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Burj Al Arab Dubai Hotel was built on an artificial island.

Worldwide promotion paid so well for its engineer daring vision

Monterrey International Stadium engineer daring vision, besides providing the perfect location and being a union symbol; offers the amazing aspiration and world recognition to the Project, just as happened to the Burj Al Arab Dubai Hotel, Arab Emirates, which was built on an artificial island on the Persian Gulf.

Today Dubai with a population of 1.2 million is in the World 7th place as tourism attraction with a ratio of 6.1 million visitors a year. This is 5 times its population.

The new Monterrey International Stadium is based, in its structure, on the Mexico Vision 2030 Bridge which is over the Santa Catarina River. It has all the hydrological structures to be the safest in the city under any whether situation.

This visionary and daring construction joins the group of projects worldwide known as engineer landmarks such as; the Panama Channel, Hong Kong Airport, or The Mancha Channel Euro tunnel.

 

Panama Channel

Hong Kong Airport

Euro tunnel

 

To build commercial centers over a bridge is not new. Ponte Vecchio, in Florence, built in 1345, has always had stores that last until today. One contemporary example is the magnificent Pavilion Bridge of architecture which won the Pritzker, Zaha Hadid, which is an exhibit pavilion built over the Ebro River for the Expo Zaragoza 2008 in Spain.

 

Ponte Vecchio, Florence.

Pavilion Bridge, Zaragoza, Spain.

Mexico Vision 2030 Bridge.

Burj Al Arab Hotel its an excelent example of what long term vision means