Building is booming in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, but Human Rights Watch alleges that the migrant workers vital to constructing these projects are subject to “abusive labor practices”—and architects, it contends, are complicit in the problem. Business Week | via ArchRecord
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i'm not in either dubai or abu dhabi, but the construction workers down the street from me are paid as little as $6 US/day.
the uae is evil, architects are desperate, and the public is too dumb to notice anything but shiny pretty mind numbing excess. how are you?
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