Pretty much this. All that awesome shit you see in Dubai is built by the thousands of Indian immigrants working for pennies on the dollar, living in tenants, basically stuck in the city because they either can't afford to leave or they have their passports forcibly taken from them.
e: welp should have refreshed
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Yeah, my dad refuses to work there now, he used to be in emerates pretty often to set up networking equipment. The last time he went was when they were starting construction of the Burj Dubai:
The total cost for the project was about US$1.5 billion; and for the entire "Downtown Dubai" development, US$20 billion.[13] In March 2009, Mohamed Ali Alabbar, chairman of the project's developer, Emaar Properties, said office space pricing at Burj Khalifa reached US$4,000 per sq ft (over US$43,000 per m²) and the Armani Residences, also in Burj Khalifa, sold for US$3,500 per sq ft (over US$37,500 per m²).[14]
The project's completion coincided with the global financial crisis of 2007–2010, and with vast overbuilding in the country, led to high vacancies and foreclosures.[15] With Dubai mired in debt from its huge ambitions, the government was forced to seek multibillion dollar bailouts from its oil rich neighbor Abu Dhabi. Subsequently, in a surprise move at its opening ceremony, the tower was renamed Burj Khalifa, said to honour the UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan for his crucial support.[16]
Due to the slumping demand in Dubai's property market, the rents in the Burj Khalifa plummeted 40% some ten months after its opening. Out of 900 apartments in the tower, around 825 were still empty at that time.[17][18]
When he visited the manual labor construction workers were forced to stay on-site, and they'd alternate on 10 hour shifts. You could choose to use most of your day's wages to rent out room and board (workers made US $15/day, rent was $12/day) in temporary bunkers that were kept on the construction site. Or if you wanted to actually save any sort of money, you could literally sleep in a ditch that was across the street from where the tower was being built. Most workers would take the room and food one night out of three, and then sleep in the ditch for the other two. The workers aren't allowed to leave the camps or talk with Dubai citizens.
The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) is a new railway tunnel beneath the Swiss Alps, expected to open in 2016.[3] With a route length of 57 km (35.4 mi) and a total of 151.84 km (94.3 mi) of tunnels, shafts and passages,[2] it is the world's longest rail tunnel, surpassing the Japanese Seikan Tunnel.
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The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel (首都圏外郭放水路 shutoken gaikaku hōsuiro?), also known as the G-Cans Project, is an underground water infrastructure project in Kasukabe, Saitama, Japan built for preventing overflow of the city's major waterways and rivers during rain and typhoon seasons.
Work on the project started in 1992; it consists of five concrete containment silos with heights of 65 m and diameters of 32 m, connected by 6.4 km of tunnels, 50 m beneath the surface, as well as a large water tank with a height of 25.4 m, with a length of 177 m, with a width of 78 m, and with 59 massive pillars connected to a number of 10 MW pumps that can pump up to 200 tons of water into the Edogawa River per second.
Central control room
The G-Cans project is also a tourist attraction, and can be visited for free; however, as the tours are conducted in Japanese, a Japanese speaker must be present in the group to act as a translator for non-Japanese speakers.
[edit]In media
The main water tank resembles a temple and has been used in some movies and TV programs to create mystic scenes. In 2006, a Land Rover television commercial and print campaign was produced using G-Cans as a location.[citation needed]
Also the ROM is lousy gallery space. The heating/ventilation don't work right, the lighting is bad, it's hard to put things on the wall when the walls are all ////// \\\\\\\\
edit: the only Gehry building I like is the EMP in Seattle (which Dru posted above). It looks like a smashed guitar from above which is what he was using as inspiration. All his stuff is ridiculously inefficient.
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HOW DARE YOU
Where are you, we are invading
Go take over China.
Dubai is a shithole
oh certainly
I mean if you're a rich oil prince it's not bad
but if you're an indentured migrant worker oh man are you screwed
Pretty much this. All that awesome shit you see in Dubai is built by the thousands of Indian immigrants working for pennies on the dollar, living in tenants, basically stuck in the city because they either can't afford to leave or they have their passports forcibly taken from them.
e: welp should have refreshed
When he visited the manual labor construction workers were forced to stay on-site, and they'd alternate on 10 hour shifts. You could choose to use most of your day's wages to rent out room and board (workers made US $15/day, rent was $12/day) in temporary bunkers that were kept on the construction site. Or if you wanted to actually save any sort of money, you could literally sleep in a ditch that was across the street from where the tower was being built. Most workers would take the room and food one night out of three, and then sleep in the ditch for the other two. The workers aren't allowed to leave the camps or talk with Dubai citizens.
The rooms look like this:
But I do admire their interest in creating a spectacle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel
that reminds me of
G CANS
G-Cans project in Tokyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skp81uz8ZL8
edit: and also thanks Rolo
As it is wet, cold, and there is quite a bit of a smell.
So it's like having sex with Keith?
well now I look dumb
thanks a lot Dru
Denver Art Museum
the inside looks like you're in a giant wooden ship
Daniel Liebeskind is kind of a one-trick pony. He did the ROM in Toronto, too:
edit: the only Gehry building I like is the EMP in Seattle (which Dru posted above). It looks like a smashed guitar from above which is what he was using as inspiration. All his stuff is ridiculously inefficient.
That's kind of like
the Royal Ontario Musem
Which is a few blocks from me
There's actually a lot of this going down in Toronto.
The Art Gallery of Ontario, which is literally across the street from where I live.
and then this silly ass building
OCAD, which is where I went to school.
About this: Mr. Gehry once said that it “looks like a party of drunken robots got together to celebrate.”
That's what Gehry does! I think some parallel lines killed his parents or something.
I live two blocks from here
Denver has some decent architecture for being in the middle of nowhere
The cash register is the most obvious
And the airport
But there's also cool stuff like the bear at the convention center
a giant blue bear peering into that building
huh
Stupid 'no shirt, no shoes' rule.
It's ok, I'll have fun watching everyone else have fun.
out here.
in the cold.
alone."