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I LOVE the palm trees in the station. Very fun!
If you're on public transit or even deigning to look at it is Dubai really your sort of place? Maybe I'm wrong here, but I always sort of thought of it as like Vegas, but in the Middle East and basically a place for the wealthy to blow a ton of money.
Um, wtf? That really is Kevin Killian's penis.
RE: Dubai
From an architectural standpoint, Dubai is one of the most exciting places on the planet right now. those fuckers are throwing up some amazing/appalling buildings in a most remarkable way. They're like the Brasilia of the Aughts only with a multitude of architects and no concern for the environment. I, for one, am desperate to go and check it out with my own eyes.
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I know. I thought Brock was kidding.
Meg Whitman looks like a rug muncher from the faculty section of my 1978 fifth grade yearbook.
Dubai is *CRAP* for city planning, unfortunately. They think they can buy their way into everything.
They build GORGEOUS, functional, tall buildings, but then separate them by miles of empty space. They build huge freeways so you can't walk around, and then are surprised at their awful traffic, so they then build metros and expect people to take them even though you can't walk anywhere.
The Burj Dubai is a monument to human achievement, and it's a crime that it's built in what's basically an empty field by comparison. It's a beautiful building, but it's all by itself.
Frankly I wish SF would copy the Burj Dubai for the Transbay Terminal. A building like that looks awesome (unlike the TBT designs), is functional and sturdy, would complement *any* skyline, and is sorely needed in a floorspace-deprived city like we have here.
PLUS it would be part of a functioning city and not a monument in the wilderness.
Unfortunately we have way too many NIMBYs and BANANAs here to ever do anything like that.