Dubailand

Posted by Miss Cellania in Travel & Places on February 23, 2009 at 9:31 am


Among many other construction projects, Dubai is developing plans for a theme park called Dubailand which (if completed) will be twice the size of Walt Disney World! It will feature City of Arabia with the biggest mall in the world (and dinosaurs), Sports City with four huge arenas, the second-highest ferris wheel in the world, and the Snow Dome. See more pictures, and more odd theme parks, in the post World’s Strangest Theme Parks. Link

 
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Refrigerated Beach?

Posted by Miss Cellania in Travel & Places on December 17, 2008 at 12:19 am

The new Palazzo Versace hotel in Dubai wants to provide every luxury to its guests. The latest planned innovation is a refrigerated beach!

The beach will have a network of pipes beneath the sand containing a coolant that will absorb heat from the surface.

The swimming pool will be refrigerated and there are also proposals to install giant blowers to waft a gentle breeze over the beach.

Versace’s plans have shocked environmentalists. Rachel Noble, the campaigns officer at Tourism Concern, which promotes sustainable tourism, said that the carbon generated by such projects would contribute to climate change, whose worst effects would be felt by the poor.

“Dubai is like a bubble world where the things that are worrying the rest of the world, like climate change, are simply ignored so that people can continue their destructive lifestyles,” she said.

The hotel should open in late 2009 or early 2010. Link -Thanks, Chris Tackett!

 
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The Cloud

Posted by Robert Birming in Architecture on November 18, 2007 at 7:48 am

The Cloud is Nadim Karam’s design concept for a resort city elevated 300 metres in the air and supported on slanting legs resembling rain.

Where it’s supposed to be located? Yes, you guessed it: in Dubai.

Link – via Pusha

 
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