Comments on: Seeing double in Dubai https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/seeing-double-in-dubai/ Gardenvisit.com Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:25:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/seeing-double-in-dubai/#comment-980 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:25:15 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-980 True. Wondering what the new ‘green’ landscape might be….Perhaps it will be blue/green – turquoise: ie with rising seas levels potentially there will be renewed interest in water gardens and the management of tides within landscape settings? [http://www.gardensbythebay.org.sg/?p=section&sub=article&articlegrppk=31&articlepk=100]

Perhaps, each culture has something particular to contribute from its own cultural history?

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/seeing-double-in-dubai/#comment-979 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:05:24 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-979 They are fabulous architectural projects – but I have the impression that the outdoor space in which they will be set both un-interesting, un-Arabian and un-environmental. We could call it unspace! And we could pronounce it either un-space or U-N-space (since the character is United Nations International).

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/seeing-double-in-dubai/#comment-978 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:00:18 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-978 Sorry to give that impression.

In Dubai there are definitely some interesting eco-projects on the drawingboard/computer screen! which are creating for Dubai a reputation for being on the edge of green design.[http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/20-eco-structures-that-defy-conventions/]

Perhaps one of the most inspiring contemporary projects in Abu Dhabi [http://www.gowealthy.com/gowealthy/wcms/en/home/real-estate/property-digest/october/New-realty-developments-in-Abu-1222934028466.html]is the Louvre Museum which is not only stunningly contemporary but also reflects Arabia’s cultural (rather than urban) heritage. [http://freshome.com/2009/06/02/nouvel%E2%80%99s-lighting-scheme-in-the-louvre-abu-dhabi/].

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/seeing-double-in-dubai/#comment-977 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:02:28 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-977 Abu Dhabi is said to be better than Dubai, as well as richer, but this photograph does a great job of making it look like a second rate American city. What happened to Arabia’s proud urban heritage?

PS thank you for a link to a good post on Japanese gardens – though it is much better on Japanese gardens in England than on Japanese gardens in Japan.

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/seeing-double-in-dubai/#comment-976 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:56:36 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-976 Abu Dhabi is said to be better than Dubai, as well as richer, but this photograph does a great job of making it look like a second rate American city. What happened to Arabia’s proud urban heritage?

]]> By: Japan » Japanese Waste of the talent. | Mon Amour https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/seeing-double-in-dubai/#comment-975 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:11:31 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-975 […] Seeing double in Dubai | Gardenvisit.com BlogWhen Japan finally opened up to foreigners in 1854 after being “impenetrable to the western world” the fascination with Japanese gardens immediately made itself felt within English high culture and by the beginning of the twentieth … […]

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