Sunday, June 15, 2008

via Pete Takeshi: Mall of misfortune

I think this is the website for South China Mall. Also from the article:

Consider the mall-building craze underway in the Emirates. Its largest shopping center, the 2.4-million-square-foot Mall of the Emirates, is only three years old, but will relinquish its throne this year to the even bigger Dubai Mall – which in turn will be superseded in 2010 by the gargantuan Mall of Arabia. (Together, the three properties will contain about 10 million square feet of leasable space – more than two square feet for every resident of the country.) And it’s not enough for a 21st-century mall to have shops; it must also have gondolas, trams, water slides, “Olympic-sized” hockey rinks, ice palaces or – in the case of the Dubai Mall – one of the world’s largest aquariums, to be filled with 41,000 fish.
Almost as bad as the artificial islands being built off Dubai and the UAE.
Futurism: Terraforming Dubai's Next Artificial Island City
The Palm Island/Islands Dubai [Jumeirah, Jebel Ali & Deira] - TEN ...
The World Islands [Dubai] - Property Development - TEN Real Estate ...
dubai islands
World Islands - Dubai's Groundbreaking Megaproject is Completed
Dubai's artificial islands have high environmental cost

Such a scandalous squandering of the wealth that they have gained through the sale of petroleum.

Check out DeadMalls.com. Vallco/Cupertino Square isn't on it yet.

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