迪拜未来与现实交错点.docVIP

迪拜未来与现实交错点 　　迪拜,如我的一个同事所言,是“世界建筑创意的试炼场”。任何最新颖,最夸张,最古怪的建筑创意都可以在迪拜这个地方得到一一实现。摩天大楼比比皆是,各类主题公园更是不在话下――迪拜把许多的“世界第一”尽收囊中。在“宏大即是美丽”的生活哲学体系下,那里的“人”不过是不起眼的、用来装点衬托迪拜的饰品罢了。我原以为在迪拜可以领略到的是动画片《阿拉丁》里面展现的那些充满阿拉伯风情的圆顶建筑和美景,殊不知那一切正在起吊机的轰鸣声中黯然倒塌。 　　――Mac 　　 　　I don’t mean to sound like an undergrad philosophy major, but in Dubai I have no choice. Again and again, I find myself pondering the nature of reality. Sure, the city is a real place populated by real people―1.32 million, last anyone checked. But it has the look and feel of fiction, like a landscape inside a computer game. 2)Bizarre objects 3)pop up at odd 4)intervals. As it turns out, some of the astonishing sights I’m hoping to see simply don’t exist and likely never will. Missing in action is the Dynamic Tower, an 80-story building in which each individual floor revolves 360 degrees―like a quavering stack of hotel cocktail 5)lounges―and generates energy as it turns. Indeed, Dubai, fiercely sunny, dusty, and 6)sprawling, can be as 7)disillusioning as Las Vegas when the neon signs are off. Most of the newer buildings 8)hew close to the Sheikh Zayed strip, a straight line stretching all the way to 9)Abu Dhabi, originally laid through uninhabited desert. 10)Novelty high-rises face off across six lanes of traffic like opposing pieces in a 11)wacky chess set. There are developments under way the size of whole cities, like 12)Waterfront, an urban habitat for 1.5 million people, with a Manhattan-inspired downtown planned with the help of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. And there’s Bawadi, a six-mile-long entertainment district with 51 new hotels, including Asia Asia, predicted to be the world’s largest, with 6,500 rooms. And there’s Business Bay, a new central district with 220 skyscrapers going up all at once. 　　 　　What I keep hearing during my visit is that the Dubai I can see is nothing compared with the Dubai that will soon emerge. Half of what’s printed on the map isn’t really here yet; vast tracts are marked u/c, meaning “