There is a lot in this piece on the Khaleeji Ideology and the collapse of future and landscape that is happening in the Gulf.
“you think money can’t buy you happiness? 7bb come to Dubai”
“the color of the Khaleeji Ideology is decidedly green. The acid green of chromakey, the hacker green of a terminal screen, the subtle green of glass, which intensifies with an infinity mirror effect; the greens of astroturf and of lawns and golf courses maintained with desalinated water.”
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/horizons/498319/the-khaleeji-ideology/