Dubai: The Cloud

In an attempt to aid Dubai's skyline in becoming more elaborately demented by the hour, Nadim Karam of Lebanese architecture firm Atelier Hapsitus designed The Cloud Resort (presented at the Dubai's International Design Forum in May of 2007):



The delicate, inspired Cloud differs sharply from Atelier's other projects (largely blocky, modernist extensions and residences) and could be an interesting foil to Dubai's increasingly characterless horizon of desperately upward-stretching monstrosities. The project is old news to proposal enthusiasts, but according to Hapsitus's epilepsy-inducing website, The Cloud has now officially "entered phase two" and is presently being developed by London engineering firm ARUP.