Deira Clocktower
Modernist clock tower from 1965, born from a royal gift and built by hand at Dubai's historic gateway.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Deira Clocktower traces it back to a wedding gift around 1961, when a clock bought in Manchester arrived in Dubai for Sheikh Rashid, who chose to display it publicly rather than keep it in a palace. You'll hear about Syrian architect Zaki Al Homsi and the thirty workers who hand-mixed the concrete, and how the tower rose at the junction where the road from the airport met the bridge into Bur Dubai. It also follows the tower through a 1980s rebuild and a 2008 change to its mechanism.
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