Rem Koolhaas   The Gulf is the current frontline of rampant modernization: a feverish production of urban substance, on sites where nomads roamed unmolested only half a century ago. The Gulf – its initial development triggered by the discovery of oil – is undergoin

Javier Montes   Si nuestra Arcadia feliz es el mall temático de paisajismo acolchado, seguridad a prueba de bombas y shopping ubicuo, Dubai y Abu Dhabi ofrecen un anticipo de esa tierra prometida en pos de la que atravesamos el desierto los aldeanos globales: hace y

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Persian Gulf was first associated with oil, then with weapons and today with real-estate, but wells, aircraft carriers and skyscrapers are terms of an equation that links energy, war and construction in a vicious triangle. This powder keg of the