Black Gold project imagines oil tankers as iconic Arabic architecture
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Adam WilliamsArchitectural projects based on shipping containers are one thing, but what about a project that uses an entire ship?
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Dubai Plans to Build the World's First Temperature-Controlled City
• slate.comThis month Dubai announced grandiose plans to build "the world's first temperature-controlled city, Mall of the World" in the Al Sufouh district.
Dubai to build climate-controlled 'city', largest mall
• yahoo.comDubai is planning to build a temperature-controlled city featuring the world's largest mall and an indoor park, as well as hotels, health resorts and theatres, the developer said.
Sri Lankan apartment block to be world's tallest vertical garden
• gizmag.comClearpoint Residencies, based in Kotte just outside Colombo, will be the first sustainable high-rise apartment complex in the country, with solar panels for electricity generation, a waste water recycling system and planted facades.
A look into India's first shipping container home (Video)
• treehugger.comRemade into housing, pop-up shopping plazas and funhouses, shipping container architecture is so trendy nowadays that they are even making knock-offs in China.
The world's tallest building and Dubai's skyscrapers poke through thick fog
• http://www.telegraph.co.ukThe world's tallest building, the 2,700ft-high Burj Khalifa, appears through a carpet of fog as the lights from Dubai's shops and apartments illuminate the low cloud from below
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