Comments on: Waterfront City masterplan by OMA

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:24:49 +0000

It is funny, I’ve heard over and over again people criticize Dubai and what happens over there, yet most people criticizing were born and live in other cities where there are HUGE anomalies and problems…do they do anything about bringing solutions to their own cities? have they got the experience, knowledge and influence to get involved and do something about it? Sounds like there are a lot of students barking and making a lot of useless noise. Get knowledge, experience and be humble. Those who criticize are always the first ones to pull their pants down and betray their own words when the heat is on. I have seen it myself in Dubai and in other glorified western cities.

By: dean

dean — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:11:05 +0000

SHUT UP IGNORANT W@NKERS…change your nappies, do some work of your own (I wonder if you have the capacity) and LEARN before being so judgmental and negative.

By: Alejandro Nervegna

Alejandro Nervegna — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:48:01 +0000

Come on guys, don’t waste your talent on this. If you’re not agree with this “future designs policy” (I’m not) then fight for that. Let’s make a real change. If this is what big corporations, annonymous persons do, then show to everyone what YOU think it should be done!
Life is the only God we should worship, and as we all know it have strange ways to show its presence. If this is outrageous (I’m truly convinced it is) then it will perish. But don’t wait for it. Make something. Do your homework.
Here’s my e-mail: nervegnaar@gmail.com. I am 24 years-old, architect and dreamer till I die. I will do everything I can to make those dreams come to life. If you think the same way as me and you need someone who thinks as you then here I am.
Good luck everyone and let’s work for a better future.
Dubai will collapse, one way or another, and we all know it.
ARCHATTACKs!
OMA (Oh My Ass!)

By: diego

diego — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:18:50 +0000

all westerns that critisize this projects just od it out of jelousy, the states has never even dreaming of becoming anything near this, no president of the states has ever even imagine doing somethig this great, new york, denver,La, vegas, paris rome, anything else is nothing, completly meaningless, these people know what money is for, to build great things, rather than the states that since their early history have spent it all on invading poor countries and bombing defenceless little nation, well learn from this people and stop judging it only makes you look pathetic the wholle world knows it, and we all laugh at youm from pole to pole

By: wbaden

wbaden — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:19:45 +0000

pimp new world

By: Bruno von Dunkel

Bruno von Dunkel — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:49:05 +0000

This megaproject seems to outrace all other planned new communities, but it’s a must! Already 50 percent of world’s people are living in cities, there will be sure 70 percent or more within some decades. Where shall all this mass of bodies be stapled? They don’t want to stay in slums any longer, they have the right in participation of better living. Not only architects and project manager should design this new mankind aggregation places, also social workers, non comercial specialists, and the “victim” himself must have the chance, to be involved in the planning and realization process. Dubai is a laboratory, let’s take it for all mankind!

By: Nico

Nico — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:15:44 +0000

to quote from the Nahkeel website:

“Learning well from the past, Nakheel decided to create history: compressing centuries of social progression into (estimated project duration)”

I have never laughed so hard in my life, not a laughter of humor, rather the laughter the is the only reaction possible for a mind faced with the horror of the sublime absurd.

By: Bob Foley

Bob Foley — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:34:25 +0000

This is the worst master plan that I’ve ever seen. Dubai has so much money to spend and I am very sad that will spend it in this project. I think we really need a creative revolution in master plan design. An architecture that would takes into consideration nature, society and cutting edge tech with a strong innovative design.

Even my son that is 8 years old has designed a more beautiful city in sincity than this square-shaped ugly island in Dubai waterfront project.

By: poppins

poppins — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:29:05 +0000

how many icons can you fit along one coast..well many according to rem, and theres never enough. you build what the client wants.. so rather than having a dig at oma, don’t. they cleverly manage to fit their wit and intelligence into any brief. always re-analysing, never judging. lets just see how many people ‘copy-paste’ these ideas. atleast rem admits it when he does it, and more importantly, its his OWN ideas that he re-invents…the only difference is, is that this time he doesn’t want to become bankcrupt whilst doing so

By: WriterGuy

WriterGuy — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:43:45 +0000

Wondering where the money is coming from? Dubai is the Switzerland of the Middle East, and the Sheiks are funneling billions out of their own countries and laundering it through these giant constructions projects.

Think organized crime, but on a planet-wide scale.