If Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia can attract more than 5 million annual visitors, each paying up to €30 each, to look inside an incomplete, non-historic and small (compared to an OA-City) building for 30 minutes or so – arguably, it is better seen from the outside – then the potential for an OA-City with all its facilities and attractions is enormous.       

Sectional view giving some idea of the enormous atriums

Close-up view of the podium level 

Marina Mandarin, Singapore – the awesome atrium impressed me enormously.  But this will be nothing compared to the potential of an Oasis-City atrium. 

Wave Pool, Palace of the Lost city, Sun City, 1992. 

The 62 acre man-made tropical jungle was created by Sol Kerzner’s landscape architect, Patrick Watson