Comments on: In Teetering Dubai, A New Metro And World’s Tallest Building Are About To Debut (Photo Tour)

By: laurenandoliver

laurenandoliver — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:44:34 +0000

You should all stop complaining about Dubai, i have been going there for nearly four years now and from my personal experience it is a breath taking city, and the people are the friendliest people i have ever come across! they never leave a project unfinished and anybody who say they do have obviously never visited the place! Most people complain because there jealous of others wealth and fortune, also somebody complained about the men and women having to go into different swimming pools but they obviously forgot to mention that there are also mixed ones! they have separate pools because others wish for privacy, i just think its about time that people should start respecting different religions. The Americans should just accept that they are no longer the most powerful country!! However i do strongly advise anybody who hasn’t been to dubai to go and visit!

By: R1Concepts Brakes

R1Concepts Brakes — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:58:35 +0000

Oh Dubai I wish they could just finish all of these projects so we can see what we want to see and not an abandonment of many projects leaving it to look like a pretentious city.

By: Erik Nilsson

Erik Nilsson — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:33:58 +0000

Um, actually Dubai’s oil revenue has been gone for a while. Dubai’s economy is mostly based on banking. Of course, Dubai’s predicament is predictable: only fools would base economic growth on imaginary growth from banking scams. Oh, wait….

By: Fergie348

Fergie348 — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:58:11 +0000

Check out these two, poaching a base jump off the Burj Khalifa..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pGp1LX8yZY&feature=related

By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:20:25 +0000

Someone also said that dubai was built from slave labour, right? Well if it wasn’t for them workers, none of it would be there so be grateful about it. And if your not happy, move on with your life. I think dubai is great! (with all there problems of course just like every dubai city.)

By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:13:02 +0000

Stop complaining about dubai. Because take it from my own experience that moving to other cities after dubai then you will see how lucky you were in dubai. Sure I agree that everything isn’t perfect but in a short time spam look at all the wonderful things dubai has and many other cities don’t have.

You guys should all stop complaining and appreciate what you have ’cause one day you’ll regret it.

By: hey dudes

hey dudes — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:55:45 +0000

This building has some issues coming!!!! Mark my WORDS!!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:01:29 +0000

I’m sure my wife will appreciate sitting in the back of the shiny new subway (with the kids and the poors) while I recline up front with the important and powerful men. Also, can we offer the poors cheaper tickets to lay on the roof and shield my rich leather ass from the harsh desert sun? Perfect!

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By: param

param — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:41:09 +0000

the makers heart is more bigger then this building , the maker the worker all who work there have loin heart there bravery is bigger then this tower but they done the wonderful job , thanks

By: Amir

Amir — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:15:02 +0000

I have to agree with you Steve….
Hassan,
its not good to lie about the health care, salary, or any benefit that workers from abroad are receiving. These workers in Dubai are slave workers who were lured to Dubai with promises. Dubai was built with SLAVE LABOUR !!

By: pranjal

pranjal — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:36:12 +0000

wow!!!!!!! great ..
Excellent Tower…hats off!!

By: Jaco

Jaco — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:36:00 +0000

I used to see the Burj while in my bed, from my room wish I still lived in Dxb to see the opening!

By: sonny threatt

sonny threatt — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:42:34 +0000

On a recent trip to London I was surprised to see that the best dollars to pounds exchange rate I saw was the Bank of Dubai- much better than British banks. That left a good impression on me. It seems that most of the Arab world wants to channel their money and energy into joining civilization as opposed to distroying it. The recent large projects that Dubai has completed shows over a billion people in the region that the greatness of Arab culture is in front of them. I definately support their efforts-

By: nazeer ahamed

nazeer ahamed — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:48:49 +0000

very very wunderful city dubai

By: Fuckallthehaters

Fuckallthehaters — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:34:28 +0000

The way i see things are a lot different than some of the hypocrites talking bad of Dubai! If they have the money to spend than build it! i think that all that Architecture is awesome and as a Construction worker i would love to see some here in the United States but i guess were no longer building like that cause our financial fall and debt! i trully feel that our time has come to let others lead the way and show us what they are capable of doing, so keep on building beautiful buildings and stay creative and the only reason why this world is all fucked up is because we have people that hate on others fortunes and wealth and i hope they all shut the fuck up and learn from other cultures that have so much to teach us! If you dont have anything nice to say than shut up you stupid ignorant no education having minimum wage idiot! shut up!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:12:23 +0000

