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Is the Dubai Bubble Starting to Burst?

Is the Dubai Bubble Starting to Burst?
Dubai has attempted to set itself apart with the world’s tallest building (Burj Dubai) and largest urban development (Dubai Waterfront). But in terms of fallout from the current economic crisis, the Middle Eastern city may not be so different from the rest of the world after all.

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November 2008
11/26/08  Architects Head South to Weather the Economic Storm
11/26/08  Newsmaker Interview: Wolf Prix
 11/25/08  For a Utah Museum, Polshek Takes Its Cue from the Land
11/24/08  Art Museum to Serve as Dynamic Gateway for Belgian Town
11/21/08  Driehaus Prize Given to Egyptian Architect
11/20/08  Is the Dubai Bubble Starting to Burst?
11/20/08  World’s Best Buildings Honored at Festival
11/19/08 Slide showIn London, Futuristic Plans for an Old Power Station
11/18/08 Slide showPiano’s Design for Kimbell Museum Revealed
11/17/08  For Architects, the Job Axe Starts to Fall
11/17/08  Wanted: Expansion Ideas for Library by H.H. Richardson
11/14/08  USGBC Pushes Obama to Act on Green Promises
11/14/08  Hearst Tower Wins Highrise Award
11/13/08  Another Grand Plan for the South Boston Waterfront
11/12/08  Murphy/Jahn Designs Wing for Famed Chicago Library
11/12/08  Sheppard Robson Fashions a Gem for London Skyline
11/11/08 Slide showHighrise Award Winner to Be Announced
11/10/08  Member Balloting for LEED 2009 Draws to a Close
 11/10/08  Five Designers Awarded $50,000 Fellowships
11/07/08 Slide showNeutra’s Kaufmann House For Sale, Again
11/06/08  Bentley Releases Infrastructure Design Suite
11/06/08  For Construction Industry, Election Results a Mixed Bag
11/06/08  Chicago’s “Twizzler” Fizzles
11/05/08  New Skyscraper Stars in National Geographic Show
11/04/08  Morphosis Pushes Boundaries with First Project in China
11/03/08  Newsmaker Interview: Lawrence W. Speck
October 2008
10/30/08  “Fashionable” Project Reflects the New Milan
10/29/08 Slide showUK Theater Marks Significant Milestone for Viñoly
10/28/08 Slide showArchitectural Emblems of Kazakhstan’s Energy Wealth
10/27/08  Bailout Plan Includes Tax Incentives for Energy Efficiency
10/24/08  Government Rescue Could Ease Construction Decline
10/23/08  Foster to Renovate New York Public Library
10/23/08  Building Information Modeling Contract Documents Arrive
10/23/08  Lending Freeze Tests Skyscraper Optimism
10/22/08  U.S. Firm Helps China Rebuild After Deadly Quake
10/21/08 Slide showPalladio Still Relevant 500 Years After His Birth
10/20/08  Newsmaker Interview: Joseph Grima
10/17/08 Slide showAnother Makeover for NYC’s South Street Seaport?
10/16/08 Slide showShopping Malls Not Below Libeskind's "Dignity"
10/15/08  Architects Hit Hard by Financial Crisis
10/14/08  Libya Opens the Door to American Architects
10/13/08  Alvaro Siza Awarded 2009 RIBA Gold Medal
10/10/08  University Program Fuses Ecology and Design
10/09/08 Slide showFoster Envisions Dramatic Facelift for Italian Beachfront
10/08/08 Slide showFive Designs for Hudson Park Revealed
10/07/08  Vertical Food Gardens Sprout in L.A.’s Skid Row
10/06/08 Slide showCorrea, Maki Tapped to Design Aga Khan Center
10/03/08  Kaufmann Proposes “Nutritional Labels” for Homes
10/02/08  AIA To Release New IPD and Design-Build Documents
10/01/08  Guggenheim and Other Top Museums Select New Directors
10/01/08  House for War Veteran Designed by Yale Students
September 2008
09/30/08  Slide showAditya Prakash, 85, a Prominent Indian Architect, Dies
09/29/08  Momentum Grows For Futuristic Scheme
09/26/08  Slide showOn Heels of MoMA Show, a Prefab Exhibition Opening in Philly
09/25/08  NYC Museum Undergoes $97-Million Makeover by Polshek
09/25/08  Engineer, Lighting Designer Among Winners of “Genius” Grants
09/24/08  In Manhattan, a Bittersweet Grand Opening at Columbus Circle
09/23/08  Slide showPrinceton’s Campus Plan Comes Into Full Bloom
09/23/08  Newsmaker Interview: Brad Cloepfil
09/18/08  Stephen A. Kliment, Former RECORD Editor in Chief, Dies at 78
09/18/08  Slide showSmall Town in Maine Gets a New, $48-Million Border Station
09/17/08  Slide showBusinessWeek and Architectural Record Announce 2008 Awards
09/16/08  Grimshaw Designs “Airport City” for St. Petersburg
09/15/08  Slide showFirst Skyscraper by Herzog & de Meuron Rising in NYC
09/12/08  Finalists for Humanitarian Design Award Announced
09/12/08  Wanted: Design Concepts for Eisenhower Memorial in D.C.
