Dubai...
Hallucination/ phantasmagoria seem to be the kind of words one would experience while under the influence of drugs.Not that I am talking of experience but is Dubai the place where we go to get high and to live in an imaginary realm. If not drugs then is it Peter Pan’s Neverland we shall never age but we could fly? Funny enough that I wouldn’t be surprised if this becomes reality in the near future because we are talking about Dubai!!!
For a man like Sheik MO, nothing is too big, nothing is too tall. He is all architects’ dream client. He is the Santa Clause of the Architectural world. His greed to be number one can only be a good thing for the architectural profession.
It sickens me to read about the kind of treatment that the workers experience there. They have built the whole place with oil, money and cheap labour. The title of the article should really be: Fear, Money and Slavery in Dubai. At the beginning of the article I was really excited about the prospect of visiting Dubai and maybe one day working there. However, by the time I was done reading, I am now not even sure I want to set foot in this place even though I have nothing to fear. Still, as long as there are people available to work for cheap, things will never change.
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