Building boom in Angola's capital, Luanda (Chinese/oil money)

Hannah Bell

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Tue Jun-15-10 11:01 PM
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Building boom in Angola's capital, Luanda (Chinese/oil money)

Edited on Tue Jun-15-10 11:07 PM by Hannah Bell

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Angola, off the Western coast of Africa, is expected to become the next big powerhouse of Africa. It's just now recovering from a Civil War that ended in 2002, and recent exploitation of natural resources has brought tremendous wealth to this previously war-torn nation. Recently, the Angolan government is discovering many ways to diversify their economy, so they won't be so dependent on oil, and that's where many of these projects come in...

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=702740

beta.thehindu.com/.../Industry/article68857.ece

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UndertheOcean

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Tue Jun-15-10 11:04 PM
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1. "Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!"

weird , but going to risk it

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Hannah Bell

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Tue Jun-15-10 11:09 PM
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2. i didn't get that -- it's "skyscraper city," a building forum.

Edited on Tue Jun-15-10 11:12 PM by Hannah Bell

here's some of the the same pictures via google:

http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=Luanda+construction&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

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amborin

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Tue Jun-15-10 11:44 PM
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3. impossible to get a hotel room there, so full of Chinese workers

Edited on Tue Jun-15-10 11:45 PM by amborin

as for the wealth.....let's just say it's not trickling down

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leftstreet

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Tue Jun-15-10 11:45 PM
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4. Wow. How Dubai-ish

Mega skyscrapers and 80-90% of the population still live by subsistence agriculture

Interesting photos!

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Hannah Bell

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Wed Jun-16-10 01:02 AM
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5. I had the same thought -- Dubai-style. Is that what's hot in architecture these days?

Pretty soulless for my taste.

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