1.5-billion-square-foot Waterfront City in Dubai by Rem Koolhaas
Latest architectural stuntwork - masterpiece is the 1.5-billion-square-foot Waterfront City designed by Rem Koolhaas, an entire self-contained city resting atop an artificial island that mixes inspirations from ninth-century mosques to Koolhaas’s own ideas about the THX 1138-esque generic city.
The island will be divided into 25 identical blocks, which will be populated by a mix of tall and squat towers punctuated by more fantastic buildings, like a spiraling 82-story tower, and a 44-story sphere that will be its own mini-city within a mini-city complete with a sprawling network of escalator tubes. There’s also traditional parks and stuff inside to keep it a little more earthly, but every new gargantuan development like this makes us wonder just how far Dubai will push it next.
March 5, 2008 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Hans - Comments: 2
March 11th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Wow, another ridiculous and unsustainable proposal for Dubai. That place is going to be the world’s biggest ghost town when the oil runs out.
And enough with the artificial islands ffs. Rem’s design looks interesting, but imo the whole idea is irresponsible.
March 23rd, 2008 at 4:32 am
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