DUBAI | Mohammed Bin Rashed Gardens | NEVER BUILT - Page 2

sciguy0504 · #21 Posted **Aug 6, 2008, 5:20 PM**

Dubai has to the most anti-urban city in the world.

And how are these gardens?

Lecom · #22 Posted **Aug 6, 2008, 5:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by PA Pride

This one is particularly futuristic:

Looks like a 21st century redux of the Perisphere and Trylon.

smussuw · #23 Posted **Aug 7, 2008, 4:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by sciguy0504

And how are these gardens?

I think 70% of the project will be gardens and parks

Lecom · #24 Posted **Aug 7, 2008, 5:01 AM**

I doubt that such sprawling green spaces would be sustainable in a habitat that does not naturally support much vegetation. Palms should do just fine but I don't see how on earth they can maintain hundreds of acres of green lawns without using enormous amounts of water and energy in the process.

malec · #25 Posted **Aug 7, 2008, 10:11 AM**

Yep, green my arse!

BrandonJXN · #26 Posted **Aug 14, 2008, 1:24 AM**

This would easily take about 75 years and hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars to build.

NYC2ATX · #27 Posted **Aug 14, 2008, 7:27 AM**

You've GOT to be SHITTING me.

*SIGH*

....at this rate, New York City would have to bulldoze the better part of either Nassau County or Northern New Jersey and build this, just to compete.

clubbernut · #28 Posted **Oct 31, 2008, 5:45 PM**

Not massively enlightening on progress, but good to see it hasn't been canned yet!

Read somewhere else they're planning on starting in 2009... anyone else know any more?

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/52943...-plan-revealed

malec · #29 Posted **Jan 23, 2009, 1:07 AM**

I think we can safely say, never built!

JDRCRASH · #30 Posted **Jan 25, 2009, 6:56 AM**

This is getting ridiculous. How high do you guys think all this would drive up the price of steel, leading to cancellations of U.S. projects due to high costs?

smussuw · #31 Posted **Jan 25, 2009, 8:44 AM**

why is this one in the "Never built" section? Last time I checked it wasn't canceled !

TANGELD_SLC · #32 Posted **Jan 28, 2009, 7:52 AM**

This has got to be BY FAR the best thing that could ever have possibly happened to Dubai and as far as I can tell IT'S STILL GOING TO BE BUILT!
One of the main reasons I like it so much is how it is chock full of ancient sacred geometry!

BTW for all of you who think it's going to be uber expensive, I got these off of Eric Kuhne's website CivicArts.com:

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Project facts

80 sq km Size of the project

$54.4 bn Cost of the project

Developer Dubai Properties, part of Dubai Holding

Architect Civic Arts/Eric R Kuhne and Associates

Similar ventures:

Kuwait’s forthcoming City of Silk, which will house nature reservations including a desert reserve

Omagine, a $1.6 billion theme park and residential complex made up of seven pearl-shaped structures to be built on a stretch of beach 20 kilometres outside Muscat

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