This is pretty wild. Possibly since I never watch TV I never heard about this, but it is pretty amazing to me. Of the coast of the United Arab Emirates they are terraforming a series of islands. It is all ultra-wealthy playground non-sense of course, but it is pretty cool.
This site has some info about the project. There are several videos to watch of CG flyby promotional stuff.
Here you can see a series of time lapse aerial photos showing the construction progress.
Reminds me of Populous II!
