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Celebrating burj khalifa يحتفل برج خليفة

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Uploaded by on Jan 4, 2010

The building formerly known as the Burj Dubai -- at 2,717 feet, easily the world's tallest skyscraper -- opened today, and as if to explicitly acknowledge the monumental hubris surrounding the occasion, Dubai's leaders rechristened the building for Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, leader of Abu Dhabi and financial savior to his economically ailing neighbor.

The obvious comparison here is to the Tower of Babel, which Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne notes in his article today on the Dubai skyscraper's opening. What popped into my mind, however, while reading that the building is still largely unoccupied and may actually put more downward pressure on Dubai real estate prices, is another building -- this one in North Korea -- symbolizing the kind of insecurity that motivates some regimes to build what eventually become monuments to past delusion. Behold, Pyongyang's Ryugyong Hotel:
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قالت شركة "إعمار" العقارية إنها ستفتتح رسميا "برج دبي" الذي تعده الأعلى في العالم اليوم الموافق 4 يناير 2010 ، وكانت وسائل إعلامية نقلت عن الشركة في السابق نيتها إفتتاحالبرج في الثاني من ديسمبر الماضي بالتزامن مع العيد الوطني للإتحاد.

يشار أن الشركة ابقت ارتفاع البرج سراً إلا أن مصادر قدرت ارتفاعه بـ 818 متراً وهو رقم قد تستخدمه الشركة في حفل افتتاح البرج بطريقة ما.

وتكتمل مع افتتاح البرج معظم معالم "وسط مدينة برج دبي" التي تحتوي على إستثمارات بقيمة 20 مليار دولار تضم "دبي مول" و"المدينة القديمة" و "النافورة الراقصة

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