Updated: March 17, 2024

Will Dubai’s Artificial Islands ever be Finished?

Dubai’s Artificial Islands are one of the largest development projects in history, and were a key part of the City’s history. After being announced back in 2002, these projects were intended to completed in 2010. But all of this changed after the 2008 financial crisis, with only one of the islands being fully completed. Both The Palm Jebel and The World were permanently put on hold as a result of the slowing real estate market. Twenty years later, and these projects still sit completely abandoned, with reports stating that The World Islands have began sinking back into the Persian Gulf.