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Not far from Dubai's modern office blocks and hotels, a number of wind-tower houses still stand as a reminder of the graceful and resourceful architecture that pre-dated the arrival of electricity and air-conditioning.

The greatest concentration of these attractive buildings is in the city's Bastakiya district in Bur Dubai.

The vents facing in each direction at the top of the wind-tower draw any breath of cool air into the interior of the house and relieve the heat of the summer.