Auteur : MelleFloriane
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Envoyé : 22 novembre 2008
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Skyhaze was formed in the middle of 2005 as a means to produce relaxation music for a local Complimentary Therapist (Venus Light Therapies). As the songs debuted on Myspace, interest in the project increased and the decision was made to make Skyhaze a full-time project. Skyhaze consists solely of Steve Cowan (of FearOfHatred and PlaguesFire fame) who is usually found singing and playing guitar in Death and Black Metal projects. The first album to be created was 'Score For An Unwritten Movie' in late 2005. This was quickly followed by the sophomore effort 'Evening Songs' which debuted a more beat-orientated feel. Finally, in 2006 the album 'The Year That Never' was created. This was a return to the sound created by 'Score' but with greater epic scope. Due to the popularity of PlaguesFire and FearOfHatred, Skyhaze is on a metaphorical back-burner. However, it is planned that a new album will see release in 2007.

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/63869?ns=guardianpageName=Art+and+design%3A+How+Dubai%27s+fantasy+skyline+tumbled+to+earthch=Art+and+designc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Art+and+design%2CArchitecture%2CWorld+news%2CDubai+%28News%29%2CCredit+crunch+%28Business%29%2CBusiness%2CGlobal+economy+%28Business%29%2CCulture+sectionc5=Art%2CCredit+Crunch%2CBusiness+Markets%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CArchitecturec6=Steve+Rosec7=2008_11_21c8=1121986c9=articlec10=GUc11=Art+and+designc12=Architecturec13=c14=h2=GU%2FArt+and+design%2FArchitecture" width="1" height="1" //divpThe fireworks have fizzled out, 4,000 lobster shells are being scraped into the bins, and Lily Allen's probably reaching for the paracetamol – but, she won't be the only person in Dubai with a hangover today. Yesterday saw the a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/21/atlantis-palm-dubai-kylie-lohan"opening of the Atlantis Palm Jumeirah Beach/a, yet another flash new architectural marvel in Dubai, augmented by yet another onslaught of superlatives, celebrities, and headlines across the world. /ppCome this morning, it's not just the champagne that's gone flat. It has finally happened: the Dubai bubble has burst. Architecture-spotters like myself have looked on in amazement, or rather incredulity, at the way the tiny emirate has continued to unveil ever grander construction projects – taller skyscrapers, huger hotels, vaster artificial islands – in a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/25/architecture.middleeast"apparent defiance of the global credit crunch/a./ppNow, that crunch has hit home. This week's a href="http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/dailynews/2008/11/staff_axed_as_credit_crisis_hits_dubai.html" Architect's Journal reports/a that "architects and developers in Dubai are freezing recruitment and making redundancies as the emirate's real-estate market begins to crumble." Large developers in Dubai are laying off staff, including Emaar the company behind the a href="http://www.burjdubai.com/" Burj Dubai/a, the world's tallest structure, the magazine reports. Other headline-grabbing projects like the Palm Deira, the next artificial island planned off the coast, are on hold indefinitely, and foreign architects and construction specialists out there, such as RMJM and Ramboll Whitbyird, are making staff cuts or freezing recruitment as a result, says the AJ. /ppAccording to one British architect I spoke to, who was in Dubai just 10 days ago, the situation is even worse than that. "Projects are being pulled left right and centre," he said. "Unless they've been funded by a sovereign wealth fund, they're being pulled. A lot of things have to be redesigned more cheaply, to sell at lower prices. Where people have made first down payments on projects, they're not making the second one. And a lot of what has been completed will be standing empty."/ppNot that anyone in Dubai will officially admit any of the above. The general climate is one of denial, say insiders. "Nobody wants to lose face, and everybody's trying to put a gloss on bad news. No one's come out and cancelled anything, but a lot of things are 'on hold' indefinitely." /ppDubai's "build it and they will come" philosophy has worked spectacularly so far. It has successfully jostled itself on to the world stage, largely by pulling off previously unthinkable architectural feats and boosting them to the skies with juicy publicity. Remember when David Beckham was buying a house on the Palm? How many people have seen him there since? Still, the publicity worked: properties on the Palm changed hands for huge sums before they were even built, peaking at a preposterous £5m. Today those houses are apparently closer to £1.8m, down from £2.7m just two months ago. /ppReality however, has finally come to town: the Dubai Financial Market – the general stock index – has fallen from a high of 6,315 earlier this year to just 2,012 yesterday. Emaar's share price has plummeted 79% in less than a year; according to some estimates, property prices have fallen by as much as 49% in parts of the Dubai market. The overall figure is much lower, in the region of 4%, but this is a place that's become accustomed to its figures only going in one direction and a lot of people are being caught out by the turnaround./ppSo now, it's more a case of "don't build it, because nobody can afford to come." The general destruction of wealth in the rest of the world will not help Dubai's tourist industry either. Fewer people have the income to afford a Dubai-standard holiday, and even those who do might be put off by the authorities' response to the a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/17/dubai" recent "sex on the beach" scandal/a, in which two Britons were jailed for three months for their public canoodling. Needless to say, we can expect discounts on rooms at the Atlantis Palm Jumeirah Beach pretty soon. /ppWe cannot simply write off Dubai though. It's already too well established for that and it's still in a very strong position to emerge as a dominant global financial centre, having taken less of a battering than, say, London or New York in the past year. The Burj Dubai is likely to remain the tallest building in the world for quite some time (surely nobody in the world has the appetite to challenge it?), but for the time being, the a href="http://www.nakheel.com/en/corporate" elaborate man-made coastline of the future/a that has become Dubai's abiding image is likely to remain just that – an image./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/architecture"Architecture/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/dubai"Dubai/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/creditcrunch"Credit crunch/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/globaleconomy"Global economy/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Artscountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227284156048112116220444056"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Artscountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227284156048112116220444056" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a