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Today Zabeel Palace is surrounded by Dubai's modern buildings. In 1965 Zabeel Palace stood alone in the desert. The Palace originally comprised three small buildings built in the late 1950s. Around 1963 Sheikh Rashid commissioned Overseas AST to build a new Zabeel Palace. Ing. Otto Bulard of Overseas AST designed and built a rectangular building linking three existing buildings to form a single complex.
Sheikh Rashid took up residence in his new Palace around 1965. Zabeel Palace became his main residence until his death in 1990.
