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Dubai International Financial Centre

Downtown Dubai


Dubai’s stock exchange and leading international financial institutions are housed in a complex of six buildings surrounding an impressive central 80m-high triumphal arch called The Gate. An intriguing architectural landmark designed by the American firm Gensler Associates, it sits on an axis with the twin Emirates Towers and the World Trade Centre, effectively framing these two landmarks.

Transportation

  • metro: Emirates Towers

Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Downtown Dubai attractions

1. Empty Quarter

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It's always worth stopping by this top-notch gallery, which is the only one in the UAE focused entirely on fine-art photography. While providing a…

2. Opera Gallery

0.11 MILES

More an art showroom than a classically curated gallery, Opera caters to collectors of artistic heavyweights in genres as varied as pop art, calligraphy…

3. Tabari Artspace

0.11 MILES

Don't be deceived by the relatively small gallery space here; the emphasis is firmly on quality rather than quantity. This is one of the pioneering…

4. Cuadro

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In a fabulous space taking up the entire ground floor of Gate Village’s Building 10, this highly regarded gallery shines the spotlight on midcareer and…

5. Gate Village

0.14 MILES

Two wooden bridges link the massive Dubai International Finance Centre to Gate Village, a modernist cluster of 10 midrise stone-clad towers built around…

6. Emirates Towers

0.25 MILES

Although neither the tallest nor the newest skyscrapers in Dubai, the twin, triangular towers coated with silver-coated aluminium panels and topped with…

7. World Trade Centre

1.02 MILES

Compared to its cloud-touching cousins, the 149m-high World Trade Centre seems small today, but when completed in 1979 was actually Dubai's first…

8. Al Khazzan Park

1.07 MILES

One of Dubai's oldest parks, pocket-sized Al Khazzan has been given a total reboot and is now entirely solar-powered, giving it the right to the title to…

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