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Originally Posted by carfreak01
^for the effect. I don't know if I like that, though. This isn't really being built in an urban fabric. It's just being built off of a road intersection on a huge area, most of which will be empty land permanently. It's kind of like building in a suburban setting. Odd.
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The area looks empty now, but it won't remain empty land permanently. There're a bunch of low-rises and highrises going up as part of the Dubai International Financial Centre in part of that desert you see in the pic. The world's largest mall is going up in the area as well, as well as 30 other highrises as part of the Burj Dubai complex, and an artificial lake. The area behind them will have more than 100 highrises as part of the Business Bay project.
The sand you see in the picture will certainly not be there anymore by the year 2008.