Foreign Policy takes us on a tour of the upcoming architectural wonders of the autocratic world. (Hat tip to SWJ)
This is an artist’s rendering of the Khan Shatyry Entertainment Center in Astana (Kazakhstan):
And this is Waterfront City in Dubai (United Arab Emirates):
Their not-so-subtle point: unfreedom equals vanity projects.
I wonder what they think of the new Royal Ontario Museum in Canada:
Those crazy Canadian despots.
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All it really means is that Autocratic Architecture really improved.. They came a long way since the “wonders” built in Kinshasa or Pyong-Yang.
Oh Canadians…
Is UAE really that bad? I always got the impression they were very western culturally.