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Permanent Impermanence

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Syed Manazir Ali

Publication year - 2010

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Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1537-6052

pISSN - 1536-5042

DOI - 10.1525/ctx.2010.9.2.26

Subject(s) - impermanence , apartment , living room , white (mutation) , art , art history , history , geography , visual arts , archaeology , engineering , political science , architectural engineering , law , buddhism , biochemistry , chemistry , gene

I was standing on the helipad of a new, swanky highrise apartment building in the Dubai Marina with my friend Vishul in the summer of 2006. We took in the panoramic, nighttime view of skyscrapers in the making, each capped with cranes lit red and white like so many giant Transformer action figures. Vishul, who'd grown up in Dubai, turned three hundred and sixty degrees and jokingly exclaimed, “This is the future!” And, until the global economic meltdown hit in late 2008, it probably was.

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