Archive for October, 2008
Dubai is Bigger, Taller and Wider
Monday, October 20, 2008 9:46 3 CommentsMmmm…..tallscreen.
Is bigger always better? In this case, I would say yes. At least in terms of sheer awesomeness. What you’re looking at here is a future 33-story LED screen on a building in Dubai. You know, the place where the mega-rich go on vacation and they have nothing better to do than create their own [...]
Dubai Mall Aquarium, Very Impressive
Sunday, October 19, 2008 8:08 1 CommentThe Dubai Aquarium at the new Dubai Mall is set to open to the public on August 28, coinciding with the opening of the mall.
The aquarium will showcase one of the most diverse collections of marine life worldwide, according to mall officials. With one of the largest tanks in the world at 51 metres by [...]
Transformers at the Pyramids
Saturday, October 18, 2008 14:42 No CommentsWe quickly threw on clothes and gathered water and cameras and were about to walk out the door when Amber woke up. We told her what was going on in what must have been a huge run on sentence. She responded with, “can you give me two minutes”. So within 20 minutes I had gone [...]
NBA Stars humiliated by Regular People
Saturday, October 18, 2008 10:49 1 CommentChristian Louboutin Heads to Dubai
Friday, October 17, 2008 13:16 1 CommentWomen’s shoe designer Christian Louboutin may soon open shop in Dubai, according to the Khaleej Times. The designer’s signature red-soled sky-high stilettos seem to fit right into the architectural and style-centered city. The designer says he has been scouting out possible locations in Dubai to appease his following there.
If he doesn’t find suitable real estate [...]
Posh and Becks in Egypt!!!
Friday, October 17, 2008 13:10 1 CommentSpice Girl Melanie Brown is so in love with her hubby, Stephen Belafonte, that she is renewing her vows at a grand celebration in Egypt later this year.
In fact, a source has revealed that the Scary Spice and her producer husband have sent out “an 11-page invite” to friends.
“It was very ornate and detailed,” The [...]
CIC gets a shoutout in Canadian Press
Friday, October 17, 2008 13:03 No CommentsSYDNEY — Cape Breton University’s enrolment figures are among the best in the region, with the highest increase in full-time undergraduate students this academic year.
CBU’s one-year full-time undergraduate growth of 7.5 per cent, reported to the the Atlantic Association of Universities, is larger than that of any other post-secondary school in Atlantic Canada and can [...]
Beltone Relocating
Thursday, October 16, 2008 21:18 1 CommentSwanke Hayden Connell Architects (SHCA) has been appointed by Beltone Financial to design its new HQ in the 6 October Smart Village in Cairo.The project, SHCA’s first in Egypt, will see the firm not only providing the architectural design for the 14,490 sq m, four-storey base building but also the interior design. In addition SHCA [...]
