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October 23, 2006
Falconcity is the latest architectural catastrophe to emerge from the sands and shores of Dubai. Featuring reproductions of the Grand Pyramid, the Great Wall (‘Imagine your self jogging on top of one of the greatest walls ever built’), the Town of Venice (sic), which ‘brings to you a unique Italian dreamy experience’, and Central Park West, completion with a recreation of Central Park. It’s nice that the ‘Dubai Eiffel Tower‘ should be given it’s own design rationale, but one really wonders why they bothered (although it is sufficiently difficult to avoid copyright problems with the real tower – a new monograph from Taschen reproduces Gustav Eiffel’s original plans).
Ersatz doesn’t begin to describe it, and yet the Falconcity
(‘the most astonishing place on earth’) will be built, and it probably
will be a success. There was a piece in the paper today about the
‘ultimate package holiday’, a 32,000 mile
23-day tour of 10 countries. In terms of the experience, taking this
trip probably equates closely to visiting the Falconcity in full flow,
with desert heat and extreme travel fatigue serving as a hazy mask to
dull the senses. Both are, of course, extremely depressing but, it has
to be said, not new. Dan Hill posts about Evelyn Waugh’s comments on Monte Carlo, and how they could easily be used to describe modern day Dubai.
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