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Mar 10, 10:04 pm

A Dream of Dubai

dubai_view_plane“Dubai is a prototype of the new post-global city, which creates appetites rather than solves problems,” opines George Katodrytis, an architect working in Dubai, in a piece originally published in Bidoun. Indeed, Dubai has remade itself as the paragon of imitation culture, a nowhere-land that has architects salivating. Suddenly unburdened of nearly all constraints save profitability, those late-night bouts of wishful thinking go from sketch to concrete with lightning speed”.

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