I have just arrived in Dubai, and on my first day back, I opened the newspaper (Gulf News) to find this report in a section called "Landmark Development". I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before, but it's the first time I hear of it. There was also an image with it but I can't scan or photograph it at the moment since everyone is sleeping and my luggage hasn't arrived yet. Anyway, here it is (please tell me it's a joke):

Bubble City: Amazing new Dubai project launched

Following the creation of some of the world's most remarkable landmarks, Dubai is all set for yet another path breaking project. This time not on earth or on water but in the skies. The Bubble City will be a suspended architectural marvel, stationed 200 metres above the ground, powered by two mammoth helium balloons and an anti-gravity reaction motor. Designed to look like an air bubble, the Bubble City will be a transparent enclosure made of reinforced glass and specialised fibre. The concept will house restaurants, theme parks and museums along with a few exclusive conference venues. Randomly placed hydraulic oxygen vents will make atmospheric oxygen available for use inside, through pressure balancing that doesn't jeopardise the existence of the bubble.

Another ground breaking feature of the city is that the entire city will be powered by solar energy. Heavy duty solar cells for this purpose are already in the process of development. The Bubble City is deemed to be one of its kind; a new chapter in modern architecture and town planning. The estimated cost for this mammoth venture is US$ 30 billion. The Bubble City is the costliest proposition till date. A panel of award winning international architects and structural engineers has prepared the blue print for this amazing new city.

Bubble City? What the....

That TOO much, even for Dubai.

it was a joke to promote the Res at DIFC
under the title "Projects that are to good to be true , To see some thing that is to good to be True Res@DIFC"

http://www.xpphotoalbum.com/data/500/3820launch_07.jpg
The Residences in Dubai International Financial Centre

http://www.xpphotoalbum.com/data/500/3820damacdifclocation.jpg
Location of The Residences in Dubai International Financial Centre

LOL you never guess at my work
a guy here project manager had heard about this project seems its make some gossip still as a real project ! I mean don't people read the small print. Trouble is these people tell some else and on it goes. So any way project manager at my work was convinced it was real and some the company shooed attempt to bid on !
I told him. I should have kept my mouth shut and seen how far it all went

hehehehe would have been fun to watch him go about it!!!
:)

http://www.xpphotoalbum.com/data/500/3820launch_07.jpg
What is the status of that, proposed or u/c??

Those two "Swiss re" sisters is really a beauty, i actually belives that those two will become ever nicer and more spectacular than Swiss Re Headquarters.:happy:

Is it approved/ proposed/ vision or under construction?

approved !
The desgin is a concept but is very similar to the finished project !
The land is purchased of the DIFC and cleared and awaits final desgin so ground can be broken !

approved !
The desgin is a concept but is very similar to the finished project !
The land is purchased of the DIFC and cleared and awaits final desgin so ground can be broken !

yiiipppiii.....:happy:

The Residences in Dubai International Financial Centre are really cool. A bit similar to SwissRe indeed.

approved?

approved?

Pfft.

Have you been on the green Krazy?

^^ It seems worse (perhaps injections)

Very nice project, a new concept of construction.

no mate this project is a fake project .. i think it was a part of a campain or something and to be honest the civil engineering technology has failed yet to reach this advance level of technology :)

in 2020 maybe ? *shrug*

Very nice project, a new concept of construction.

everything is nice in your view :lol:, u r so optimistic.

http://www.adp-site.org/abudhabi/media/DSC00373_01.jpg

wasnt this a joke, just to show the extent of what people would believe our of Dubai's projects