BYLinda Tischler Relevancy Score: 100 Tue Jun 12, 2007 at 1:00 PM
Forget strife in the Middle East: The biggest story right now in Dubai is real estate. To start, there's the most mind-boggling housing project is on the planet, the The Palm, the luxury home development made by dredging sand from ...READ»
BYClay Dillow Relevancy Score: 100 Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 10:22 AM
Dubai, like Las Vegas, is a city of excess in the middle of a desert. But with the ungodly height of the 159-story (and growing) Burj Dubai, the unnatural symmetry of The Palm Jumeirah islands and the unabashed extravagance of the ...READ»
BYRuth Sherman Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 6:13 PM
I returned recently from a business trip to Dubai where I worked on a communications project with a private equity company. This is a fascinating country – city-state, really – with many contradictions. Since it is so widely ...READ»
BYLinda Tischler Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Jun 11, 2007 at 4:29 PM
If you enjoy the smog of LA, the traffic of Washington DC’s Beltway at rush hour, the blistering heat of Orlando in August, the retail pizzazz of the Mall of America, the cultural attractions of Midland, Texas, and the sensitive ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Nov 2, 2009 at 5:39 PM
In the face of a flailing economy and dwindling tourist dollars, Dubai presses on--this time with the Death Star-like Technosphere, a solar-powered biological bubble that will simulate the effects of climate change.
The massive ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Oct 8, 2009 at 3:48 PM
In the United Arab Emirates, Dubai has always maintained a reputation as the center of excess and oil money gone awry, while Abu Dhabi's Masdar City has emerged as the UAE's sustainable core. But Dubai's developers might be ...READ»
Masdar City, a planned zero-emissions cleantech hub in the middle of Abu Dhabi, announced this weekend that it will raise between $300 and $500 million. Today Masdar announced even more significant news--the city is building the ...READ»
BYSaabira Chaudhuri Relevancy Score: 94 Tue Dec 16, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Yesterday, Emirates Airlines launched what it calls the world's longest "green" flight -- a new service from Dubai to San Francisco that saves an estimated 2,000 gallons of fuel and 30,000 pounds of carbon emissions on the 16-hour ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 93 Mon Aug 31, 2009 at 8:07 AM
Dubai's reign as a "symbol of crazed civic ambition" is over, but the United Arab Emirates is still planning to play host to Masdar City, the first large-scale carbon-neutral development in the world. Now the UAE has selected ...READ»
BYZachary Wilson Relevancy Score: 92 Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 5:21 PM
They had everything they needed: Space, money, time, workers, tourists, big brands, and, perhaps most importantly, hype. Just a few years ago, the developers of Dubailand--an enormous $64 billion, 107-square-mile mega-theme ...READ»
BYLinda Tischler Relevancy Score: 90 Wed Jun 13, 2007 at 11:00 AM
It's true what you've read: Dubai is like no other place on earth. I had a wonderful time. But I won’t be one of those folks urging vacationers to check out the all-inclusive deals on Travelocity.
For one thing, for six months ...READ»
BYCliff Kuang Relevancy Score: 88 Fri May 15, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Images of the futuristic architecture being planned for Dubai and Abu Dhabi conjure an era before the economic meltdown--what will happen to all those construction cranes sitting prone in the desert now? It turns out that a ...READ»
Six high-rise towers by eight renowned architects. Sixty-seven acres on the Vegas strip. Casinos, hotels, condos, theaters, galleries, and a shopping mall. It sounds worthy of once-booming Dubai, and for good reason: Dubai World, the ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 82 Thu May 28, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Most companies are cowering in fear at the thought of unpredictable global-warming-related weather events, but the dredging industry, at least, is set to benefit from rising seas. The Flemish newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen reports ...READ»
The French capital's prêt-à-porter week may be a magnet for snooty
designers and buyers with wallets the size of Vuitton trunks. But
cities with less history as hubs of couture have tried lately to grab some glamour
by staging ...READ»
BYLinda Tischler Relevancy Score: 64 Fri Dec 5, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Americans may be in a state of gloom about the economy, but it's still a beautiful day in the neighborhood, if you live next door to Sheik Majed Al-Sabah.READ»
What's happening this month: Shiny new airport terminals in London and Beijing take off; why baseball's first pitch is in Tokyo; and Austin's South by Southwest by the numbers.READ»
BY Theunis Bates Relevancy Score: 57 Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 11:27 AM
Barcelona is the place for executives to talk shop -- from green packaging to worldwide economic worries -- April 9-11. We asked five attendees to tell us what's on their agendas, besides tapas.READ»
