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[amorphous]

I read about Dubai's exponential rise these past years and its explosion into the international scene, and then I think back to what HH Sheikh Mohammed once said. Paraphrasing his quote: "All these developments in Dubai that you see, these are only 10% of my final vision for this city". And then, you fall upon Dubai's latest project, the Falcon City of Wonders, and you also wonder: damn, if this is still part of the 10 percent, what in the name of all that is holy are you planning to do with this city???

Following article courtesy of www.luxist.com:

So they already have the World, what’s next for Dubai? The latest project is called the Falcon City of Wonders and is a $1.5 billion bird-shaped city which will include life-size replicas of seven wonders of the world as well as offices, shops and homes. Three buildings will be modeled on the Great Pyramid in Giza, the Lighthouse at Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. There will also be replicas of the Taj Mahal, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Eiffel Tower and the Great Wall of China. Residential villas will be situated in the wings of the falcon. The Falcon City website has details of each structure in the massive undertaking. The project is spread over an area of 100 acres and will be created in five overlapped phases, with the first phase expected to begin by the first quarter of 2006.

http://www.luxist.co...34000230058484/

For more info, goto www.falconcity.com

[philipz]

After seeing all the ads of this development on TV and my friends calling me up about it, I did some searching around for the video online but couldnt find anything.

The Falcon City website has a trashy design and it makes me wonder, if they have all that money for the project, you would expect them to have done a good website. Anyway, I found this link useful.

Falcon City of Wonders - TEN Real Estate

[DarkBlueBoss]

the man behind it all

[mcheiss]

This looks like a giant tourist trap if you ask me. I've heard that the Eiffel Tower in Falcon City is actually suppose to be taller than the one in Paris.

Great Image DBB, that last one really cleared up what all was going in this development.

[malec]

Welcome to Falcon city, the worst project in Dubai.

Why would anyone visit this when you can go see burj dubai

[malec]

The thing is, this would be a great project if they made a theme park out of it, with giant rollercoasters going through the eiffel tower and the likes. This would be great instead of turning wonders of the world into a shopping centre.

[DarkBlueBoss]

anyone notice how with the eiffil tower being there, its look like the falcon has a hard on

[mcheiss]

So it's just a bunch of shopping centers?

It still looks impressive and amazing, but could be done better. Like you said malec, If theme parks were intergrated into this, it would be the City of Wonders.

[malec]

A theme park based on the wonders of the world is a great idea but this project is just a bunch of tacky villas and shops. There is a small theme park there but they need to get rid of all the villas and put this there instead. There are already more than enough res developments in dubailand and dubai in general. What dubailand surprisingly doesn't have yet is a megapark full of the scariest, tallest rollercoasers imaginable. If falcon city was turned into this, it would be one of the best projects there. Unfortunately it's not, it's just a res and shopping project, something which is abundant in Dubai

I remember I used to love rollercoastertycoon and I'm thinking of the crazy rides I could build using a wonders of the world theme

[mcheiss]

Some rides on the Wonders of the world would be pretty cool.

[mcheiss]

Here's a new model of what Falcon City is suppose to look like.



Here's a list of the Major Attractions as well:

Eiffel Tower
Pyramids of Giza
Town of Venice
Taj Mahal
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Light House of Alexandria
Colosseum
Big Ben