Slog - Comments on Rem Koolhaas's Dubai http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai Read Nicolai Ouroussoff's entire piece on the design, because it is about the life of all cities. Ouroussoff lays out both sides of Koolhaas's project—and each side's potential powers and dangers—really well, especially his salutes to Warholian sameness and, at the same time, his outbursts of egotism.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:47:45 -0800 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:36:55 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by NapoleonXIV The truly interesting thing about Dubai is that in 50 years, most of it will be washed away by the rising seas.

And yet they still keep building.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953469 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953469 Visual Art Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:01:54 -0800 Comment by Katelyn "Is this large enough to sustain the dense social fabric that Mr. Koolhaas is after? Or is it more likely to become a new species of gated enclave, architecturally stupendous yet profoundly exclusionary?"

I predict it'll be more towards the profoundly exclusionary. Dense social fabrics are born, not made.

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953471 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953471 Visual Art Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:03:19 -0800 Comment by seattle98104 IT'S THE FUCKING DEATHSTAR!

]]> seattle98104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953472 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953472 Visual Art Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:03:31 -0800 Comment by Trevor "the thrust of his strategy is to turn the logic of the gated community on its head: isolation becomes a way to trap urban energy rather than keep it out. His goal is to imbue his waterfront enclave with enough complexity to provide a distilled version of the great metropolis within this moated sanctuary."

Sounds like another vanity project for the super-wealthy. Where will its (guest) workers live?

]]> Trevor http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953474 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953474 Visual Art Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:04:53 -0800 Comment by Katelyn Oooh, good call on the guest workers, Trevor @4.

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953476 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953476 Visual Art Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:06:56 -0800 Comment by max solomon what is dubai's FUNCTION?

besides Michael Jackson, WHO lives there? WHY?

ELF, THIS should be your target. not that i object to you warming up on Street of Dreams.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953479 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953479 Visual Art Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:12:26 -0800 Comment by marmar Too bad no one in their right mind will travel there to see this since Dubai frequently arrests and unjustly imprisons foreign travelers

Briton jailed for four years in Dubai after customs find cannabis weighing less than a grain of sugar under his shoe
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23436226-details/Briton+jailed+in+Dubai+after+officials+find+cannabis+weighing+less+than+a+grain+of+sugar+under+his+shoe/article.do

]]> marmar http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953480 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953480 Visual Art Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:12:38 -0800 Comment by COMTE @3:

Hm, my first impression was that it was a ginormous Pokemon ball:

"I choose YOU, Dubaisaurus!"

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953615 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953615 Visual Art Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:38:58 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi That city is going to be tackier than Vegas.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953668 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953668 Visual Art Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:09:59 -0800 Comment by fllw hmmm... Koolhaus' "generic city" sounds an awful lot like Corbu's "la ville radieuse" plan to destroy Paris and replace it with and endless grid of identical towers...

so Koolhaus adds a few, to use Venturi's term, "Ducks" and it's supposed to be wonderful?

doesn't sound either creative or appealing.

We already have the suburbs to prove that a sterile environment doesn't make people more human

]]> fllw http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953672 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953672 Visual Art Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:12:46 -0800 Comment by max solomon i also like how he shows trees growing everywhere in a fresh-waterless, 120 degree desert.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953721 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/rem_koolhaass_dubai#c953721 Visual Art Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:36:55 -0800