Architecture geeks are buzzing today about the opening of world's tallest building, the Burj Dubai. Over 2,600 feet, it dwarfs the Taipei 101 and Chicago's Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower). It also takes the title of world's tallest structure today, wresting that honor away from the KVLY-TV mast in Blanchard, N.D. Patriotic trend investigator Ryan McKee thinks the Chicago architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP, the outfit that designed the Burj, has stabbed the U.S. in the back by creating such a powerful symbol on foreign soil ...


























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Monday 04 January
By Randall Krause
Well at least Sears Tower is still the tallest building in the Western world. Perhaps SOM and Adrian Smith sold their soul to the UAE, but I guess progress goes where the money is (altho even that is questionable given the financial dire straits that Dubai is experiencing in tandem with the opening of their new trophy tower).
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Thursday 07 January
By Andrewg
Tallest (freestanding) building in the Western world? That's still the CN tower. 34 years and counting.