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Dubai's Ibn Battuta Gate now finished
21/1/10

Construction has finished in Dubai on Ibn Battuta Gate, a mixed-use scheme featuring a huge almost-circular arch-shaped entrance and a robotic car park with a capacity for 765 vehicles.

Drivers leave their vehicles at an entry station where they are picked up by computerised lifts that place them in a shelving system. To collect their car they wait at a pick up point while the machine retrieves it in under 160 seconds.

The 11-storey, 400,000 sq ft scheme features offices, luxury apartments and a five star hotel.

The 396-room hotel will be handed over to owner Seven Tides at the end of January for the final fitting out with an anticipated opening by the Swiss hotel group Moevenpick Hotels & Resorts in May.