"Imagine! ...". Caressing voice of the speaker. Jingle, fades, a thousand lights in the night Arabic. "Imagine how will this dream come true! ...". The most replicated on the TV spot of the Gulf is a compulsion to imagine that you do not spring from the airport to the screens hotel.
The advertising to the drilling action drills that are building the complex of Taj Arabia, the Eighth junk in the world: an artistic heritage do-it-yourself with the new Taj Mahal in Dubai who will be joined by the new Tower of Pisa in Dubai, which will shadow the new Eiffel Tower in Dubai, which will stand on the new Great Wall of Dubai, which will surround the new Pyramids of Dubai ... More than one spot, an oxymoron: it is not just a beautiful dream nothing compared to last, gigantic example of architecture Frankenstein .
The Taj Mahal 2.0 will be ready in a couple of years, when we took twenty to the original. Will be four times larger, and instead of cenotaphs, will have a 300-room hotel with attached casino, racecourse,
It will not be a tomb for the wife of the emperor, but first thalamus for couples on their honeymoon. It will not be the "castle in the air" that enchanted Bayard Taylor, if anything, a land investment "admire the great works all together." A billion dollars, a hundred square kilometers in marble, fountains, niches, minarets, domes, gardens, lotus leaves and Koranic calligraphy carved: all the same, grooved without imagination, without dreams.
$1bn (£621m) project
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