at producing one post a week for this new year. I am taking the
opportunity that I have right now as I board the shuttle to the
airport. I like this shuttle bus concept because it saves my wife a
trip to the busiest airport on the west coast, and it is better for
the environment. I was going to read a little but they turned off the
lights so decided to blog from my iphone. Thankfully the email program
has text correction because this bus is aweful bumpmy. I left that
mispelled on purpose. ;)
The one topic I would like to address right now is about a recent
article from skyscraper magazine, it was more of a news item. It was
about a new tower getting the green light in Dubai. They showed one
rendering for this building, and let me tell you, it was nothing
spectacular. All I can really remember was that it is going to be 60
stories tall and that it will look like every other 60 story high rise
in dubai, that has been built in the past 15 years. And for those of
you who don't know that is litterally hundreds of buildings. The point
I wanted to emphasize about this Bulding is the name of it. The
developers simply are dubbing it "The Skyscraper". My observation is
that I guess the only name not taken had to be somthing like
skyscraper. And I think the name fits, a generic title for a very
generic and very useless tower in a city that definately does not need
another carbon pimping, human rights violating structure. I am glad
that the name for my Dubai project isn't taken yet. It will be called
"The ------------". You know what you can fill that part in because
i'm sure you are just as qualified.
Kurt Neiswender, LEED AP
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