Posted on 01/24/2011 11:00:47 AM PST by FromLori
It exemplified the booming property market and ambition of Dubai’s entrepreneurs.
But after the global financial crisis led to the collapse of the emirate’s home-building market, a unique development known as ‘The World’ is reportedly facing Armageddon.
The project, a man-made archipelago designed to resemble a map of the planet, is facing disaster as its islands have begun sinking, a tribunal heard this week. The development, which sits a mile and a half from the mainland, is all but vacant after investors who bought up its ‘nations’ saw their finances collapse after the economic crash.
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Didn’t Trump and Simon Cowell purchase property in Dubai?
I suppose the slaves won’t mind seeing this sink
The dark side of Dubai
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html
I’m not sure about them but I think Brangelina did.
How long is an artificial island suppose to last?
The use of the term "sinking" feeds the algoresters in their hysteria that the sea levels are rising due to the global warming scam.
The should have had a Jewish engineer!
Boy that Allah is a fickle demon...
The ones in the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel have been around since 1964.
They probably did...LOL!!!
another big development project that is “under water”
History or Discover had a show on the building of the Islands ... maybe they didn’t show it, but no mention was made, as I recall, of packing anything or geological substrate studies. They just dredged sand on top of sand until the islands were formed. It seemed they paid a lot more attention to shape than stability...
And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually
...Jimi Hendrix
It depends on a lot of things-- current, materials, engineering and placement. Japan has done a great job with artificial islands. Kansai International Airport is probably the model of artificial island engineering. It survived the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake with minimal damage. That being said, it wasn't cheap to build and is not cheap to maintain nor operate.
These projects can potentially make sense in a densely populated country like Japan, but only barely. They do not generally make sense in a desert kingdom such as the U.A.E. This helps explain why developers are more inclined to use glitter and gimmicks to promote the projects and less inclined to invest in top-notch engineering to make sure the artificial islands last.
FWIW, while Kansai International Airport may be the best known example of the Japanese expertise in building artificial islands, it is far from the only example. Port Island and Rokko Island are older and more commercially successful neighborhoods of Kobe which also successfully weathered the Great Hanshin Earthquake. That being said, neither were without problems during the big earthquake. Small sections of the islands needed reinforcement and additional landfill (due to a quicksand-like liquefaction in scattered places) after that earthquake. One can only imagine how a Dubai like development put together without the same type of engineering and construction expertise would have fared under similar circumstances.
Maybe it did have a Jewish engineer. Hehehe.
Well, at least it’s not capsizing like Guam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg&feature=player_embedded
When you’ve got millions to burn, what’s a failed project or two? Besides it adds to the Arab/muslim prestige thingy - all those rich and famous people buying in on the con. Bakshesh, you know.
Seems to me I read about settling problems there too.
while Kansai International Airport may be the best known example of the Japanese expertise in building artificial islands,
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