Atlantis hotel on one of the artificial islands, "The Palm", and the entry to the tunnel leading to it. Of course the hotel comes with a whole bunch of superlatives, but I remember only the number of imported dolphins living in its lagoon. It's 28. Now, if anybody feels like counting the windows - feel free and let me know. This way, I don't have to look it up and can still provide some more big sounding trivia next time.By the way, if you feel like owning your very own island - I hear that islands of the group "The World" (as you can guess, artificial islands together forming roughly the outline of the world) are up for grabs, starting at around US$100,000. A true bargain, especially with a strong Euro...
Big Daddy. The "Burj Dubai". At more than 700 meters, the 160 plus-story skyscraper surpassed the former highest building in the world, the Taipei Financial Center, by more than 200 meters in height. Apparently, many construction workers would sort of camp for a certain period of time on the various levels of the building under construction, as it would have been too troublesome to climb the tower again every day. Remember, the 58, 10-meters-per-second elevators would not yet be running for them... There's a whole blog on building the tower, if you care to read more about what fans hail enthusiastically as the city's new iconic landmark and critics call the new tower of Babel, go here.
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