une ville rêveuse - a dream city~

Almost the whole world, including economic giants USA, Japan and China, is shivering over skyrocketing oil prices, one country on Earth seems largely unaffected. It United Arab Emirates, where the palm island is located.

i bet most of you guys out there have heard bout palm island before.
Incase there's somebody that doesn't acknowledge it's existence, I'll summarize some info bout it here.

Somewhere in Dubai, they made a man made island. I wouldn't dare to say it's the first, but i dare say it's the largest, ( it made it's way to be seen in the satellite view). It cost millions to build such a wonder on earth. Unfortunately , to enjoy such facilities, it might cost you your life saving, or even more. I found myself wondering can i even afford the air tic to fly there..XD

One of its current project is building the tallest building on earth( a tittle once malaysian were proud of) . By the time you're reading now, they are actually building dozens of buildings that will stand up high, exceeding KLCC's height by big numbers , way far more outstanding.



1. Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building is due for completion end of this year. Currently it has 162 completed floors.
2. The Pentominium - 120 floors - Location: Dubai Marina - Completion: 2011
3. Burj Al Alam - 108 floors - Location: Business Bay - Completion: 2010

well, i would not list all out, but i will pick a few that had amazed me to share about~


one of my favorite, the rotating building . The best part i like about it is ,it's environment friendly. Between each floor, there's a turbine, that will charged into electricity when wind blow towards it. ( like those wind-mill) . The energy generated will be used to rotate the whole building . Since it's called the rotating building, you will wake up every morning and enjoy the different view every single day .Each floor rotates at different paces and the building wouldn't have a definite shape~..^^...and those engineers even had calculated the rotation speed , so that you do not even notice it's rotating ( to avoid dizziness)

well, another structure that they plan to built, is this ' lilypad floating city' . Though it's a mere plan, the idea itself make alot of impact on other's, i believe that this even had attract investors to invest on this fairly tale land. i dare say this project isn't going to start anytime so soon. But it might just be the key , in far future , on how to create a city for citizens from all around the globe, if the global warming decided to show no mercy on mankind .


I don't know how much people out there would actually like these kind of stuff, but for me, this keep me inspired to reach my out to my dream of being a great architect . I hope that each of you guys, found things that inspired you to achieve something in life. If you haven't, i hope this post will be a kick start to push you forward.
Anyway, until next time~ ciaoz...^^