Architecture and Design of Downtown Dubai

Downtown Dubai Architecture & Urban Regeneration Walking Tour is one of our popular education field  trips.

Content highlights are:

• The tour begins from inside Dubai Mall and finds its way via Souk Al Bahar into Burj Plaza and onto Dubai Opera complex. 

• Along with elements of design considerations that went into building Downtown Dubai, this tour showcases us architectural genius of Burj Khalifa, Walk of Stars, Dubai Fountain, and the dhow-shaped Opera building. 

• This tour delves into the UAE cultural symbolism in modern construction and ties together Dubai’s fantastic growth story.

•  This tour will focus on role of high SRI Index glass panels, multi-use urban design, windowpane precipitation harvesting and self-sustaining neighborhood urban planning. 

It is a 2.5-hour tour. Students are given a Certificate of Participation at the end of the tour. Suggested time slot is 8:45AM to 11:15AM. 

No meals are included in the tour. The students have a short snack break in between where they can have their snack box. Students arrive and depart by schools buses organized by the school. 

• Tour Cost: AED 50 per student. All teachers and assistant teachers are complimentary.

We have been offering educational sightseeing tours to students for 15 years and over 50 schools in North America, England and the Middle East have been sending us their students year-on-year. Our guides specialize in dealing with young children and are fun and lively.  

Please be assured that the content of our tours is very rich, deep and delivered in pictures and stories for students to gain maximum out of the tours. I have attached some recent teacher reviews of our tour to this email from American School of Dubai, GEMS World, ICE School and Clarion School. 

For three years in a row, Dubai By Foot has won awards for its student fields trip from Dubai Culture Authority in Al Fahidi Historic District.