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To: TigerLikesRooster

Very nice!!

will be great for base jumping

I do get impressed by cool architecture. The UAE guys are broadly idiots with their economic planning, but the one good result of the free spending has been some very cool buidings.

Like a fantasy land. No economic rationale but waaaaay cool!


7 posted on 06/06/2010 7:48:45 AM PDT by SoftwareEngineer
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Why is this bankrupt country spending huge sums of money building islands, Formula One racetracks and towers like this?

“If you build it they will come?” Ehhh...


23 posted on 06/06/2010 7:58:44 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I suffer from B.S. - Barack Syndrome!)
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Agree. The exteriors, at least, are beautiful. Often the interiors are tacky Islamic Rococo.


24 posted on 06/06/2010 7:58:53 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Maybe the UAE will be the middle east’s Detroit in the future.


25 posted on 06/06/2010 7:59:09 AM PDT by ReformedBeckite
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To: SoftwareEngineer

True.


31 posted on 06/06/2010 8:02:16 AM PDT by americanophile (November can't come fast enough....)
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