Wafi City
Behold! The beautiful mysteries of the ancients!
And coming soon, at the foot of this ancient goddess…
A Calvin Klein outlet, for your retailing convenience.
Welcome to Wafi City, Dubai's most shi-shi mall, where the distant past and the modern day collide in a way that makes you want to cry. The entire mall is based on this Egyptian style. It's really quite wonderful – where else can you get a relaxing avocado face treatment at Cleopatra's Spa, followed by a cool drink at the Pharaoh's Club, followed by a chicken fingers platter beneath Sylvester Stallone's sweaty leather jacket at Planet Hollywood?
Fierce dogs guard the entrance. The Grand Hyatt – a 700-room behemoth that spells out "Dubai" in Arabic when viewed from above – is seen in the background.
Imagine the quality of the merchandise guarded by these fellas!
These would be lovely, shrunken down and sitting on my desk. As the roof of a mall, they're harder to define. I don't know whether to be inspired or appalled.
This is actually the pyramid-and-eye depicted on the back of the dollar bill. The Founding Fathers anticipated this mall as the eventual pinnacle of capitalism. Dollars travel thousands of miles here to spawn, like fish in the ocean.
A brief rest between spending sprees.
A Calvin Klein outlet, for your retailing convenience.
Welcome to Wafi City, Dubai's most shi-shi mall, where the distant past and the modern day collide in a way that makes you want to cry. The entire mall is based on this Egyptian style. It's really quite wonderful – where else can you get a relaxing avocado face treatment at Cleopatra's Spa, followed by a cool drink at the Pharaoh's Club, followed by a chicken fingers platter beneath Sylvester Stallone's sweaty leather jacket at Planet Hollywood?
Fierce dogs guard the entrance. The Grand Hyatt – a 700-room behemoth that spells out "Dubai" in Arabic when viewed from above – is seen in the background.
Imagine the quality of the merchandise guarded by these fellas!
These would be lovely, shrunken down and sitting on my desk. As the roof of a mall, they're harder to define. I don't know whether to be inspired or appalled.
This is actually the pyramid-and-eye depicted on the back of the dollar bill. The Founding Fathers anticipated this mall as the eventual pinnacle of capitalism. Dollars travel thousands of miles here to spawn, like fish in the ocean.
A brief rest between spending sprees.
posted by Eric at 6:07 AM
2 Comments:
Er,
There has been a noticable drop in postings by others on your blog in recent days. You've become way too political with these posts. I miss the old posts, where you would talk about how fun dubi is and the beautiful architecture.
Please get away from this blatant screed you seem to have derailed the blog onto. Everytime I read a new post I feel like I am on The O'Klein Factor. Return to your roots, sweetie...
M
Thank you for this charming comment. And if you are not in my immediate family -- and you obviously aren't -- please don't call me "Er" or "sweetie."
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