09/11/08  Pentagon 9/11 Memorial by KBAS Dedicated Today
09/10/08  Slide showAt Ground Zero, Little Progress After Seven Years
09/09/08  Slide showSpace Group Reinvents a Major Transit Hub in Oslo
09/08/08  HOK Sport Breaks Away from Parent Company
09/04/08  Yale Taps Stern for Major Project
09/04/08  AIA Requires Sustainability in Continuing Education
09/03/08  Slide showGehry Designs First Big Project For Toronto, His Hometown
09/02/08  Students Master the Art of Building
August 2008
08/29/08  Universities Aim for “A+” in Carbon Reductions
08/27/08  Slide showThere Will Be Tacos, There Will Be Compost
08/27/08  Slide showWhitney Reveals Piano's Design for Downtown Branch
08/26/08  Slide showFoster + Partners Paints a New Future for Pushkin Museum
08/25/08  UFO Museum Has Close Encounter of the CAD Kind
08/22/08  News Highlights of the Week: August 16 – August 22, 2008
08/21/08  Slide showWoo is First Architect to Win Ho-Am Prize
08/20/08  Slide showDespite Its Diminutive Stature, Singapore Booms
08/19/08  Architecture Students Star in Reality TV Show
08/18/08  Foster Tries Again in Upper Manhattan
08/15/08  News Highlights of the Week: August 9 – August 15, 2008
08/14/08  Slide showWright’s Palmer House Put on the Market
08/13/08  Slide showAn Architectural Gem in Germany is Reborn
08/12/08  Reiter to Lead Chicago Art Institute School
08/11/08  Slide showTerry Brown, Mushroom House Architect, Dies at 53
08/08/08  News Highlights of the Week: August 2 – August 8, 2008
08/07/08  Paul S. Byard, 68, Noted Preservationist Who Embraced The Present
08/07/08  Construction of “World’s Worst Building” Resumes?
08/06/08  AIA Deconstructs Green-Building Standards
08/06/08  AIA and USGBC To Form a Strategic Alliance
08/05/08  Calatrava’s WTC Transit Hub Pared Down
08/04/08  Slide showStudio Pei-Zhu Tapped for Museum in China
08/01/08  News Highlights of the Week: July 26 – August 1, 2008
July 2008
07/31/08  AIA Philly Opens a Center for Architecture
07/30/08  Stern Handily Wins 10th Annual Vincent Scully Prize
07/29/08  Buckhead Library Avoids the Wrecking Ball
07/28/08  Billings Rise, But Forecast Still Bleak
07/28/08  Slide showIn a Desert City, a Skyline Grows Ever Higher
07/25/08  News Highlights of the Week: July 19 – July 25, 2008
07/24/08  Slide showMoMA Fabricates a Memorable Exhibition
07/23/08  Slide showHannes Wettstein, 50, Swiss Designer Who Championed Function Over Flair
07/22/08  California Buildings Go Green
07/21/08  Slide showA Prefab, Rotating Skyscraper Coming to a City Near You?
