Dubai's dubious building boom has spawned a new architecture of unparalleled excess - one needn't look further than the desert region's ski slope, refrigerated beach and proposed ice cube lodge to find proof. However as of late the emirate's blustery building pace has lost its muster, and the latest megaproject to go south is The World, an archipelago of manmade islands modeled after the seven continents that seems to have sprung a leak. We first covered the world-shaped chain of islands several years ago, and now the crumbling series of ill-fated isles is sinking like Atlantis into the sea.
Granted Dubai’s stratospheric rise over the past few years, it may come as no surprise that several of its projects have flown too close to the sun. The World was envisioned as the ultimate luxury retreat: for an exorbitant price you could lay claim to your own private island – a corner of the globe to call your own. The islands were created from displaced sand dredged up from the depths of the sea, however a property tribunal recently cited evidence that the islands have begun to erode and the waterways that separate them are dissolving due to the influx of sand.
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Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. 25 The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!
Home run! Great slugigng with that answer!
I will add another simple proverb to the mix “A fool and his money are soon parted”.
When this project began, I knew it was not going to suceed for two reasons.
1 – Sand islands which have no supporting foundations like rocks or coral reefs are doomed to erode, I could not understand why the engineers did not mimic a real island by creating better artificial foundations to stop the eventual erosion.
2 – Tsunami… It would wipe them out in a flash and any body not thinking about that possibility would be trowing there money away for a harsh reality.
We as human beings do some stupid things in the name of power and greed. Sometimes that comes back to haunt us – big time!
As human we are digging our own grave by the name of creativity, technology and development.
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