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Dubai's Aladdin city
| November 25th, 2016 at 9:07:34 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |  How can this little chunk of desert keep building these complexes.  |
| November 25th, 2016 at 9:59:45 AM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18761 | Looks like a giant picture frame. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| November 25th, 2016 at 11:10:55 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
 Dubai is a city full of emblems. Rather than adding another one, we propose to frame them all: to frame the city. Instead of building a massive structure, the purpose of this project is to build a void. This void of 150 meters by 105 meters will continuously frame the development of the past, current and future Dubai. It will become the structure that celebrates yet constrains the city. Opposed to the complexity in architecture, the Dubai Frame would become the most simple yet extraordinary archetype; maximization of the post-and-lintel principle. As architecture is about framing space, this will be its epitome. The Dubai Frame is a sustainable structure, easy to build and maintain, yet with an incomparable presence in the city; an anti-icon.  They are actually going to refrigerate the beach at this hotel so you don't burn your feet. The revolutionary beach will sit next include a system of heat-absorbing pipes built under the sand and giant wind blowers, designed to keep tourists cool. I guess you don't want to force people to wear flip flops. I've actually been to this city in Oman, which for all practical purposes might as well be on the moon.  |
| November 25th, 2016 at 11:31:03 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18207 |
Shows what nearby oil wealth will do for you. All from a federation that half did note even want independence when the Brits left in the early 1970s. I know a guy who did a haunted house for charity here. Some prince saw it and wanted an identical one boxed up and installed in a mall over there. From that small to man-made islands, they do not lack ambition. It has now become Singapore East, a financial capital with little reason for being there (the oil is in the other emirates.) The President is a fink. |
| November 25th, 2016 at 5:58:37 PM permalink | |
| stinkingliberal Member since: Nov 9, 2016 Threads: 17 Posts: 731 |
I'm curious as to what their policies are regarding what women must wear on the beach (or in the rest of the city, for that matter). I also wonder how well they treat female tourists in general. My guess is that as long as those women have lots of money in their purses, the inviolable sacred rules handed down to them by The Great Jubjub (Allah's sole representative on Earth) can be quietly chucked out the window. I suspect that "Western whore!" is ALWAYS muttered inaudibly. |
| November 25th, 2016 at 7:53:57 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
I was only in Bahrain and Oman which are midway between ultra conservative Saudi Arabia and Qatar and the more liberal Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait. Most people from Dubai have been to Europe and America. In Bahrain as long as it wasn't Ramadan you might even see women wearing shorts in the biggest city. During Ramadan they have "morals police" who would whack a woman with a stick in shorts. They hit hard enough to leave a nasty welt. It isn't a love tap. The small towns were very different. Women tighten their veils if they see a Western man, and they cross the street. Even the McDonalds have curtains around the booths so that people can't look at the women. But Dubai is very international. I suspect that almost anything short of pornographic goes. They probably get more conservative during Ramadan.
From the women, of course. Men are men. |