The hills of the sloping shores of Dubai are alive. Alive with the sound of cranes and jackhammers, construction of all types. The skyscraper frenzy in the altitudes of Dubai surpasses New York in the 1930’s. The palm trees, the speed boats, the burr of the best vehicles (in the road, air, and seas) that money can buy. And there is an urban population density that is skyrocketing logarhythmically.
Those returning to the region from a few years’ absence drop their jaws. This is not the sleepy city by the sea anymore. Dubai is located in the center of the world’s wealthiest areas and is considered by many to be the fastest expanding real estate nexus. Midway between the Far East and Europe, it accords luxury travelers, businesspeople, and global residents a respectable residence address that is neither east nor West. Becoming a citizen of Dubai may be the next benchmark of having “arrived”.
Homo Sapiens have always measured their achievements by their cities. By their magnificent monuments, temples, boulevards, and residences. Structures such as those found in London, Paris, Rome or even New York, signal a sophistication and civic statement made about the wealth, power, and global outreach these cities have or did have when they were young.
Tokyo and Geneva, Moscow and Rio de Janeiro, all these have signature skylines and globally recognizable outlines, even from space. Just to speak the name of cities such as Florence and Venice evokes an awe directed at the achievement they such cities were built at all. Ancient cities, such as Macchu Picchu, Jerusalem, and temples in the East transport the visitor into fantasy of lost time and unknown civilization.
A city made of tall towers rivals the ambition of Venice, of Rome, of London, Paris, Tokyo or New York. The skyline of Dubai is leaping upward at a genie’s pace to match demand.
Dubai property is in the future of its tall towers. No mere fad or fashion in resort living defines itself as Dubai has, in so short a time.
Dubai wars the flexible imprint of the modern city in a global age with new era technologies blended with classic luxury and the type of interior design that creates its own school. Bragging rights have begun a new era. Offshore is the new black.
Written by Page Howe. Page Howe bears no affliation with Dubai Select. The views expressed are purely his own.
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