Insert Memory Card: Dubai in 20 hours

I just spent a deliriously saturated day in the surreal city of Dubai.

   

A city where the colonnades are embedded with glitter (seriously)

and all that is solid melts into gold...

 A city where the new

 trumps the old

 and progress starts at the 124th floor

a city where (with a big enough wallet) you can manifest an Alpine village

 

or make it rain men (you know you've always wanted to)

A place where the mall and mosque become one in the same

and the end of the line is always in sight...

Alice in Wonderland Meets German Engineering

    Here is a mind-bending look at the new Massimiliano Fuksas mall
    for your viewing pleasure. If strawberries and cream
    (and a lot of faceted glass) could manifest into a building,
    I think it would look very similar to this....

 

looking good, Frankfurt!