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Is Dubai’s Genie Back in the Bottle?

by Ted Karsch | December 9, 2008

Over the past five years as real estate prices here at home have risen to epic levels and then precipitously fell many people in the United States were unaware of a similar meteoric increase in construction and rise in real estate prices in the Middle East. No one place exemplifies the great world wide real [...]

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Architecture

Introducing the World’s Tallest Building: Mile-High Tower in Saudi Arabia

by Joshua Dorkin | March 31, 2008

Update 1/4/2010: The Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest skyscraper, opened today in Dubai, renamed as the Burj Khalifa, an impressive 828 meters, or 2717 feet, tall. While not a mile high, as initially speculated, the new tower is still 320 meters taller than the next tallest skyscraper, the Taipei 101 tower. . . . and [...]

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