Architectural Sandcastles From Las Vegas to Dubai – Architectural Record

CityCenter, Las Vegas; Pelli Clarke Pelli, Rafael Vinoly Architects, Studio Daniel Libeskind, Murphy/Jahn, KPF, Foster+Partners

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Architectural Record has published a number of interesting articles and slide shows reviewing the Burj Khalia in Dubai and the Las Vegas City Center looking at, among other things, lighting, construction and economics, notably the boom to bust global economic conditions more or less coinciding with the debut of construction of these two structures and their final completion dates.

LIGHTING

Burj Khalifa lighting, here.  (Slide show, here.)

Las Vegas City Center lighting, here.  (Slide show, here.)

PRODUCT REVIEW – Burj Khalifa, Dubai & CityCenter, Las Vegas

Slide show with detailed descriptions, here

ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY

“Beyond Limits”, by Josephine Minutillo, here.

“Burj Khalia, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM); The completion of the world’s tallest skyscraper raises intriguing questions about the significance of this gleaming, spiraling form.”, by Blair Kamin, here.

Adrian Smith website (Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture), here.

Perhaps not quite all-encompassing, but certainly with serious pretensions…

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The Economics of Response to Climate Change – The Dollars & Sense of Solutions to Global Warming

Photograph by Yoshikazu Nema; Artwork by Yuken Teruya

Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist (2008), in his wide-ranging, very precise and honestly excellent article, entitled “Building a Green Economy” in the Magazine section of The New York Times (online) discusses with astounding and very welcome clarity not only the truly catastrophic environmental and economic consequences of global warming but also, and more importantly, now, the clear, reasoned and viable economic measures that can, should and will, given the necessary political will, offer solutions to this extremely serious and far-reaching problem.  Krugman’s article is not short, and it, for reason, requires some thinking on the part of the reader, but it is definitely worth every minute that you spend reading it.

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The Economics of Response to Climate Change – The Dollars & Sense of Solutions to Global Warming

Photograph by Yoshikazu Nema; Artwork by Yuken Teruya

Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist (2008), in his wide-ranging, very precise and honestly excellent article, entitled “Building a Green Economy” in the Magazine section of The New York Times (online) discusses with astounding and very welcome clarity not only the truly catastrophic environmental and economic consequences of global warming but also, and more importantly, now, the clear, reasoned and viable economic measures that can, should and will, given the necessary political will, offer solutions to this extremely serious and far-reaching problem.  Krugman’s article is not short, and it, for reason, requires some thinking on the part of the reader, but it is definitely worth every minute that you spend reading it.

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