Some times I feel a bit silly putting some things up as most have been around publicly for some time.
But these are directly relevant to my work so I may as well.
So I’m not sure if you have come across these but :
This is a massive project over in the middle east.. really the scale is just un-imaginable. I have seen real scale models of the project and its just hard to comprehend the density, initiative and infrastructure that goes into something like this..
But it very much appear to be going ahead, and I’m sure that there are some very serious contracts that stipulate that it musty be built to certain speciation’s and essentially stand up to the claims that have been made...
i.e that it will be the world first carbon neutral city and that it will, in a nut shell, produce more energy than it consumes...
(Something that if you think about, is just a VERY cool/exciting/amazing idea)
Its definitely worth a look if you have the spare time..
I have only posted a small amount of information here, so more links are below:
Foster news announcement : www.fosterandpartners.com/News/291/Default.aspx accessed 16 September 2009
Press release as they “break ground” : http://www.anzses.org/files/Masdar.pdf accessed 16 September 2009
An Australian Business Review article from 2008 : http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,24676764-25658,00.html accessed on 16 September 2009
LAVA wins completion : http://www.e-architect.co.uk/dubai/masdar_design_competition.htm accessed 16 September 2009
Really, just Google or you tube it and remember that this is actually being built at scale and through to completion.
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