Posted on 07/17/2008 6:04:15 AM PDT by Uncledave
0-14 Tower
Arabian Blade
Burj Dubai
Dancing Towers
DubaiLand Snow Dome
Falcon City Of Wonders
Madinat Al Arab
Dubai Marina
Dubai Metro
Dubai Old Town
The Opus
Dubai Pearl
Dubai Renaissance
Dubai Sports City
Dubai Towers
Dubai Waterfront
Golden Dome
Dubai Hydropolis
Palm Islands
Sports Science World
The Cloud
The World
Da Vinci Tower
Arch Bridge
Dubai Mall
Dubai World Central International Airport
And the sad irony is that 7 years after 9/11 we haven't built squat on the giant hole in downtown Manhattan.
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Oil can do a lot of things. Too bad the Dems won’t let us use our oil, like the Arabs use theirs.
What surprises me is that the Enviro-Natzies aren’t running over there to whine about what those in Dubai are doing to “the environment.” I mean, all of these buildings must be displacing some variety of sand flea that the world just cannot live without!
Oh, that’s right. We put up with their nonsense while the rest of the world doesn’t! :)
9.11 officials are stuck on stupid.
i wonder why these once-not-too-long-ago nomads
and asians put up more interesting buildings that we do.
most of our new skyscrapers, with the exception of frank gehry,
are boring boxes.
Gee - look at all the interesting architecture they can create with the money we export to them. And if they can’t build, they can always just buy our interesting architecture. :-P
I was just there and there’s an awful lot of work being done down in that “giant hole”.
It now looks like any other construction site.
Not to mention the “carbon footprint” - they should be living in mud huts and riding bicycles to avoid killing the polar bears.
Make the high gas prices worth it!! /sarc
So whats all the BS about world demand pushing prices up. Whats pushing prices up is a monopoly on the oil supply.
The way his country is going our architecture in the
future will be mud huts-with a high mortgage.
Heard on the radio news report a few weeks ago that the Port Authority which owns the area are now not certain when it will be completed. There is construction yes going on, but there has been some problems. Just adding my 50 cents here.
There’s always an explosion if pride just before the end.
If oil ever plunges those folks are screwed.
What? Muslims invented money and architecture don’t you know.
Well if the Donald had been giving the job to rebuild “ the giant hole “ in Manhatten, adding the proper updated safety features to the new building(s), then it would be been rebuilt or on the way to being rebuilt.
...Plus the Iranians just across the Strait of Homusz have been testing some new missles lately. They could become easy targets for President Nutjob and the Mullahs.
Pretty soon people are going to realize this is an Islam country under Islam rule. After people start getting beheaded for wearing swimsuits in public, all these fanciful dreams will vaporize.
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