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Dubai Artificial Island City Mixes Mythic Past and Future With a Death Star 3D Neighborhood for Kicks

From afar, Dubai is the most exciting place on earth, almost every day shaping up to be more like the utopic sci-fi fantasy city we had in our heads growing up. Its 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. More »

8:00 PM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By matt buchanan
17,395 views, 55 comments

Latest by n/a: My friend lived there for about a year, and apparently they have an incredibly high rape rate among white girls living there. She said several of her friends at the british high school got raped by arab guys. Just throwing more »