Darth Vader Visits Dubai to Expose the City’s Architecture Exploits

May 19, 2012

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Darth Vader Visits Dubai to Expose the City’s Architecture Exploits

Posted on 30 November 2010. Tags: Architecture, Art Installation, creative media, media channels, monograph, Uncompromising architecture

Images © Cedric Delsaux

French photographer Cedric Delsaux has created these amazing futuristic shots, overlaying iconic Star Wars characters with images of oil rich Dubai. Amazingly, they expose the exaggerated architecture and unnecessarily expansive construction sites across the city. The images present an amazing juxtaposition of raw man-made landscapes with these fictional Star wars characters which makes seem to feel right at home. (I couldn’t help being reminded of the great bit of dialogue in this scene in ‘Clerks’)

“Dark Lens: Star Wars Dubai Invasion” uses the fast-developing city’s vast building sites and urban desert as a surprisingly realistic re-imagined backdrop to an interesting new chapter in the “Star Wars” saga.

The Millennium Falcon parked in a vast construction project in the city’s downtown seems like a perfect fit. Exhausted droids are seen hanging out around a clapped-out old Buick and terrifying At-At armored transports stride over freeways.

“Dubai was born out of a dream, a fantasized reality, a city on the verge of reality.”

–Cedric Delsaux, photographer

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Images © Cedric Delsaux

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About Fermín Beltrán

Fermín Beltrán has worked in Architecture for many years gaining a wide range of real-world design and construction experience. He is fascinated by finding alternatives methods of creating modern architecture in ways that are sustainable, elegant, comfortable and functional. He has vast experience designing and constructing a wide array of buildings ranging from state-of-the-art music halls to social housing and even small holdings in South America. He is currently completing a Masters in Advanced Sustainability at the University of Dundee in Scotland Connect with him on » LinkedIn » and on Flickr

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@facebook-538248571:disqus , you’re spot on. The bubble is bound to burst and then all that will be left standing are these empty monuments to nothingness. I can just picture a scene like in the ending of ‘planet of the apes.’… DAMN YOU….!!!!
The only difference is that the buildings in places like Dubai will not survive as well as the Head in Easter Island have…
Thanks for the great comment!
James McCafferty
Star Wars is completely over used in todays media although these are brilliant!
I was watching a program the other night about the unnecessary but phenomenal engineering feats of the Burj Al Arab 7 star hotel in Dubai and to me it seemed to echo the story of the tribes on Easter Island. Those tribes tried to out do each other by showing off their wealth, for example by carving those incredibly large figure heads. After depleting most, if not all of the resources on the island, they ended up killing each other off and all that stands there now are those huge statue heads symbolising what happens when greed gets the better of you.
After the Oil Wars of the future, the Burj Al Arab will stand tall as a testament to whatever’s left, like the moai head statues, representing the demise of humanity.Cynics never recover.