26 September, 2008

Dubai explosion

Quite a few people seem to have heard or felt the explosion in Dubai this morning.

It was nothing to worry about, I was caught up in the traffic closures around the event - a controlled explosion to demolish the towers that are making way for Dubai Pearl by the entrance to Palm Jumeirah.

They're now lying flat on the ground.
Posted by Seabee at 12:13 pm

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Finally!

Chipping away at the buildings with a wrecking ball seemed to accomplish nothing.

26 September, 2008 13:08
Stained said...

Wasn't it a recently (not completed)constructed building that was lying around partly demolished for ages....

26 September, 2008 13:48
Seabee said...

Stained yes, the concreting was just about finished on them, then they started to very slowly demolish them.

26 September, 2008 14:26
Anonymous said...

Wow, they don't let anything get in the way of their plans over there do they?

26 September, 2008 18:03
a question of a question said...

"Wow, they don't let anything get in the way of their plans over there do they?"

No . . . . . not even common sense

27 September, 2008 09:21
Anonymous said...

I heard they were "facing the wrong way"..

27 September, 2008 20:44
Seabee said...

anon@20.44, the original developer/development got into trouble, a new developer took over the land and designed a completely new project.

28 September, 2008 16:07
Anonymous said...

It's good to see the masterplan is all going smoothly

02 October, 2008 13:49

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