07/18/08  Architecture 2030 Reveals New Guide to Reduce Consumption
07/18/08  News Highlights of the Week: July 12 – July 18, 2008
07/17/08  NY Times Building Altered Due to Climbing Trend
07/16/08  Slide showFXFOWLE Designs World's Largest Spanning Arch Bridge for Dubai
07/15/08  Even Small Firms Get a Slice of the Dubai Pie
07/14/08  Slide showKohn Pedersen Fox Tapped for Abu Dhabi Airport Expansion
07/11/08  News Highlights of the Week: July 4 – July 11, 2008
07/10/08  Appalachia Scheme Wins Bucky Fuller Design Contest
07/10/08  China’s Building Boom Sparks Ethical Debate
07/09/08  Slide showGluckman Mayner Transforms a Weapons Factory Into an Art Gallery
07/08/08  Bentley and Autodesk Soon to be Compatible?
07/08/08  Slide showLondon Revs Up for 2012 Summer Olympics
07/07/08  Turin Basks in Post-Olympic Glow
07/03/08  GSA Hiring a New Chief After Former One Quits
07/03/08  RMJM Ranks Best Cities For Design
07/02/08  WORK Plants an Urban Farm in Queens
07/01/08  Midwest Floods Wreak Havoc on Architectural Landmarks
June 2008
06/30/08  Slide showLibeskind Museum Strikes a Balance Between Old and New
06/27/08  News Highlights of the Week: June 21 – June 27, 2008
06/26/08  Slide showWalter Netsch, 88, Leaves Behind a Complex Legacy
06/26/08  Two Studies Measure Perks of Green Buildings
06/25/08  Luxury Condo Tower to Rise Near Boston Landmarks?
06/24/08  ENR Announces Top 100 Green Design Firms
06/23/08  Architectural Quartet Dreams Up Mega-Project for Milan
06/20/08  News Highlights of the Week: June 14 – June 20, 2008
06/19/08  Slide showNouvel Envisions New Icon for Paris
06/18/08  Slide showLondon Architecture Festival Urges Fresh Thinking
06/17/08  Slide showPiano’s Plans for Corbu Landmark Incite Fierce Debate
06/13/08  News Highlights of the Week: June 7 – June 13, 2008
06/12/08  California Pumps $271 Million Into Construction of Stem Cell Labs
06/11/08  Shigeru Ban Pavilion Could Fetch Upward of $1 Million at Auction
06/10/08  Slide showFuksas Wins Shenzhen Airport Competition
06/09/08  Two Firms Merge to Form Sci-Tech Powerhouse
06/06/08  News Highlights of the Week: May 31 – June 6, 2008
06/05/08  Modernist House by Schindler Donated to MAK
06/04/08  Slide showGehry Designs NYC's Tallest Residential Tower
06/03/08  2007 Revenues of Top Firms Grew 25 Percent
06/03/08  After the Flood on Display Through June
06/02/08  Filmmaker Son of Scott Brown and Venturi to Set Record Straight?
May 2008
05/30/08  News Highlights of the Week: May 24 – May 30, 2008
05/29/08  Big-Box Stores Slim Down for Urban Settings
05/28/08  Architecture Schools Announce Changing of the Guards
05/23/08  Gehry Downsizes Tower Design for Atlantic Yards
05/23/08  News Highlights of the Week: May 16 – May 23, 2008
05/22/08  Slide showJullian de la Fuente, Corbusier Protégé, Dies
05/21/08  Slide showNational Trust Announces 11 Most Endangered Sites
05/21/08  USGBC Seeks Public Input on LEED 2009
05/20/08  Louis Kahn-Designed House (Still) Up for Sale
05/19/08  Slide showUNStudio Gets First Major U.S. Project
05/16/08  Penn Announces New Architecture Dean
05/15/08  Slide showCooper-Hewitt Announces National Design Award Winners
05/14/08  Slide showStamps Commemorate Charles and Ray Eames
05/13/08  Fire Engulfs Academic Building in the Netherlands
05/13/08  Slide showBitter Debate Brews Over Domino Sugar Plant
05/12/08  Architects' Billings Plummet to All-Time Low
05/09/08  AFH Comes to Aid of Cyclone Victims
05/09/08  News Highlights of the Week: May 3 – May 9, 2008
05/08/08  Glassy Re-Clads Boost Energy Efficiency But Confound Critics
05/07/08  Smith + Gill Tapped for Ultra-Green Abu Dhabi Project
05/06/08  Debate Ensues After NYC Building Chief Resigns
05/05/08  Slide showCalatrava’s Bridge in Jerusalem Incites Controversy
05/02/08  News Highlights of the Week: April 26 – May 2, 2008
05/02/08  Slide showArchitecture Students Help Rebuild Greensburg
April 2008
04/30/08  Glass House Releases Extra Tickets for Sold-Out Season
04/30/08  Slide show"Mega-building" to Host 2014 Commonwealth Games
04/29/08  Boston Squeezed as Colleges and Universities Expand
04/28/08  New Textbook Turns the Page on Drafting
04/25/08  Greensburg Aims for a Platinum Shade of Green
04/25/08  AudioNews Highlights of the Week: April 19 – April 25, 2008
04/24/08  Slide showDellis Cay: Green Paradise or Fantasy Island?
