you can’t stop progress

Actually, I’m torn about whether building skyscrapers and other outlandish structures on a foundation of sand in the Persian Gulf is progress, but I am drawn to pictures of Dubai.

The Burj Dubai tower rises in Dubai. The world’s tallest building since July 2007, it has also become the tallest free-standing structure on earth.

Here’s one more:

And here’s a totally mind-blowing one. Picture this: your own private island in a new world—and it’s not in Second Life, either:

The same company that brought us The Palm Islands, Al Nakheel Properties (Nakheel Corp), have done it again expanding their portfolio of man-made islands with this latest Dubai island project shaped like the continents of the world. The World will consist of between 250 to 300 smaller private artifical islands divided into four categories - private homes, estate homes, dream resorts, and community islands. Each island will range from 250,000 to 900,000 square feet in size, with 50 to 100 metres of water between each island. The development is to cover an area of 9 kilometers in length and 6 kilometers in width, surrounded by an oval shaped breakwater. The only means of transportation between the islands will be by marine transport.