Over the last few decades the Muslim world has faced a dilemma. With boosted economies from oil profits and increased international interest and investment, the cities of the Arabian Desert have been going through a period of growth. This, in itself, is not necessarily negative. However, with the booming economies have come booming real estate markets, and one of the major issues in the Middle East today is how to reconcile the hundreds of new structures with the traditional architecture of the Islamic world. Garry Martin, in an article entitled "Building of the Middle East Today-in Search of a Direction", identifies three ways that modern Islamic architects approach this problem. The first is to ignore the past, and focus on the most efficient Western styles available, as evidenced in the hotel near the Holy Mosque in Makkah to the left. This technique scars any city of Islamic origin because it creates an alien environment and a feeling of randomness within the cities. The second path Islamic architecture has taken, which is the most common today, is to integrate the efficiency of Western design while maintaining an Islamic exterior. This path has resulted in high rises with traditional arches and domes seemingly "grafted" onto their exteriors, such as the Hilton in Makkah below. The final approach is to understand the essence of Islamic architecture and to allow modern, Western architecture to be used as a tool to implement structures conciliatory to those ideals and goals. "Architects working today...have an opportunity to explore and transform the possibilities of the machine age for the enrichment of architecture in the same way that craftsmen explored the nature of geometrical and arabesque patterns." This final solution seems extremely difficult to abide by but it basically entails maintaining a semblance of regional identity and a relevance to "the eternal principals of Islam" as Islamic architecture has traditionally done.