This rapid expansion of the city has inevitably created a new architectural phenomenon: individual high-rise blocks grouped together by virtue of proximity and with little or no surroundings create distinguished skylines.
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The scope of the publication is to look at Dubai’s architecture and urbanism with focus on its evolution (historical, social, cultural, contemporary) in the form of a documentation, presentation and analysis.
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George has contributed to the With/Without publication by Bidoun
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George has contributed to the Al Manakh publication by Archis Foundation
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The Superlative City
George has contributed to the publication The Superlative City Dubai and the Urban Condition in the Early Twenty-First Century
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In Dubai there is little difference between holiday accommodation and housing. Architectural programs are becoming fused and undifferentiated. The morphology of the landscape and seascape is becoming fabricated to the point that it may soon be difficult to differentiate between the natural and the constructed.
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Work published in the German magazine GEO Special, March 2007
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Work published in Australian magazine THE DIPLOMAT, March 2007 issue
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The oblique view of extruded spikes, lays out a city as elaborate as that of a Persian carpet. It’s how an X-ray looks, crystal clear and transparent. It is how we imagine the military sees the monochromatic world when surveilling it at night. It is as if the digital board of the processor has been blown out of proportion, the higher you go the more prestige you gain, obstructing each other’s view. Yet gazing out of the window of the 150th floor remains the most intense and solitude act so far that this century of buildings has offered.
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