Transfer: Dubai X3

October 12, 2005

Transfer has been tracing Dubai's refraction as it explodes forth from the desert, as well as watching the western media scraping slowly behind, first Mike Davis' excellent read, as well as some interesting architectural reads. Now the New Yorker has jumped in with a print only article by Ian Parker and a stellar slide show of Robert Polidori's photographs, from which the two pix above were taken. In related resources, Emporis has a fairly large collection of hi-rise construction pix from Dubai UAE. Brian McMorrow has an engaging 36 pages of photographs of Dubai's megaprojects on his PBase site, offering a personalized view of this realized mirage. Below are two photos he took of the Palms.

Posted by jmarston at October 12, 2005 02:34 PM