Dubai World Trade Centre

The World Trade Centre in Dubai is a well-known in the Middle East conference and business center, whose best known part is a 39 - story skyscraper. Apart from the actual tower in which mainly the offices belong to the World Trade Centre and several outbuildings that house a convention center for up to 6,500 people and seven exhibition halls. It is a member of the World Trade Centers Association ( WTCA ) in New York to the global network of about 300 WTC in 100 countries.

Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum had the building built in the late 1970s and consecrated it in 1979. At that time it was with 149 meters height ( including top 184 meters), the tallest building in the Middle East. In that time still relatively sleepy Dubai, the project was considered bold and daring, since most observers, there was no need for the set up in the desert sand in the middle building. The critics, however, were taught better, because the project was a success and soon the tower was widely seen as a symbol of the economic growth of the region, according to some it has even justified it. Therefore, it adorns the 100 Dirham banknote.

In 1986, the 27th Chess Olympiad took place in the Congress Hall of the World Trade Center.

That the former Trade Centre Road was renamed in Sheikh Zayed Road, is a symbol of the declining importance of the World Trade Centre: Today the Tower of numerous still higher buildings is surrounded and has lost its symbolic power. Therefore, there are also considerations in the context of an extension of the complex already decided to demolish the main tower again. The adjoining hotel building was demolished in April 2005.