Aug 3, 06:48 pm
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Copenhagen
George katodrytis and Khalid Al Najjar made presentation during the Seminar by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Copenhagen: “Space, Form, Context: Site-specific project”, April 15-16, 2004, Sharjah University.
The Dubai Experiment
“A surreal machine that reproduces its own identity, Dubai is the most successful urban model in the region. There is no new theory here, rather a realization of commonplace potentials and well-rehearsed attitudes toward the city, which is seen as the sum of events and urban activities that work well at all levels. More than a grand-scale “shopping mall,” Dubai is a city of corporate-culture landmarks, a hypermarket or concourse-like space where events and plug-in enterprises change and expand, become deformed and replaced. It is comprised of a series of thematic zones, “hyper-surface” planes, “liquid space” events, and “mind-zone” spaces. It is a city of airport- and hotel lobby-like spaces, a modern urban mirage in the desert.”
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