shiva

Is it just me or does it look less and less like a map of the world by the day???

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/the-w...lbum=0&photo=0

compare that to the original design

http://guide.theemiratesnetwork.com/...orld_dubai.jpg

Inselaffen

well the owners will probably be quite peeved that Dubai is coming out to meet them

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/dubai-the-universe/

Robbies

Australia was a known change, and from what I have read, south america and antartica etc and are going to be split into the smaller islands once development starts - so the solid lines in the photo will become individual islands in time

Meow

I was on the 42nd floor of Emirates Towers this morning & you can see it from there. Just looks like a few blobby piles of sand.

IndieG

Think there's a change. They've decided to convert it into 1 big blobby pile of sand and market/re-launch it as Pangaea......

Jeeper

Will all be underwater in a few decades anyway.

Inselaffen

residents better get one of these then

Eeyore

Maybe sooner... as a BE poster who bought on the Palm reported last November, there's already seawater seeping into the basements of some of the buildings there.

Mind you, you'd hope that the people who end up buying islands in The World would be more careful about their build quality.

IndieG

and will be relaunched as Atlantic - the lost World.... Never underestimate the power of marketing and PR...........

Eeyore

That's a thought. Maybe it'll make up for Hydropolis dying the death

Blue Cat

Hydropolis not happening now

Eeyore

Unless they're just keeping very very very quiet about building the world's first underwater hotel.

It was meant to be already under construction when we came out here in 2005 and complete by 2007. I'm sure I read a year or two back that the project had been sunk (YSWIDT?) through lack of funds.

Slingshot

it is still going to happen. watch this space

Slingshot

they generally are full of bull so anything's possible

IndieG

Why, have they put you in charge of the project?