The Dubai Mall (Arabic: دبي مول) is the
world's largest shopping mall based on total area and fourth largest
by gross leasable area. Located in Dubai, (U.A.E),
it is part of the 20-billion-dollar Downtown complex, and includes 1,200 shops. Access to the mall is provided via
Doha Street, rebuilt as a double-decker road in April 2009.
Twice delayed, Dubai
Mall opened on 8 May 2009, with about 635 retailers, marking the world's largest-ever mall opening in retail history.
However it is not the largest in gross
leasable space, and is surpassed in that category by several
malls including the New South China Mall, which is
the world's largest, Golden Resources Mall,SM City North Edsa, and SM Mall of Asia.
Over 13 million square foot (equivalent in
size to more than 50 football fields), the Dubai Mall has
a total internal floor area of5.9 million square feet (55 ha) and
leasable space of 3.77 million square feet (35 ha), about the same as
the West
Edmonton Mall.
It also has a 250-room luxury hotel,
22 cinema screens plus 120 restaurants and cafes. The Mall has over
14,000 parking spaces across 3 car parks, with valet services and a car
locator ticketing system. The mall has won five awards – two awards at the
Retail Future Project Awards at Mapic, Cannes, in
2004, for Best Retail Development Scheme (Large) and Best
Use of Lighting in a Retail Environment and the Dubai Mall brochure collected
three awards at the Summit Creative Awards 2005 in Portland, Oregon – the Gold award for Best Art
Direction / Graphic Design, Silver award for Best 4-colour B2B
Brochure, and a Judges Special Recognition award.
Dubai
Aquarium and Underwater Zoo
The Mall's Dubai Aquarium and
Discovery Centre, developed and operated by Oceanis Australia Group, having one
of the world's largest Acrylic Panel"
(32.88 m wide × 8.3 m high × 750 mm thick and weighing
245,614 kg). The acrylic viewing panel is larger than Japan's Okinawa Churaumi
Aquarium (22.5 m
wide × 8.2 m high and 600 mm thick), smaller than Singapore's S.E.A Aquarium (36 m wide × 8.3 m high) and China's Chime-Long Ocean
Kingdom (39.6 m
wide × 8.3 m high). Its 750 mm thick acrylic viewing panel can
withstand pressure of 10 million litres of water used in the aquarium, but
its transparency gives visitors clear views of over 33,000 marine animals on
display. In February 2010, a leak in the aquarium caused a partial
evacuation and brief shutdown of a portion of the mall.
The Mall adopted an International Standard of
Ethics and Animal Welfare Policy in its development and operation.
Dubai
Ice Rink
The Mall's Dubai Ice Rink multi-purpose venue,
uses refrigeration plant technology by developing 1.5 inches
(38 mm) of ice bed, 2 times the thickness of an NHL ice rink for
Olympic-sized attraction. Dubai Ice Rink can host a capacity of up to
2,000 guests, when converted into a multi-functional hall with a multimedia system
including a 20 m × 10 m LED screen.
SEGA
Republic
SEGA Republic, a 76,000 sq ft
(7,100 m2) indoor theme park, was opened on 21 August 2009 where visitors
can enjoy over 150 amusement games; It is a park that is mainly dedicated to SEGA's
video game icon Sonic the
Hedgehog.
Shops
The Dubai Mall contains more than 1,200 shops.
In October 2009 it was reported that the
world's largest candy store had opened in Dubai Mall.
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Largest mall in the world with total area 1,124,000 m².
- Worlds fifteenth largest mall with Gross Leasable Area (GLA) 350,000 m².
- World’s largest acrylic panel (Aquarium) inside Dubai Mall, which is (32.88 m wide × 8.3 m high × 750 mm thick and weighing 245 tons).
- The world’s largest sweet shop, "Candylicious", spanning over 10,000 sq ft (930 m2) inside Dubai Mall.
- Dubai Mall records more than 5 million visitors in the month of March 2010 during the one-month Dubai Shopping Festival, setting an all-time record in visitor footfall
- Dubai Mall was named the best shopping experience on 29 April 2010 by Grazia Style Awards
- Salsabila Puti Dalesa & Audrey Fayeza Agatha
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