Dubai Downfall Squishes Architectural Dreams
"In the last decade, real-estate nutsiness created those rare conditions all over (even at a few spots in Manhattan), but Dubai was the place where the furthest whimsies of architects--rotating towers! A carbon-neutral ziggurat for 1 million people! A hotel designed by Brad Pitt!--were finally matched by the hubris of clients." New York Magazine 12/04/09

Posted December 7, 2009 08:51 AM