Dubai By

Peak of the world Building craze

HubrisPolis





http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/Hydropolis
http://www.crescent-hydropolis.com

http://www.burj-al-arab.com

http://www.burjalarab.dubai-city.de

http://www.pastpeak.com/archives/2006/01/skiing_in_the_d_1.htm








http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=101057

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1561284101248340143&q=dubai

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=790232902212341950&q=dubai

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4822009626591036364&q=dubai


http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/the-very-height-of-ambition/2006/01/12/1136956303602.html

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6179432634249787416&q=dubai

"At the top of the pyramid is the al-Maktoum family and its associates, controlling and investing the well of cash derived from oil, exercising total political and social control and building the futuristic version of Arabia based on trade and finance. Dreamland: everyone knows there's a property-market bubble and the stock market is bound to fall."

The Emerald City the Black Gold $ made ...

Something absurdly phallic about this masculine civilisation ambitioning to erect ever taller, sterile buildings, at the cost of draining the earth of its unrenewable resources, and without hope of sustainability. When future alien underwater archeologists come, they'll wonder, which cargo gods, humans were worshipping, and why. This is Oil Utopia, the phantasmed perfect society, to be found (in the middle of) nowhere.