Completed in 2000, when they were the tallest buildings in the Middle East and Europe — a record this city has since broken many times over, mostly against itself. Two triangular shafts of glass and steel: the taller one (Emirates Tower One, 355m) is offices, including government ones; the shorter (309m) is the Jumeirah Emirates Towers hotel.

They're joined at the base by The Boulevard, a retail and dining strip. For a while this was the picture of corporate Dubai, before Downtown and the Burj Khalifa took over the postcard. Still one of the more elegant things on the skyline — the proportions have aged better than most of what came after.