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The Dubai Death Star
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/557a6061-9e3b-47e9-9965-c9e7c5eb77dd/84843E19-CF5B-4B70-8B69-9824E5C8D89A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/03/rem_koolhaas_does_death_star_a.html" href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/03/rem_koolhaas_does_death_star_a.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/03/rem_koolhaas_does_death_star_a.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.guardian.co.uk/img/9F751EB2-EB8C-4883-8B0B-841439E8BD4F" alt="Waterfront City" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/03/rem_koolhaas_does_death_star_a.html"><DIV><SMALL>An artist's impression of Koolhaas' proposed city in Dubai, left, and the Death Star in Star Wars.</SMALL></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/03/rem_koolhaas_does_death_star_a.html">is Rem Koolhaas, of the <A href="http://www.oma.eu/">Office of Metropolitan Architecture</A>, planning to build a a gargantuan 44-storey replica of the Death Star as a corner-piece for his planned city in Dubai?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/03/rem_koolhaas_does_death_star_a.html">According to his office, the enormous sphere will be part of a masterplan for <A href="http://www.oma.eu/index.php?option=com_projects&view=portal&id=441&Itemid=10">his concept of "the generic city"</A>, which has <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/arts/design/03kool.html?_r=4&pagewanted=1&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">been described by the New York Times</A> as a "sprawling metropolis of repetitive buildings centered on an airport and inhabited by a tribe of global nomads with few local loyalties</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/03/rem_koolhaas_does_death_star_a.html">The building will act as a symbol for a 1.5bn-square-foot "global city</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/03/rem_koolhaas_does_death_star_a.html">promises to be home to 1.5 million inhabitants</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/03/rem_koolhaas_does_death_star_a.html">The sphere itself, with a telltale circular recess that looks like its been taken from George Lucas's drawing board, is conceived as a self-contained three-dimensional urban neighbourhood and will encase various public institutions in a series of smaller spheres suspended on the inside</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/84843E19-CF5B-4B70-8B69-9824E5C8D89A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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