World’s Tallest Building, Indoor Ski Mountain, Manmade Islands and… A Model of Green Design?
The Emirati city of Abu Dhabi is often overlooked, eclipsed in world news by the glitz and glamour of its neighbor Dubai. While the latter certainly provides the more jolting example, in reality both have become experimental playgrounds of architectural extravagance in the oil-rich Middle East.
In perhaps the first foray of this scale by a hydrocarbon-producing state into sustainable energy, groundbreaking was scheduled today for the crowning achievement of Abu Dhabi’s Masdar Initiative. Masdar City, a solar-powered and nearly self-contained community where your produce comes from the greenhouse down the way and your wheels are no good, aims to be home to 50,000 residents by 2016. It is hoped that Masdar will become a "hub for academic and corporate research on nonpolluting energy technologies".
Check out the second link for a virtual tour of Masdar City and an accompanying NY Times blog.
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