Dubai Construction Update: Rem Koolhaas’ Waterfront City

March 7, 2008 | Posted by Allison as Tid Bits & News at 1:00 pm |

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Architect Rem Koolhaas was fooling around some years back with a concept he called the ‘generic city’.  The city he imagined consisted of Dali-like images of spheres & towers.  Unlike most of Dali-like work, however, this concept is going to be realized in nowhere else but the fastest growing urban city, Dubai.

Dubai will soon start construction on a 1.5 billion square foot project dubbed Waterfront City.  Can this sound any more comic book?  The city will be taking advantage of Rem Koolhaas’ vision & building a 44-foot storey sphere, with rows upon rows of towering skyscrapers. 

Wow, you either have to love or be a little frightened by a city that has no end to its pockets nor its aims, or maybe a little bit of both.

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