This is not a city in the West. Its in the Middle East, and it has the tallest tower in the world, soon to be the 2nd tallest tower to another tower that will also be in the Middle East.
Is the west losing its technological and developmental edge to other regions of the world? Dubai's skyline can challenge any city in the west and surpass it.
How did it happen?
These stupid monkeys were living in caves 60 years ago. They just won the lotto because they were sitting on oil. I doubt that arabs designed or built that tower.
I've always found it amusing that Dubai, a city sitting on the most worthless land in the world (a desert), concentrates so many supertalls.
Built on oil. Once the oil age is over, there will be sand again.
Basically. In 10-20 years tops, most coutries in the east will catch up to the west technologically and in terms of living standards.
My city is already better and modern than most western citys by far.
Slavery
>designed by american engineers
>build with thai labor
>materials come from china
it may be in the ME, but the only middle eastern thing about this is the money
this, these countries were built overnight from sand, and to sand they shall return
2 big towers? Revenge when?
Dubai is an important port regardless. But this thread is stupid because Muslims have ALWAYS been great builders.
>skyline = major city
those ghost chinese cities must be the greatest in the world
Ah yes the burj khalifa: designed by a brit, built by Filipino slaves and paid for with american oil dollars.
A truly middle eastern achievement
For starters
>tall building
>technological edge
As people pointed out already it was designed by an American firm. I also don’t see how building unnecessarily tall buildings is a sign of technological advancement. Pretty sure this is bait, but I don’t know why the left throws away women/LGBT rights away because Dubai can build shiny tall buildings
I'm gonna 911it
That was a bank built by Greeks mahmed. Nktice the statues of people desecrated by your monkey brethren due to your backwards beliefs. You people make nice stuff from time to time though
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>The average Muslim nation produces less than 1/10 as much scientific research as a non-Muslim nation. Source:
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WUZ
>Every Muslim nation produces less scientific research than the world average. Source:
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>Muslim countries produce so few patents that their contributions worldwide are “invisible”. Source:
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>Muslim nations spend 1/7 as much of their GDP on R&D as the rest of the world. Source:
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>implying sand niggers built Petra hang yourself
It's a lit easier to build skyscrapers when the EPA doesnt exist and slave labor is an acceptable practice.
That's the fucking haiga Sophia built by the Romans you fucking mongrel
This is true, but it doesn't make whites look any better or Middle Easterners look any worse. Everybody in the ME knows gulf arabs are disgusting rats that had no civilization until they discovered oil. It's an unnatural state of the world to have Saudis being a superpower, it's a disgrace. Saudi Arabia used to receive food from fucking Sudan of all places because they couldn't feed their own population.
Levantines, Egyptians, Jews, and Persians built the ancient world. Turks colonized them all and created an impressive empire. What did khaleejis do? They're basically just poor retarded sandjews who think they're Allah's chosen. pieces of fucking shit
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>Is the west losing its technological and developmental edge to other regions of the world?
all the architect and engineering firms who designed and built the buildings were western lol
Burj Khalifa
Architect: Adrian Smith
Architecture firm: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Structural engineer: Bill Baker
>WE WUZ OTTOMANS
plot twist
it's built out of bricks of shit laid down by aids builders
Dubai has no soul. Istanbul is a better city with rich heritage. Skyscrappers mean shit if there’s no history to them
Designed by whites and built by Indian slaves. When the west dies all technological progress dies with it.
Because libtards sends them money.
>Playing Simcity with the infinite money cheat on
That was built more than 3,000 years before that goat fucker cult started, you retard.
The Burj Kalifa.... T
>The tower's architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill of Chicago, with Adrian Smith as chief architect, and Bill Baker as chief structural engineer. The primary contractor was Samsung C&T of South Korea.
So the tower was designed by Americans and built by South Koreans using the money of a bunch of dumb Arabs. Said Arabs think wasting their oil money on giant sky scrapers and resorts is somehow going to secure their economic future after the oil runs out because people will be lining up to take vacations in the middle of a desert filled with jihadists and random wars.
are you serious? just look at the city it’s tiny. wikipedia says dubai city gdp is roughly 3x the size of allentown gdp and 1/3 the size atlanta gdp... if youve ever passed through allentown u’d realize how hilariously badly they are using their money
You mean Constantinople? That's a city with rich heritage.
