As for rules, its quite simple: Get from an airplane at DXB to the Burj Khalifa observation desk and back to the airport.
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Megan Horst Hatch
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Posted 11.29.2011
In the Buttliere family’s Buffalo Grove home, the Eiffel Tower shares a table with the World Trade Center complex, Toronto’s CN Tower, and Dubai...
Posted 11.14.2011
Ever wanted to spend a day in Dubai? Now you can skip the flight and beat the heat by watching a full day's time lapse of the city's skyline below. ...
Posted 11.23.2011
Here's one that will make your stomach churn. A man has uploaded a video of himself climbing to the top of the Red Gates Administrative Building in...
HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Needham | Posted 10.02.2011
At six feet, Adrian Smith is fairly tall for an architect. But now, with the announcement that his Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, will begi...
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...
AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 05.28.2011
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A tiny speck more than half a mile (800 meters) in the air, a French skyscraper climber successfully scaled the wo...
J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.25.2011
When the Burj Khalifa opened, attention focused on this Emerald City-like apparition.
Daniel Levin | Posted 05.25.2011
At last week's Art Dubai government censors played a larger than expected role in policing the display of contemporary art.
Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011
Chicago architects Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill have been selected by a Saudi Arabian investment firm to design the latest entry in the world's talles...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Grif Peterson | Posted 05.26.2012