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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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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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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Emerging Synthetic Urbanism
Recent approaches to urbanism pay greater attention to the role of external forces in the shaping of our cities. The network of these forces affects the rules of the operative system, incorporating both near and far, visible and invisible, local and global. Sections are created by weaving, superposition and overlapping, rather than through stacking.
posted Aug 2, 07:34 pm, Read more... Comment
Dubai’s Satellite Urbanism
Dubai is turning into a postcard portrait city of the future. Satellite imagery of unfinished projects gives rise to the exciting promise of fantasy.
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Dubai's Urbanism by numbers
Dubailand’s replica of the Eiffel Tower will be 70 feet taller than the original and the replica of Taj Mahal 150 percent bigger than the original.
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Constructed Leisure-land
The modern tourist resort is by definition a constructed one. The tourist’s perception seems to have shifted away from the pictorial 18th century: there is no longer the desire for the panoramic view. The excessively visual contemporary culture has made everything look familiar. Contemporary tourists are looking for familiarity: they want to feel at home in a strange place.
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