The Burj Khalifa has finally opened its doors amid fanfare and fireworks. The building is the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 828 m, some 300 m taller than its nearest rival, Taiwan’s Taipei 101. It cost over US $1.5 billion to construct and has made headlines all over the world.

OK, ok, ok … so Dubai is in crisis, but next month’s sees the opening of the Burj Dubai, which will probably mark the end of the golden era of crazy architecture in the UAE principality.

A top contractor employed on the Burj Dubai has sought legal advice for a mammoth US $4.1 billion (AED15 billion) claim related to work it carried out on the world’s tallest tower, Construction Week can …

Been a while again since anything has been added to the blog, life is busy what can we say. It seems life is so busy that you sometimes forget (especially in these times of financial crisis) what is right under your own nose. Dubai has lots of things like that, the Burj Dubai by now is probably the best known.

• Mixed-use tower with over 160 floors to open in 2009
Dubai, UAE; December 30, 2008: Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building developed by Emaar Properties, set several global milestones in high-rise construction in 2008, an epoch-making …

Every cloud has a silver lining and for the world it literally will be The Burj Dubai. The global financial crisis has ensured that the super-tall skyscraper, already the region’s pride, will cement its place …

Since its conception the final height of the Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest tower, has been the subject of much speculation.
But on Wednesday one of the architects behind the mega-project spoke for the first time …

Base jumping is not really a new phenomenon, there are some crazy people out there. So it is natural to expect that if you’re going to try and construct the tallest building in the world, …

Some love Dubai, some hate it, think what you will we have to all agree that sometimes it sounds just a little crazy. The American political show The Young Turks gives it’s slant on the …