Du(b)alities
There is a new type of 21st century urbanism emerging. It is about algorithms, the beach, as clusters, with some density, as districts, with facades, like objects, a variety of rooftops, with routes, streets and unique towers.
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Dubai’s Potemkin City [part3]
Latest images (June 2007): Asia-Asia Hotel at Bawadi, Dubai.
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2A (Architecture & Art) magazine # 4: Architecture + Tourism
Call for publication submissions: The Dubai based 2A (Architecture & Art) magazine would like to invite submissions for its next issue on Architecture + Tourism. The magazine content is focused, but not restricted, to the architecture of the Gulf.
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The World's Best Skylines
The World’s Best Skylines (Skyscraper Cities Ranking List)
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Studio Research and Urban Mappings
Rather than falling into the trap of seeing the city from an idealistic or romantic perspective, the work aims at exposing the entrails of architecture, at discovering unique and invisible opportunities. Patterns of behaviour are transformed into urban organizational structures that negotiate, and adapt to, the forever-changing demands and multiple realities of the city.
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Some aerial photographs of Dubai
In the last twenty years, Dubai has developed at a remarkable pace to cosmopolitan global crossroad. Born of determination and imagination in the beautiful yet inhospitable desert, the urban mirage continues to unfurl dynamically into the future.
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Dubai’s Potemkin City [part2]
Following the popularity of the images published in Dubai’s Potemkin City, some more images from Dubai’s new billboard city, anticipating the construction of the largest hotel (5,044 rooms) in the world.
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Dubai’s Potemkin City
For now, billboards made of scaffolding and plywood are in place, but the destination hotel that they are advertising will still have a hard time outdoing them.
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Constructed Fantasy
Dubai’s current condition is an accelerated form of urbanism, consumable, spectacular, diagrammatic, telegenic (as opposed to photogenic), an escapism from the daily banality, a constructed leisure-land, exaggerated familiarity and constructed by Photoshop and other digital media as an iconography of over-dramatization. As such, this is a unique urban condition. A surrealist machine of self-stylization and fantasy, Dubai is both an experiment and a success.
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Quotes on the City
“The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.” -Italo Calvino
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