I did a day trip to Qatar today, a developing city but is still behind Abu Dhabi and Dubai but if you look closely to the image above you can see some nice architecture shapes. As I went for work, there was not much time to get downtown amongst these buildings, but went to a nice hotel for dinner that there is an image off...maybe next time will get closer up...

Bahrain in 1970 - The old Juffair and the gulf hotel which has doubled in size and and put a convention center next door. There was no bridge to Saudi Arabia either so they had to use boats to get of the island…















Bahrain in 2009 - This picture is taken from one of our sites on the 52 level, I have labeled some places of interest, but if you compare where the gulf hotel is to the picture below you can see how much land reclamation has happened on the island, and how small it must have been in the past and how much construction work has happened. Jaffair is below all the text and is where all the apratments have been developed.