World's tallest building opening ceremony - The Burj Khalifa

The opening ceremony for the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa (previously known as the Burj Dubai). The official height was given as 828m (2,716ft), which is 320m taller than the 2nd highest the Taipei 101.

Very impressive bit of engineering.
Smugglarnsays...

- So Mr Billionaire Muslim, gonna help Gaza or the West Bank to construct amicable living conditions for their citizens and alieviate most of the crisis in that area?

- Perhaps you could you could help out in welcoming a lot of the Palestinian refugees?

- To hell with that! That shiite is for the pigdogs of the West. We just built the tallest f***ing building in the world! Now, release the burning camels!

poppajaysays...

An amazing piece of architectural engineering, of course they're going to publicise the fact they've just built the tallest building in the world. Who wouldn't?

Obviously Smugg, you know nothing of the Palestinian problem to be making such an inane comment and so far as the Muslim responsibility for helping poorer Muslim nations...it made me think about all those lucky lucky Christian kids living in abject poverty in Mexican slums thinking about how lucky they are to be bordered by the great and benevolent Christian USA. (along with all the people living in American slums??) Stones and glass houses I think.

I don't personally agree with nor like the ostentatiousness of Dubai, in the same way I don't agree/like that of Vegas and Disneyworld. I also do not like self righteous American hypocrisy.

So the workers only got $6 p/day?? Who, the designers? the structural engineers? maybe the architects? I'm sure some of the workers were low paid but not all. I mean, it's not like the USA has ever made use of cheap immigrant labour is it. (and let's not talk about the use of SLAVE labour, it only lasted three hundred years after all.)

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