Last night my buddy Nate left, and to thank us for letting him stay with us he took Liz and I out to a nice restaurant - "Nina" at the One and Only Royal Mirage Hotel. Nina is a 'new-wave Indo-European' restaurant, which sounds a little wacky but it's really quite tasty.

After dinner we went upstairs to the Rooftop Terrace bar, which I talked about about a year ago (see View of the Palm). From there you get a great view of the Palm Jumeirah, which even though it's open is still highly under construction.

One of the buildings supposedly under construction is by Donald Trump (of hair and The Apprentice fame). I thought I had mentioned it here before but I guess not, it's called the The Palm Trump International Hotel and Tower.

I say "supposedly under construction" because each time I see an artist's rendering of the project, it looks way different, and to me that doesn't bode well for the project. I'm getting shades of Hydropolis (see DuBiotech and the Hydropolis Equation).

At first it looked like a ... well, to say 'tulip' or 'flower' would be generous. A 'golden blob' is more like it.



Then it got all spikey.



The newest one I've seen is spikey and hollow.



I like it.

But maybe that's because the monorails look like Disney's.

(And I'm a sucker for Disney's monorails.)

Either way, though, as of last night there's nothing there yet.