Dubai vs World

I am a mad fella when come to building, architectural and interior design (though my room look like rubbish). For that reason, I do keep myself updated about the new building structure and design and making sure I was well updated with the newest building ranking (tallest building, best property developer, etc etc...). With this simple fond interest, I joined SP Setia as it was one of the pioneers in so call the “designer house” where each house has its own characteristic and nice design.

Dubai is a place famous for its architectural design and technology. In 1990, Dubai, a land with almost nothing is now growing like no body business. Is like what the Chinese said, ‘like bamboo shoot growing after the rain’ or simply what we all call as mushrooming crazily.

Frankly speaking, I think Dubai is places for crazy fella like me who have deep interest on building….Who don’t? Don’t you think those small model houses are so cute and lovely?

Dubai is now a well integrated city with almost everything under the roof. They have the tallest building in the world (Burj Dubai). And to make sure no other country surpass this title, Dubai wil have another taller structure (Al-Burj) going to take the place of Burj Dubai. Yes! Dubai is going to have 1st and 2nd Tallest Building dude!!! While other country are trying to beat this height, it is now seem impossible. The height goes as high as 1200m...

Wondering the hot climate in Dubai is going to spoil the mood of tourist? Worry no more, the new Dubai Ski, one of the largest ski arenas is there and if you have not enough, try the newest refrigerated beach…A beach specialized man make to enable the temperature control by the computer…Great!

Dubailand, the integrated theme park double the size of Disneyland…Is that awesome?

Row and row of high rise building at Dubai’s street will turn human as small as an ant. There is over hundred of building with more than 70 storeys high.

If you think your leg can help you in shopping at Midvalley, be sure you can do that also in Dubai Mall, World Largest Shopping Mall

Dubai also already has the Palm shaped island, a human made island that can be visible from the space and what the crazy things is that they don’t just have one, nor two but three palm shaped man made island! and if that is not enough, how about 300 man build island shaped to the map of the world!!!

Dubai waterfront is the largest waterfront development ever built.

But all this things come with a high tag price. Besides from the billion, trillion or maybe zillion amount of investment, it also comes with high risk of global warming. The energy consumption and use of natural resources seem to be threatening.

While most country are moving to greener building just like SP Setia Eco Park that use solar generated panel, Dubai seem to be moving another way. Imagine how much energy is use to refrigerate a beach? How about how many glasses use in the high rise building that will generate unnecessary heat in the earth. If Petronas twin tower is once argued for not environmental friendly as used too many glasses, how about Dubai? Dubai man made island also destroy the original landscape of the earth and Dubai underwater hotel might destroy the ecosystem of the sea. So much to argue, that even the firework display during the opening ceremony of Jumeirah Beach hotels lately which claim to be visible from the moon is also consider one of the reason why Dubai is consider to be not global warming conscious.

So much as the structure and design that amaze me, so much more that I am concern about the earth climate. Bravo to Dubai, Boo to Dubai as well.

Here are some ideas on making Dubai a more sustainable city. Since Dubai is so rich, and is located along the beaches, why not use wave power generation to generate electricity. Hot weather mean lot of sunlight, so go green by using solar power. Each building should have a solar panel to generate power. Wind generator can be added to the roof top of all building and places near the beach. Beside from its usefulness to generate electric it can also be an attraction….

Though glass on tall building can cause global warming, hopefully it can reduce the electricity consumption as there is no need so much lighting during the day. Water feature such as fountain should be use as natural cooler rather than air-condition.

Plant more trees at the roof of the building or at least at any balcony so it can beautified the building and yet more green.

Dubai does amaze me. A land with nothing much at the beginning been transforming to a heaven for the rich. Investment from all over the world pouring into Dubai making Dubai a successful and great city after all. So looking back at what they have in 20 years, what we in Malaysia have? Yup, our only pride is Petronas Twin Tower, the ex-tallest building in the world….We so proud that even it was not the tallest building ever build in mankind history but we are still the tallest twin tower in the world…awaiting Dubai to broke this title… While Dubai have Dubailand we have our new Legoland in JB…Legoland? never heard before?...We have once the best F-1 race circuit and self-proclaim best F1 race circuit till now as if to compare to Singapore cost saving on the road F1….



So the end what else we have since all our collection seem losing their title….Yeah! We still have our proud and pride of the nation!
The only moveable Eye on Malaysia (name also copy Eye of London).