Can someone help me identify a city by a photo? (It is definitely foreign)

[hyphenate]

I saw this picture at the Harrods' Real Estate website, and it mentions "international listings," but it doesn't tell me the city on this. It does mention Dubai further down on the page, so it might be from there, but I'd love to know more about the "drunken" building in it! Looks like someone was drunk when they put their drafting tools on the property!

[miscsoc]

1. those buildings

look like this one rejected proposal for the WTC site...I think it was Skidmore Owing(s?) Merrill?

[miscsoc]

2. no, it was the united architects one

possibly. remember thinking it looked cool at the time, it definetely had similar "drunken" shapes

[miscsoc]

3. yeah, it's the som one. so google them and have a look through their buildings and bob's your uncle

assuming that building actually exists it's probably theirs

or something derivative

[miscsoc]

5. this is the ua one btw

puts me in mind of a 1998 playstation game set in the future. what were they thinking when they designed that tower at the top?

[Aristus]

4. Could be the city in "Idiocracy"...

[zerox]

6. That looks more like an architectural rendering than a photo.

It may not be a real city at all.

[miscsoc]

7. i hope it is

hell of an ugly city. mind you, maybe it's something al fayed has planned for some uae state. not the most aesthetically refined fella

[hyphenate]

10. I have another picture, same shot, but with more detail

It looks real enough. My eyesight is getting worse, so it might be a computer render, I'm not totally sure.

[Kali]

12. no way - that is some artists work

not real

[tango-tee]

8. Could this be Kuala Lumpur?

A colleague was there a few months ago and brought back photos. I'll check and get back with you.

[Drunken Irishman]

9. It's Dubai.

[Frank Cannon]

15. It's kind of hard to tell.

Here's Dubai:

[Drunken Irishman]

16. My guess is that it was a proposed mass-development there.

[Frank Cannon]

18. It certainly fits in with the overblown science-fictiony aspect...

of the rest of the buildings there.

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. My first thought was Dubai...

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...but I can't find that "drunken building" in any of the
Dubai architectural oddities that I found online.
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Too bad it's cropped. I'm starting to think it IS an artist's
rendering of (once-)proposed Dubai construction.
.

[hippywife]

14. Dubai was my first thought, too.

What a fucked up mirage of a place that is, too.

[Skip Intro]

13. Beautiful - doesn't look quite real - like a painting. nt

[datasuspect]

17. that's simcity