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December 7th, 2009, 15:05
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/500x_yashotel-lead01.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/yashotel-lead01.jpg)The United Arab Emirates (http://gizmodo.com/tag/unitedarabemirates/) aren't booming (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/business/economy/02leonhardt.html) like they used to (http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2006/feb/13/unitedarabemirates.travel), which is worrying. Judging from the latest (http://flavorwire.com/54122/pic-of-the-day-worlds-largest-led-project), though, the UAE was only about three major architectural projects away from building an actual giant penis, so maybe it's for the best.
The Yas Hotel (http://gizmodo.com/tag/yashotel/) in Dubai's sister Emirate, Abu Dhabi (http://gizmodo.com/tag/abudhabi/), has earned the impressive (though weirdly categorized) title of the world's largest LED project (http://gizmodo.com/tag/worldslargestledproject/), which is to say it's the largest single concentration of LED lighting in the world. Given that it's comprised of about 5,300 steel panels adorned with over 5000 lighting fixtures, I don't doubt it for a second. The lighting grid can change colors and display patterns, and, though it's a stretch, play low-res video.
Underneath this curvilinear shell is a typically extravagant 500-room hotel, which, bizarrely, is divided by a Formula 1 race track, meaning that this egregious phallic symbol is regularly entered and exited by other compensatory phallic symbols (http://gizmodo.com/tag/phallicsymbols/), which is way too much for me to process, now or ever. [Inhabitat (http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/12/07/worlds-largest-led-project-completed-over-racetrack-in-abu-dhabi/) via Flavorwire (http://flavorwire.com/54122/pic-of-the-day-worlds-largest-led-project)
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The Yas Hotel (http://gizmodo.com/tag/yashotel/) in Dubai's sister Emirate, Abu Dhabi (http://gizmodo.com/tag/abudhabi/), has earned the impressive (though weirdly categorized) title of the world's largest LED project (http://gizmodo.com/tag/worldslargestledproject/), which is to say it's the largest single concentration of LED lighting in the world. Given that it's comprised of about 5,300 steel panels adorned with over 5000 lighting fixtures, I don't doubt it for a second. The lighting grid can change colors and display patterns, and, though it's a stretch, play low-res video.
Underneath this curvilinear shell is a typically extravagant 500-room hotel, which, bizarrely, is divided by a Formula 1 race track, meaning that this egregious phallic symbol is regularly entered and exited by other compensatory phallic symbols (http://gizmodo.com/tag/phallicsymbols/), which is way too much for me to process, now or ever. [Inhabitat (http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/12/07/worlds-largest-led-project-completed-over-racetrack-in-abu-dhabi/) via Flavorwire (http://flavorwire.com/54122/pic-of-the-day-worlds-largest-led-project)
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