Optimism and cold hard cash can only go so far; Dubai may truly be the ‘Icarus’ of contemporary man-made development.
Though its initial plans for the Line seem to have been scaled back – by a lot – Saudi Arabia’s wildly ambitious, and at times impractical, vision to remake the desert country into a tourist paradise is not over.
This massive luxury development opening soon in Dubai boasts, amongst other things, a large number of floating swimming pools.