PHOTOS: Afternoon Tea At The Burj Al Arab
We begin with champagne and a cup of tea chosen from an extensive list that spans a few pages of the menu.
We begin with champagne and a cup of tea chosen from an extensive list that spans a few pages of the menu.
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 07.10.2011
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A man committed suicide on Tuesday in a plunge of 39 floors from a segment of the world's tallest skyscraper in Du...
Posted 05.25.2011
Giorgio Armani's Armani Hotel Dubai opened in the Burj Khalifa tower today. Armani said, "Yesterday when I arrived and saw the hotel, I felt really em...
AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 05.25.2011
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Visitors on the observation deck of the world's tallest tower heard a loud boom, then saw dust that looked like sm...
AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 05.25.2011
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The world's tallest skyscraper has unexpectedly closed to the public a month after its lavish opening, disappointi...
Posted 05.25.2011
(AP) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Dubai opened the world's tallest skyscraper Monday, and in a surprise move renamed the gleaming glass-and-metal to...
AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2011
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — When work began in 2004 to build the world's tallest tower, Dubai's confidence also was sky high with a host of me...
Posted 05.25.2011
The Burj Khalifa has hardly struggled to attract attention, or photographers, since opening in Dubai last week with an elaborate celebration. But here...
Daily Intel. | Daily Intel | Posted 05.25.2011
So how's the view?...
Posted 05.25.2011
While the Burj Dubai has generated substantial attention - now the world's tallest tower -, another spectacle lies just outside the structure: the Dub...
Posted 05.25.2011
The Burj Khalifa formally opened tonight to an elaborate fireworks and lights show at the Dubai Mall. The celebration of the world's tallest tower in...
AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 05.25.2011
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai is set to open the world's tallest building amid tight security on Monday, celebrating the tower as a bold f...
AP | BARBARA SURK and TAREK EL-TABLAWY | Posted 05.25.2011
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates has pledged to stand behind foreign and domestic banks in the country, offering additiona...
Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011
History repeats. Like the Empire State building before it, the Dubai tower was built in a global depression when cheap labor was plentiful -- as were the dreams of the ambitious and affluent.
NYMag.com | NYMag | Posted 05.25.2011
So how's the view?...
Posted 05.25.2011
Dubai's decade of oil wealth, property speculation and wild dreams created a roster of projects that are awe inspiring in their ambition. The world'...
Posted 05.25.2011
Burj Khalifa: That is the new name for Burj Dubai, the world's tallest tower, which officially opened today, Jan. 4, 2010. Burj Khalifa, which tran...
Posted 05.25.2011
Every decade brings with it new buildings that stir the imagination and push the limits of what was sought possible in terms of design. In the slidesh...
Tom Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011
Visible from space, Dubai has completed construction of the World's largest structure, the 110 story "Burj Dubai Middle Finger Tower."
AP | BARBARA SURK | Posted 05.25.2011
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — There's no greater symbol of the shifting fortunes in the Gulf than the surprise renaming of the world's talle...
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 05.25.2011
Dubai may be the most environmentally unsustainable place on earth, certainly among the most conspicuously extravagant, reportedly with the world's highest per-capita rate of natural resource consumption.
AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 05.25.2011
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — With its world's tallest building nearing completion, Dubai said Sunday it is embarking on an even more ambitious ...
Associated Press | BARBARA SURK | Posted 05.25.2011
Developers of a 1,680-foot skyscraper still under construction in oil-rich Dubai claimed Saturday that it has become the world's tallest building, sur...
Oneika Raymond | Posted 05.20.2012