JANUARY 2010: REFLECTIONS COMPLEX

Reflections Complex, owned by Cleopatra Group, was designed entirely in Second Life by PUD & David Denton Architect.

The construction of “Reflections” project in El Sheikh Zayed City, a 130,000-square-meter shopping complex with a cinema, retail store, restaurants and a hotel has started in June 2009.

The Turkish contractor: Artiyapi, has reached an important milestone in the construction of the project and its completion is estimated to be in 2012.

OCTOBER 2009: SECOND LIFE

In his historic speech at Cairo University in Egypt in June 2009, President Obama spoke of a vision to “create a new online network, so a teenager in Kansas can communicate instantly with a teenager in Cairo.” That vision has taken one step toward reality.

Through the efforts of Amr Attia PUD's CEO, and California-based architect David Denton, more than 70 professional architects, students, journalists and government officials met in the Internet-based virtual world Second Life and took a tour in Refflections project. A four-person panel led the October 18 online meeting, during which participants discussed Second Life as a tool for professional design and education.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP1vr3zSVCE

Denton noted that collaborative building and designing in Second Life is “clearly the way of the future,” which enhances the quality of work by supporting “a more comprehensive collaboration with people from different parts of the world … for more interesting, and more comprehensive, designs.”