Istanbul is a modern creation.
istanbul is a paragraph in a near future history book...
>Is the west losing its technological and developmental edge
Those towers were all designed by westerners. Try harder.
We don't build a tower that tall in the US because there is no purpose for it.
dubai gdp 115 billion allentown gdp 42 billion
pic related is allentown. spend the next 30 seconds realizing how retarded arabs are
>not hooked up to public sewage
>a tower of shit
its a beautiful building especially with that lighting. Mia must be so proud.
good bait
That's because arabs are status obsessed which drives the ones rich on oil money to build frivolous shows of wealth.
kys
it is hooked to public sewage what are you talking about
Venezuela won the lotto too but why is it a shithole? their people are just as subhuman as the arabs
alright I'll give you a 7/10 for the effort
underrated
Oilniggers love throwing money at shiny objects look at the saudi's. Point is that outsied of the super rich areas its basically just sand people being sandpeople
Also no booze allowed
Already true in much of East Asia.
The gulf states are an aberration: all those pretty buildings were build by Pajeet slave labor and designed by Western architects. Oil arabs are literally sub-human leeches that will go back to fucking camels when their wells run dry.
>Muslims have always been great builders
>Posts picture of pre-Islamic civ.
Ebin.
this desu
lmao
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Because their oil is syrupy garbage that is only profitable when prices are high.
That building is covered in idols Ahmed not your gay little scribbles that only Muhammed permits. You fucking history thievesale me sick.
Sure they have nice buildings, but they dont really make anything aside from exporting oil. What happens when the oil runs out?
western finance and engineering has been constructing this city practically pro-bono
This. These cities must be pretty vacant. Not many sand people can afford to live here. Its mostly toruists. And i doubt many tourists go there. You cant even drink in saudi. I was watching some show about a european girl whogot sent there on business and she went out drinking one night, some guy drugged her and raped her, and when she told the police she was arrested for drinking. And the rapists were let go because there werent 4 male witnesses or whatever. Its a modern city sorrounded by sand people with sand people laws.
They also spend their oil monies in a very shortsighted way. Norway is the example to follow when it comes to what to do with natural resource money.
All I see is the blind pride of inbred retards with billions to spend.
It's not a technical issue it's a regulatory one. The west has cucked itself with red tape.
Muslims didn’t build that, Nabateans built that. Nomadic half-Greek Arabs
Locked up abroad or one of those shows. I think shes still in jail too. All because shegot drunk. And i think she broke a few other laws too. Like driving and contempt of court.
So they got enough oil money to build a big tower big wup. What are they even using it for?
lel agree, khaliji parasites don't deserve their status and wealth. USA can go fuck themselves for kissing their Arab asses
She wasnt even there for the show. It was her mother explaining what happened to her daughter from text messages or phonecalls.
I like the way you think user!!
We're waiting till the second one is built so we can knock them down at the same time. Never forgetp
>venezuela won the lotto too but why is it a shithole?
Socialism
Because they don't import sandniggers to this rich area
>Really made me think
this city doesn't even have a working waste treatment grid system, they use fucking trucks ffs. They hire cunts to empty waste from their buildings and some of them just dump it into the ocean.
Designed and lead by European and North American architects and contractors, built by south east and south asian labor
>How did it happen?
The dudes in charge had a bunch of oil money, and wanted to build a shiny area to attract tourists to diversify the economy. So they built a lot of shiny buildings without bothering to build the infrastructure that underlies actual modern cities. This reflects a culture that values appearance over substance, and doesn't really grok the nuts and bolts of technological civilization. meforum.org
And consider that most of those skyscrapers are residences for the rich, while most skyscrapers in Western cities are office buildings where people perform the business of running complex and prosperous economies.
So Dubai's skyline is impressive, but for comparison, Rome of two millennia ago had a sewer system running through the city providing waste disposal not just to major buildings but to individual houses. And its economy is smaller than that of Cincinnati.
>2012
>pressure on the sewage system because city grew so fast
>used trucks temporary
>d-dey be poopin' in trucks
>Nabateans
>Nomadic
>half-Greek
No shit. European engineers have to design shit for them. Just like all the gold plated cars they order. If it wasn’t for white man technology to discover their oil and pull it out they’d be riding camels and in tents.