04/23/08  Few Assurances Made on UAE Worker Rights
04/22/08  Slide showAIA Announces 2008 COTE Award Winners
04/22/08  Slide showGuggenheim Says Goodbye to Koolhaas, Hello to Hadid
04/21/08  Nader Khalili, Noted Earth Architect, Dies at 72
04/21/08  Bauhaus Museum Opens in Tel Aviv’s White City
04/18/08  AudioNews Highlights of the Week: April 12 – April 18, 2008
04/17/08  Krisel Houses Take Palm Springs Back to the Future
04/16/08  AudioDuany and Plater-Zyberk Donate Driehaus Winnings
04/15/08  New York’s Public Library Checking Out Architects
04/14/08  After the Flood on View in Los Angeles
04/11/08  Study of Fees Indicates Project Type Doesn’t Matter
04/11/08  AudioNews Highlights of the Week: April 5 – April 11, 2008
04/10/08  Polshek’s Newsiest Museum Opens in D.C.
04/10/08  Field Ops Wins Massive Memphis Park Competition
04/09/08  Has NYC’s Ambitious Development Agenda Stalled?
04/08/08  Slide showRalph Rapson, 93, a Modernist Who Drew to the End
04/07/08  Dallas Revisits Its Utopian Past
04/04/08  AudioNews Highlights of the Week: March 29 – April 4, 2008
04/03/08  Gehry’s Serpentine Pavilion Design Unveiled
04/02/08  RMJM Gift Helps Harvard Launch Practice Program
04/01/08  BusinessWeek/RECORD Announce 2008 China Awards
04/01/08  HOK Hopes Nationals Park Will Hit Green Home Run
March 2008
03/31/08  Slide showJean Nouvel Wins 2008 Pritzker Prize
03/28/08  VideoNews Highlights of the Week: March 22 – March 28, 2008
03/27/08  Jahn and Walker’s Plan for Hudson Yards Victorious
03/26/08  Heathrow T5 Arrives as Britons Take to the Rails
03/25/08  Slide showThe Sagaponac Effect: Modernist Subdivisions Multiply
03/24/08  Tulane Nears Completion on Third New Orleans House
03/21/08  AudioNews Highlights of the Week: March 15 – March 21, 2008
03/20/08  Architects’ Billings Down Sharply in Early 2008
03/20/08  Young Residential Architects Invade Mongolia
03/19/08  Holl-Designed Plant to Power Toronto’s New Waterfront
03/18/08  LivingHomes Launches KieranTimberlake Designs
03/18/08  GenerativeComponents Almost Ready for Primetime
03/17/08  Graves Tapped for AIAS “Architectural Peace Corps”
03/14/08  AudioNews Highlights of the Week: March 8 – March 14, 2008
03/14/08  Slide show AIA Names 2008 Housing Award Winners
03/13/08  Hadid Bags Fashionable Chanel Project
03/12/08  Koolhaas Unveils New Waterfront City in Dubai
03/12/08  Input Sought on High-Performance Building Standard
03/11/08  High Society Outshines High Modernism
03/10/08  Will Downsizing McMansions Fatten Architects’ Wallets?
