The Indian state of Tamil Nadu's parliament building will be designed by von Gerkan, Marg und Partner. As winners of the first prize in the competition from 2007, the planning contract has already been awarded. The 160 000 square-meter-building situa…
Architecture and Power ‘Instant City: The Rise of Dubai’ was the title of the first lecture at the Berlage Institute on Tuesday March 13 in a series that focuses on the relation between architecture, power and political correctness. The announcement promised that the evening would mostly be about social and economic inequalities in this rapidly growing desert city in the Persian Gulf. But alas this wasn’t the case, either in the introductions by Kees Christiaanse and George Katodrytis or in the succeeding discussion.
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Roemer van Toorn introduced Dubai with a quote from the American writer Mike Davis. In his article ‘Fear and Money in Dubai’ (New Left Review, 2006), Davis writes that Dubai is one big gated community, a neo-liberal dream turned real in…