Model makers benefit from growing real estate

Dubai: The Gulf's oil-fuelled property sector is driving many businesses, including the miniature model-making industry which is growing rapidly. From flamboyant to the downright bizarre, the miniature replicas of multi-billion dollar property developments provided a spectacle of the vast imagination of architects and master developers at Cityscape Dubai 2008, which concluded on Thursday. Whether they were ostentatious, classy, understated, elaborate or innovative, the miniature structures emerged as a major-card to various stalls for Cityscape visitors and it seems developers were all too aware of this, splashing out thousands of dirhams on creating and setting up the models ahead of the five-day real estate exhibition. Gina Vaduva, marketing executive at Al Mousa Models, said the price of the constructions varies according... [read full story]