This is not just a mere architectural masterpiece; it is a lot more than that. This ecological masterpiece is the 1.5-billion-square-foot Waterfront City designed by Rem Koolhaas, an entire self-contained city resting atop an artificial island that mixes inspirations from ninth-century mosques to Koolhaas’s own ideas about the THX 1138-esque generic city. This is probably the most stunning view of a city that I have seen in a long, long time and even the visualization is quite stunning. It looks both futuristic and spectacular but it goes a lot further beyond that. It is an ecological marvel that is self-sustained as a city itself.
The island will be divided into 25 identical blocks, which will be populated by a mix of tall and squat towers punctuated by more fantastic buildings, like a spiraling 82-story tower, and a 44-story sphere that will be its own mini-city within a mini-city complete with a sprawling network of escalator tubes. There’s also traditional parks and stuff inside to keep it a little more earthly, but there won’t be much beyond that and it looks as if Dubai is making sure that it leaves the world behind as rapidly as possible.
This is probably the best green city that I have seen in terms of aesthetics and also the sheer magnitude of it. Dubai has constantly amazed and startled the world with the amazing structures that it has dished out over the last few years. The nation seems to be heading faster in to the future than the world around it in terms of green architecture. Just a take a look at this project and you will be impressed as hell.
