A pundit on the BBC World network said, “It seems like 2005, not 2015.”

It’s Dubai thinking big again. With a project to include the Dubai One residential tower, at 2,332 feet the world’s tallest; the world’s longest indoor ski slope, an 8,000-capacity arena and an enormous mall with a retractable roof.

Also part of the project named Meydan One will be a five-star hotel with 350 rooms, the world’s highest observation deck (at 2,148 feet) and the world’s highest restaurant (at 2,214 feet).

And a 100-yacht marina.

And the world’s “biggest dancing fountains”.

The project returns Dubai to the thrilling days of yesteryear when mind-boggling projects were an everyday thing.

Have a look at the photo gallery in The National, which includes artists renderings.

The project will set five world records, and Dubai is nuts about world records; the Guinness records people have an office there to keep track of them all. No, really.

Dubai already has the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa (at 2,722 feet) and the world’s largest mall by area, Dubai Mall.

It also already has an indoor ski slope, at the Mall of the Emirates, but that one is “only” a quarter-mile (1,312 fe3t) in length. The planned ski slope at Meydan One will be 1.2 kilometers in length — nearly 4,000 feet long.

Dubai likes to do this sort of thing … the mega-project, and so far the city/emirate seems to succeed more often than not.

But the BBC pundit was correct when he pegged a project the size of Meydan One as something that seemed to fit more easily into the Dubai of a decade ago.

The global economic downturn of 2008-10 slowed down Dubai, requiring it to obtain a loan of $20 billion from Abu Dhabi.

The Meydan One project (some or most of it) is expected to be complete in time for Expo 2020, sometimes referred to as the world’s fair, to be held in Dubai.

Not that Dubai needs a reason to think big. Very big.