We at Table of Malcontents harbor a barely-concealed aspiration to world domination, as all truly disdainful intellectuals do. Someday in the not-too-distant future, we will push our buttons and board ...
If this is the future, someone forgot to stock it properly. Where are the personal service robots, the moon vacations, the self-contained cities rising out of the smog? What happened to all those ...
Touted as the world's first luxury hotel to be constructed beneath the waves, Hydropolis will cost $500m to erect and is the brainchild of General Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prince of ...
The vision: a 220-suite hotel, off the coast of Dubai, totally submerged in the Persian Gulf. This was Hydropolis, a project conceived in 2006, delayed in 2008, and today nothing more than a pile of ...
December 13, 2007 Anywhere but Dubai, the idea of building a luxury hotel 66 feet underwater would sound far-fetched. But next to the Burj-al-arab, the rotating skyscraper, manufactured islands and ...