A striking example is the new financial city, a vast complex of futuristic skyscrapers being build out of steel, concrete and glass that makes you forget that you are in the middle of the desert, but the desert and the associated complex weather elements are still out there. The hectic expansion of the city's perimeter towards all sides deep into the desert, always an alien and harsh environment for human life, requires a better awareness, reassessment, and utilization of the local traditional architectural solutions that worked for thousands of years tweaked to modern realities, and the integration of the collective global experience of others facing similar daunting tasks...
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