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Dubai Frame
The Dubai Frame (Arabic: برواز دبي) formerly known as "Al Berwaz Tower" is an observatory, museum, and monument in Zabeel Park, Dubai. It holds the record for the largest frame in the world. The building has a height of 150.24 meters and a width of 95.53 meters. The building mainly serves as an observatory, providing views of old Dubai in the north and newer parts in the south.

The project is a reflection of the quote by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum "Competition always makes you stronger and better. It is only feared by the weak" showing the confidence of the United Arab Emirates building whatever bigger and subjectively better than any other country

Design
The Dubai Frame is created out of glass, steel, aluminum, and reinforced concrete with designs of the logo of Expo 2020 embedded on the outer facade. The Dubai Frame used the 'golden rectangle' with the side ratios of 1:1.618. It is positioned in such a way that representative landmarks of modern Dubai can be seen on one side, while from the other side, visitors can also view older parts of the city. An observation deck spans the top of the frame, with glass-bottomed floors looking down almost 150 meters onto the building's lower span. This space serves as a symbolic bridge between past and present with the two towers connected by the glass bottomed top of the frame. The lower span contains a museum showing the history of the city and a video exhibit predicting the city's future. Using special effects the museum creates a very visually-compelling experience taking you from the nomadic fishing and pearl diving village of the past up to a projection of 50 years into the future.

Landscape design done by Architect Hoseein Shabani as freelance architect of MIRAK landscapes and irrigations.

The concept of combination of modern and traditional Dubai's Culture has implemented by architect.

Conception of the idea to completed construction was a very involved process with around 3000 expert architects, engineers, technicians and laborers involved from start to finish. '''This involvement was a necessity to counteract the natural forces such as strong winds and calculate the stresses that the building would be under and figure out the processes used by construction. To counteract the wind the cladding of the frame is porous to serve as a damper to reduce the impact of the wind.'''