03/07/08   AudioNews Highlights of the Week: March 1 – March 7, 2008
03/06/08  FMI Buys Advanced Management Institute
03/05/08  New Oslo Ski Jump Has Rocky Liftoff
03/04/08  Cloepfil Unveils Design for Clyfford Still Museum
03/03/08  Landscape/Architecture Firms Growing Closer
February 2008
02/29/08  Thomas Krens, Guggenheim's Controversial Leader, Steps Down
02/29/08  News Highlights of the Week: February 23 – February 29, 2008
02/28/08  Snowmass Resort Shows It’s Easy Skiing Green
02/27/08  Feiner Goes All-In as Las Vegas Sands’ New Chief Architect
02/27/08  FEMA Testing Alternatives to Problematic Trailers
02/26/08  Slide showMid-Century Architecture at Risk in New Orleans
02/25/08  Boston’s ICA Still a Work in Progress
02/22/08  With the AOC Slot Still Open, AIA Urges Action
02/22/08  AudioNews Highlights of the Week: February 16 – February 22, 2008
02/21/08  Slide show Gehry's Winton Guest House Moving to New Home
02/20/08  Slide show Whose Vision of a Future City Will Prevail?
02/19/08  AIA Announces the Names of 116 New Fellows
02/19/08  3XN Transforms a Brown Site into a Green One
02/15/08  AudioNews Highlights of the Week: February 9 – February 15, 2008
02/14/08  Housing the YouTube Generation and Beyond
02/13/08  P.S.1 Goes Organic with WORK's Public Farm 1
02/12/08  Fire Destroys UNStudio's VilLA NM
02/12/08  Oil Drilling Threatens Smithson’s Spiral Jetty
02/11/08  Richard Rogers Treading Water on NYC Riverfronts
02/08/08   AudioNews Highlights of the Week: February 2 – February 8, 2008
02/07/08  LTL Gets Creative with Arthouse in Austin
02/06/08  Herzog & de Meuron Face Opposition in Hong Kong
02/05/08  OMA to Buoy Hamburg's Waterfront
02/04/08  Changes Requested as Opposition Grows Against PGCC
02/01/08   AudioNews Highlights of the Week: January 26 – February 1, 2008
January 2008
01/31/08  Refurbished French Market Opens in Big Easy
01/31/08  Standards for High-Performance Building in the Works
01/30/08  VideoFeisty Design Duel Pits FXFowle v. Konyk
01/30/08  Nouvel Designs Towering Slender Neighbor for MoMA
01/29/08  RK Stewart Leaving Gensler for Perkins + Will
01/29/08  Wrecking Ball to Swing on Johnson’s Ball House?
01/28/08  AIA Names Recipients of 2008 Young Architects Award
01/28/08  Court Case Tests Limit of Spain’s Preservation Law
01/25/08  Market Hot for Furniture by Hadid and Other Architects
01/25/08   AudioNews Highlights of the Week: January 19 – January 25, 2008
01/24/08  Ride Over for Houston’s Carousel House
01/23/08  California Hospitals Get a Seismic Reprieve
01/22/08  Jewish-American Museum Rising in Philly
01/22/08  Gehry Tapped to Design Serpentine Pavilion
01/18/08  AudioNews Highlights of the Week: January 12 – January 18, 2008
01/17/08  Brooklyn Arts District Regains Momentum
01/16/08  Bovis Faces Questions After Trump SoHo Death
01/16/08  At 151, AIA Enjoys Post-Anniversary Bounce
01/15/08  Hadid to Design MSU’s Broad Art Museum
01/14/08  NOLA Riverfront Plan Gets Green Light
01/11/08  Times Tower's Cracked Windows Investigated
01/11/08  AudioNews Highlights of the Week: January 5 – January 11, 2008
01/10/08  Form Follows Feathers: Bird-Friendly Architecture
01/09/08  Mayne Tapped for Dallas Museum of Nature & Science
01/09/08  Detroit Revs Up for Cadillac Centre
01/08/08  Ettore Sottsass, 90, Elder Statesman of Italian Design
01/07/08  Slide showAIA Names Winners of 2008 Honor Awards
01/07/08  Self-Certification Crackdown Sparks NY Turf War
01/04/08  New Zoning Could Alter Coney Island Development
01/04/08  AudioNews Highlights of the Week: December 29, 2007 – January 4, 2008
01/03/08  Luxury Condos Continue to Sprout by High Line
01/02/08  Gensler Tackles the Baggage of Modern Flying
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