Air located in Dubai.

空位於迪拜。

You think it's skyline would have looked like this long before 1979.

你覺得1979年之前，它的天際線早就是這個樣子了。

But in that year on Lee, a single 39 story building stood in Dubai, and some people wondered why it was there.

但在當年的李上，一棟39層的單體建築矗立在迪拜，有人好奇它為什麼會在那裡。

There are over 900 towers in Dubai, and every single one of them has been built in the last 40 years.

迪拜有900多座大廈，每一座大廈都是在過去40年中建成的。

Before that, Dubai looked like this.

在此之前，迪拜是這樣的。

Then, in 1979 this a 39 story building in the middle of the Arabian desert.

然後，在1979年，這棟39層的建築在阿拉伯沙漠的中央。

This is the Dubai World Trade Center was the tallest building between Mumbai and Athens, including the whole of the Arab world.

這是迪拜世界貿易中心是孟買和雅典之間的最高建築，包括整個阿拉伯世界。

So that made an impact.

所以這就產生了影響。

That's guide Gilmar, the trade centers first employee, general manager and director.

這就是導購吉爾瑪，貿易中心的第一位員工、總經理和總監。

The trade center stood alone in the desert.

貿易中心孤零零地矗立在沙漠中。

People were extremely puzzled why, ah, high rise building would be put up in open land.

人們非常不解，為什麼啊，會在空地上建起高樓大廈。

I think it's probably a world first.

我想這可能是世界上第一次。

It even got a visit from Queen Elizabeth on opening day.

開幕當天，甚至有伊麗莎白女王來訪。

She arrived by Car Waas, introduced to everybody before going on into the building, including May, of course.

她是由車華斯來的，介紹給大家後才進樓的，當然也包括梅。

And of course we flew the royal standard, which I think is quite unusual.

當然，我們飛的是皇家標準，我想這是很不尋常的。

That's Gordon healed.

那是戈登痊癒了。

He designed and supervised the trade center, and here he is with the queen at the inauguration, along with lead architect John Harris.

他設計並監督了貿易中心，這裡是他和女王一起參加落成典禮，還有首席建築師約翰-哈里斯。

It may divide, didn't it?

它可能會分裂，不是嗎？

What you see now is this enormous metropolis of tall buildings on Did it was the trade center that said, It'll going It may seem obvious now build a business center in one of the wealthiest nations on the planet and you'll attract global companies.

你現在看到的是這個高樓林立的巨大都市，難道是貿易中心說的，它會去這可能看起來很明顯，現在在地球上最富有的國家之一建立一個商業中心，你會吸引全球公司。

But in 19 seventies to buy this was something new next to Gordon in this picture is she a rush?

但在1970年代買這是新的東西旁邊的戈登在這張照片上她是一個急？

Had been Seidel Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and the prime minister of the newly formed United Arab Emirates.

曾任迪拜統治者、新成立的阿拉伯聯合酋長國總理塞德爾-馬克圖姆。

It was his idea to build the skyscraper trade center in the first place.

當初建造摩天貿易中心就是他的主意。

For centuries, Dubai's main industry was pearl harvesting.

幾個世紀以來，迪拜的主要產業是採珍珠。

But in the 19 thirties, the pearl industry collapsed due to the Great Depression and the invention of the synthetic pearl.

但在30年代，由於經濟大蕭條和人工合成珍珠的發明，珍珠產業崩潰了。

But a few decades later, Dubai had another largely untapped resource, waiting to flow into the market in 1966 to buy found oil, and estimates show that the population grew by 1000% over the next 40 years.

但幾十年後，迪拜還有一個基本沒有開發的資源，1966年等待流入市場購買發現的石油，據估計，在接下來的40年裡，人口增長了1000%。

By 1991 black gold accounted for around 50% of Dubai's GDP, creating a rich environment for new business.

到1991年，黑金佔迪拜GDP的50%左右，為新的商業創造了豐富的環境。

Chirac used the proceeds of Dubai's oil to develop the city's infrastructure, including the trade center.

希拉剋用迪拜石油的收益來發展城市的基礎設施，包括貿易中心。

What he really wanted to do is to make a statement that the Dubai ciders in business and also a signal toe Abba, Dubbie, that you know we are your rivals Andi Way are really coming after you.

他真正想做的是發表聲明，迪拜的蘋果酒在商業上，也是對阿巴、杜比的一個信號，你知道我們是你的競爭對手安迪威真的要來找你了。

Building the first skyscraper in a nation isn't all straightforward, though.

不過，建造全國第一座摩天大樓並不是一帆風順的。

For one, the sand in the desert wasn't right for the cement.

一是沙漠裡的沙子不適合水泥。

We actually had to use sand from the beach in its in its place, which seems a rather strange thing to have to do in the desert.

我們居然要用沙灘上的沙子來代替它，這在沙漠中似乎是一件相當奇怪的事情。

As nobody had seen such a tall building before, rumors were quick to spread.

由於之前沒有人見過這麼高的建築，所以傳言很快就傳開了。

There were lines of lampposts not far away, which which we're not quite vertical on.

不遠處有一排排的燈柱，我們不是很垂直的燈柱。

I think that's what started the rumor that the tower was actually leaning.

我想，這才是大廈真正傾斜的傳聞的起因。

And if that wasn't enough, when they reached the 10th floor of the trade center, Sheikh Rashid decided he wanted it taller, so demanded extra floors to be put on.

如果這還不夠的話，當他們到達貿易中心的10層時，謝赫-拉希德決定要讓它更高，所以要求加蓋樓層。

Originally it was designed with 33 then they increased it to 39.

本來設計的是33，後來他們增加到39。

Today, the 1.3 million square foot tower is home to 500 events a year, attracting three million people from 160 countries.

如今，這座130萬平方英尺的大廈每年舉辦500場活動，吸引了來自160個國家的300萬人。

I think that the elements of skepticism about why is so much money being spent on this immense tower on the surrounding buildings quickly evaporated because the niche that we were able to exploit was to establish it on established Dubai as the premier business address in the Middle East mhm.

我認為，關於為什麼要花這麼多錢在這個巨大的大廈上週圍的建築上的懷疑元素很快就蒸發了，因為我們能夠利用的利基是將它建立在建立迪拜作為中東地區首要的商業地址上，嗯。