Looks very interesting. I would love to go there.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:41:53 +0000

Sci-fi movies were cool, but the reality is just horrible. I guess they are preparing for tourism instead of oil business. Oil is running out.
I wouldn’t go there as a tourist, I rather visit Paris or Rome or Milano or Budapest, or even a smaller town or just spend the holidays to the mountainside - it’s much more romantic. That tower is grose.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:18:33 +0000

Ha! A horrific, disgusting and greedy country - bound to fall.

How can anyone possibly see anything different? How many millions are starving and these people spend money like this ??? The GREED, the indecency.

Just plain horrific and what I expect from Islamic dictators.

I would be ashamed to be a citizen of that country. I’d take off and never tell anyone where I was from if I had the unfortunate luck to be born there.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:51:25 +0000

Makes me sick to think its all built with money for oil that destroys the planet as we use it…nice to look at…a glimmer of hope in an otherwise waste of space on the planet Earth…

By: Eracer

Eracer — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:07:26 +0000

Dubai…Dubai…Dubai, noting there….come to Chennai…feel the hot chicks and cool aunties

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:04:31 +0000

I Love the look of what Dubai has built and it looks very modern but if you want tourist to come most may not like the swimming pool rules or separate trains for rich or poor. I myself would love to visit.

By: Torgo

Torgo — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:40:02 +0000

I love the Burj Dubai. It’s just so insane!

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:35:24 +0000

I can’t wait to NOT go there. You know whats really fun? Going for a swim in the hotel pool by yourself because your wife is a women and has to swim seperately.

Do they really think people are going to visit Dubai?

By: MintMeng

MintMeng — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:55:11 +0000

Alas all that glitters is for show. The show is coming to an end. Those who participated in the show Good luck. The day of recogning
dawns on Dubai.

By: akbar

akbar — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:33:06 +0000

fascinating dubai!.. marvellous huge constructoins… its a dimond city of middle east.
already its name is known for its artificial island construction.In obvious, for an another time its name came for the world’s tallest building!..
its a workstation for many citizens of countries including india, pakistan, bangladesh, srilanka, indonesia etc.,
but islamic point of view only one thing is to say ‘i think weh’v reached the kiyaamah (end of the world)……..’

By: tony

tony — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:39:03 +0000

dubai looks awesome especially for the f1 race…They built a whole track just to host a race….awesome….i just wish they let hot girls show there faces and welcomed strip clubs….That’s were they fuck up…everything is modern and cool except how they don’t let girls out in public without wraping them up like some sort of slaves….let women show there t and a for c sakes….

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:48:15 +0000

I’ve been to Dubai during my first cruise aboard the Harry Truman and I would do anything to live there. It is such a fascinating and modern place. It really will explode over the next few years. It’s just hard to convince westerners to move there, well at least most Americans anyway. I loved it, but that’s just me.

By: Bombdubai

Bombdubai — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:31:49 +0000

Materialistic egotistical fuckin idiots - there is NOTHING exciting about Dubai!!!! It is EGO at it’s worst, and i agree, it’s a disgusting display of wealth and stupidity!!! I wish the city an early earthquake! And believe me, it’s coming……who’ll be laughing then?

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By: sajid

sajid — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:22:16 +0000

Please stop the construction of Arab Towers.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:32:04 +0000

While your’s at it, why don’t you get “Honest Hassan” to explain the dhimmi to you!

By: Tan The Man

Tan The Man — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:13:29 +0000

Why aren’t all of the stations, and the entire track for that matter, underground? Wouldn’t that also reduce energy costs for the A/C?

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:57:36 +0000

Those pictures were actually shot by a friend of mine who now lives in Dubai, I knew him when we both used to live in Bahrain. His pictures can be found at http://www.momentaryawe.com/.

By: цarьchitect

цarьchitect — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:28:43 +0000

Look at the cable safety barrier in the middle of that road and tell me it’s beautiful.