Dubai Blogged

Compare this design from Rem Koolhaas (OMA) for the RAK, a new research facility in Dubai, with the Death Star (Star Wars, remember ..). This is no coincidence - The Emperor is not amused!

Just take a look at this surreal image of the skyscrapers on the Sheikh Zayed Road - it’s the ‘Strip’ of Dubai - pointing trough the clouds. Incredible.

‘Restless Planet’, this will be the name of the ‘amusement park’ being build right now in Dubai, for the exorbitant pricetag of 1,1 billion dollar. Closer to Jurassic Park, you can’t get. Me likes a lot!

In just a few weeks, constructors in Dubai start with their next architecture record attempt: building the biggest and highest arch bridge in the world (genre http://vwkombi.com/photos/around-australia/Images/16.jpg, so not competing with hanging bridges like the Golden Gate Bridge). 200 Meters high, 12 driving lanes and a price tag of 817 million dollar. Not that they needed this bridge - they just like doing stuff like this. ‘Because they can’. In all cases: this looks spacy and cool. Take a look at this render, and think that this iddylic landscape with grass, water and little sailing boats is right in the middle of the dessert. In the background you see the ‘Dubai Towers’. In a few years, movie directors won’t need CGI anymore, they can film ‘Minority Report 2′ easily in Dubai ..

 Who says ‘iPad’, might first think of the legendary Apple PDA. But just as with the iPhone, also the name iPad is already claimed by a completely different company. One fantasy rich project developer in Dubai is gonna construct the ‘iPad’, a building in the shape of a, you guessed it, iPod. 23 Stories high, it even included a ‘docking station’ and it’s leaning backward in a slope of 6 degrees - a perfect replica. This building is a joke of 800 million dollar. Crazyness!

Belgium dredging companies are already working for years in Dubai now, adding and removing some sand, creating canals, islands and the like - doing everything to create a most luxurious atmosphere in Dubai. The famous ‘Palm Island’ is already reality and is being finished ‘as we speak’. But it doesn’t stop there. A luxurious world of small islands is being made in front of the coast line, to be transformed in a chill out holiday resort. State of the art exclusivity - like they call it themselves in the promo video.