Wall Street Journal (January 5)
2010/ 01/ 05 by jd in Global News
The 828-meter Burj Dubai tower officially opened. The Wall Street Journal calls the $4.1 billion skyscraper “a modern-day Tower of Babel.” Built on a foundation of sand, the Burj Dubai is mostly empty, unwanted and unneeded. Other towers, scattered from New York to Malaysia, have also been born of vanity. The Burj tops them all and even boasts the world’s heaviest gold ring, which weighs over 60 kg. For the moment, Dubai has clearly won the “quest for excess.”
