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Burj Dubai

The air in Dubai is much clearer than it was two weeks ago when I could barely see the world’s largest building, Burj Dubai – http://www.burjdubai.com.  Oddly, when I saw it today from the same place as last time (near the creek), it looked much taller and closer than last time.  Must be an optical illusion.  What I thought were antennas on its top last time turn out to be cranes still lifting construction materials.  This building is much larger than I thought (604 meters and 159 floors or about 50% higher than the Sears Building), but there is nothing around it of height so the scale is difficult to judge.  Although the advertisements around town show wonderful landscaping in the area including water and fountains, the reality is that it is in one big sand box of construction at this time far from anything.  Build it and they will come… I guess. 



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