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Burj Khalifa under construction in 2009
a glimpse

Burj Khalifa, Dubai / UAE · 2009   They molded the city, wide and tall, in the sky's furnace.

 

 

 

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   I don’t have much to say about the UAE, because I didn’t feel much there, because my heart wasn’t in it, and so I wasn’t really there at all. Everything, every tiny and huge thing and ambition and craving was so forcefully tall, so irreversibly far over the top, so painfully pretentious. God-sized palms in the making, Babylonian towers thrusting into the burning sky like antennas communicating all the wrong messages, messages of wealth at all cost and shameless pride. Maybe I will be back after it all collapses.  

 

 

 

 

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a glimpse

every corner a superlative
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Atlantis the Palm, Dubai / UAE · 2009   a bathtub for the world's largest fish

places / stories

 

 

 

 

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places / stories

Dubai / Dark Playground: Luxury at What Price?

a look behind the mega-facade

Ever taller came at a price paid in more than dollars.

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of echoing pasts and future finesse

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idyllic lovescapes

There wasn’t much space left for Her to go wild, because Man had spread all over the place. But there were pockets and the smaller the pockets the more space they had for little idyllic lovescapes. see more

elsewhere

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elsewhere

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in the Middle East

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