• Dubai building $1Bn Taj Mahal replica, calling it "Taj Arabia" and is bigger then the first.
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[QUOTE] [IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/63282000/jpg/_63282607_63282133.jpg[/IMG] [B]A $1bn (£621m) project to build a replica of the Taj Mahal has been unveiled in the Gulf emirate of Dubai.[/B] [B]The Taj Arabia complex would be much bigger than the original monument to love and include a 300-room hotel, shops and commercial buildings, developer Arun Mehra said.[/B] [B]It would be ready by 2014[/B] and be known as the "New City of Love", he said. The complex will also house other structures such as the Eiffel Tower, Pyramids and the Great Wall of China. The Taj Mahal, which is situated in the northern Indian town of Agra, is a Unesco World Heritage site. [B] It was completed more than 350 years ago by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a shrine for his wife Mumtaz and took more than 20 years to build.[/B] The white marble mausoleum, situated on the banks of the river Yamuna, is sometimes known as a teardrop on the cheek of time. [B]The Taj Arabia complex will be built around the Taj Mahal which is a "symbol of love and will include various facilities to encapsulate the beauty of life, love and romance mixed with the long established Mughal architecture", Mr Mehra, who is the chairman of Link Global Group, told the Press Trust of India. The developers say they hope that the Taj Arabia will become a new wedding destination and attract couples to it.[/B] An earlier plan to build the complex was shelved when the company was hit by the global economic downturn. [/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19825332"]bbc[/URL]
I bet it'll look gorgeous when finished.
[QUOTE=furious_d;37908618]I bet it'll look gorgeous when finished.[/QUOTE]It's not really a question of whether something built in Dubai looks nice, it's a question of whether there's enough people in the world who can afford to go there to justify it. [editline]4th October 2012[/editline] At this point, they've got so many nice buildings but so few people that it's more masturbation than business.
There are so many nice abandoned cars in Dubai of people who had to leave them and the country to avoid jail because they no longer had income to live there
[QUOTE=furious_d;37908618]I bet it'll look gorgeous [b]if[/b] finished.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;37908629]At this point, they've got so many nice buildings but so few people that it's more masturbation than business.[/QUOTE] Hasn't that always been the point of Dubai? Masturbating about how much money they have?
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;37908629]It's not really a question of whether something built in Dubai looks nice, it's a question of whether there's enough people in the world who can afford to go there to justify it. [editline]4th October 2012[/editline] At this point, they've got so many nice buildings but so few people that it's more masturbation than business.[/QUOTE] Not to mention the whole slave labor problem. Dubai really is fucking its self over unless a ton of rich people decide it's time to start investing in shit there.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMh-vlQwrmU[/media]
[QUOTE=dgg;37908754]Hasn't that always been the point of Dubai? Masturbating about how much money they have?[/QUOTE]Well to an extent, part of it was trying to entice other rich people to join in the circlejerk; they're not going to last much longer financially unless they can find enough of them to spend money there.
Why? Because Dubai.
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;37908659][/QUOTE] I was thinking that too. 2 years to building a massive complex like that? Yeah right.
India should sue them for trademark infringement. I mean how would you like it if some one made a full size replica of your national monument.
[QUOTE=fixture;37908770][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMh-vlQwrmU[/media][/QUOTE] Implying dubai is the only place that does this.
Misread Taj Mahal as Burj Dubai, I was notably distressed.
[QUOTE=Scot;37908954]Implying dubai is the only place that does this.[/QUOTE]The thread [I]is[/I] about Dubai; so naturally videos posted are about Dubai; I don't think he was implying it's the only place to do that.
[QUOTE=Scot;37908954]Implying dubai is the only place that does this.[/QUOTE] Where does it imply this?
nothing better to compliment your slave-driven masturbatory fantasy land than a giant monument to love
The Arabians are evolving into the Chinese !
[QUOTE]The complex will also house other structures such as the Eiffel Tower, Pyramids and the Great Wall of China.[/QUOTE] Sounds like one of my cities from Civ
"Shah Jahan, it is said that you planned to build a twin to the Taj Mahal. You never got to build it, though. How do you feel that your other Taj Mahal will never be made?" "What? lol, of course it'll be made, I'm outsourcing to future Emiratis"
[QUOTE=Negrul1;37909745]Sounds like one of my cities from Civ[/QUOTE] It's not a Civ city until they build stone henge in the ocean.
[QUOTE=Winters;37909151]Where does it imply this?[/QUOTE] It's just the documentary acts like this is something new. I didn't mean no arm.
This may actually be a good thing since the real Taj Mahal may not exist in a decade due to rotting foundation if I remember correctly. Here is a year-old article on it. [URL]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045183/Taj-Mahal-collapse-5-years-wooden-foundations-rotting.html[/URL]
Dubai is so fucked. The amount of money they've borrowed from other Gulf-Arab countries is going to screw them up.
[QUOTE=fixture;37908770][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMh-vlQwrmU[/media][/QUOTE] I lived in Dubai from the age of six to thirteen. When I came to Canada, I was amazed by how much construction workers and tradesmen were paid out here - Because back there, I didn't know there was a higher standard. And neither do those men.
Construction workers get paid loads a money here, its amazing. Sad they're used as cheap labour there.
Snip Box me bitches, just don't let your blood pressure go too high. Wait no I was right. Let's wallow in our ignorance together, loopoo. Nice snip btw, almost got yah
[QUOTE=-xxsetshotxx-;37916076]A symbol of love in a culture of arranged marriages. Okie dokie[/QUOTE] You're so spectacularly ignorant.
[QUOTE=loopoo;37916184]You're so spectacularly ignorant.[/QUOTE] Dubai is legally an islamic country, although it allows freedom of religion, unlike other arabic countries. The people there are primarily islamic and hindu, so no, you're pretty wrong.
[QUOTE=-xxsetshotxx-;37916076]A symbol of love in a culture of arranged marriages. Okie dokie[/QUOTE] Let me tell you a little something I discovered, something amazing. My parents, my mother and father, knew each other for fifteen days before they were married. I come from a Catholic family, but in India, tradition is tradition. In many cases, each of them has a choice, and my parents had a choice. They chose to get married anyway. When I asked my mother what the logic behind it was, she told me that Indian men and women tend to trust their parents (With whom they're much closer than most people in the West are to their parents) to know what sort of partner would be most compatible for them. She told me that love didn't happen first - It happened when you got to know everything about your partner - Their strengths, their weaknesses, their outlook - And decided to accept everything, the good and the bad, because you had grown to respect and care for them. I've made it clear to my parents that I don't want them to choose someone for me. I'm a Canadian, and I'll find my own mate. But now I find myself falling hard for someone I never thought I'd love, a girl who's been a close friend for almost four years. Because I know her now - Her strengths, her weaknesses, her hopes, her fears, her vulnerabilities and flaws. All the ugly things she hides from the world and shares with almost nobody else, all the irritating habits and foolish tendencies, the prejudices and pride. I feel like I love her because I can see her, ALL of her, and because I still think the world of her. And I just found out she feels the same way about me. Made me wonder whether there might not be some wisdom in my mother's words. [editline]4th October 2012[/editline] I guess I got sort of off-topic, but I did reply to the topic itself a few posts ago.
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