Cultural entrepreneur Michael Schindhelm came to Dubai with a big project in mind: helped by the petrodollars of the sheikhs, he aimed to construct an exquisite landscape, complete with an opera house and museums. It was a project of superlatives - but then came the financial crash and it was called off. Only abandoned construction sites are left now. Schindhelm writes about the failure in his book «Dubai Speed» ARTS.21 went to meet him.