Photo: Getty Images as found from CNN. Click on the link at the end of this post to see the full image!
The tallest building in the world! At 168 stories and 2,684 feet into the U.A.E. sky.
Apparently the lead architect partner is a firm based in Chicago, Illinois.
I've only been to Dubai once. I won a trip in fifth grade while I was living in Bahrain. My mom liked to put our names in the raffle at St. Christopher's School. The flight is very short...around 30 minutes, if I remember correctly.
Dubai always seemed more exciting than Bahrain---where I was born and the country Conan O'Brien has described as being sorta like Cleveland. And I quite like the jokes from Conan and Jimmy Fallon about Burj.
Read more here: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/01/04/dubai.skyscraper/index.html
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