If you happened to watch this weekend’s Formula 1 race set in Abu Dhabi, you may have seen a giant red structure with a huge Ferrari emblem on the roof.

It’s called Ferrari World Abu Dhabi and as you can guess, is an engineering and architectural masterpiece dedicated to the wondrous world of all things Ferrari.

Ferrari World is set to be the world’s largest indoor theme park and the first ever Ferrari theme park in the world when it opens in 2010.

Manchester City football clubowner Sheikh Mansour has added space travel to his diverse portfolio of businesses by buying 32 per cent of Virgin Galactic.

The deal, which was done through the sheikh’s company Aabar, puts the value of Virgin Galactic at $900 million even though it hasn’t begun to offer flights yet.

In return it will gain regional rights to host Virgin Galactic tourism and research flights, and is planning to build spaceport facilities in Abu Dhabi.

New York design firm Leeser Architecture have won a competition to design a hotel in the Zayed Bay district of Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Called the Helix for its spiraling floors, the hotel is located in the bay and sits partially over the water.

The building includes a glass-bottomed swimming pool on the roof, visible eight floors below, and a running track on the fifth floor.

T.T. Trunks is presenting the new Van Cleef and Arpels’ trunk at the Arts and Crafts exhibition at Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi.

The exhibition, which ends today, is part of the ‘French Season’ organised by the French Embassy.

The trunk has been specially designed and crafted for the launch of the perfume “Féerie”.

Falcon Aviation Services has received its first “Hélicoptère par Hermès” on Sunday at a ceremony held in Abu Dhabi.

Priced at $6 million, the EC135 helicopter is created by a collaboration between Eurocopter and Hermès, the French designer of luxury goods.

“This helicopter illustrates a fusion between design and technology, where every detail has been created for VIP and business travellers,” said Salem Al Kayoumi, FAS’s vice-chairman.

The Middle East have provided with comfortable air voyages for decades now. Starting with the brilliance in luxurious aviation experiences with Emirates, we have come to a point where a first class air traveler can have just about all his wishes fulfilled while in the air.

With more than six feet space for a passenger to stretch himself, sexy 23inch LCD monitors to feast their eyes, the power to charge their cell phones, media players and other gadgets via two USB points and a RCA socket, Etihad Airlines, the United Arab Emirates’ national airline, make a promising entry into the list of exotic fliers.

In addition Etihad Airways has been voted “airline with the best cabin staff” at this year’s Business Traveller Middle East awards, based on the opinions of thousands of readers of Business Traveller magazine. The Abu Dhabi based carrier also won for “airline with the best economy class.”

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