters Island with panoramic views of Dubai's skyline.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Ain Dubai opens with an unexplained shutdown: for almost three years the world's largest observation wheel stood still, scaffolding crept up its axle, and rumors spread while the lights kept blazing every night regardless. It backtracks to the ground-breaking in May two thousand fifteen and the audacious engineering behind a wheel two hundred and fifty metres tall, from the tonnage of steel and cable to the earthquake standard it was built to survive. Listen for how engineers replaced the temporary scaffolding with a ring of pre-tensioned cables, one by one, as the wheel took shape.
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