The World's Tallest Building: Dubai's Tower of Debt. By Laura Flanders, Nation, January 7, 2010. "New year, new symbol? Dubai's new tower fits. The $1.5 billion building unveiled in downtown Dubai Monday is the world's new tallest tower. More than half a mile high, more than two Empire State buildings tall, the Dubai tower boasts 169 stories, the world's highest swimming pool, the world's highest place of worship, and the world's tallest mountain of denial... Dubai's Sheikh Mohammed and his Chicago-based architects hail their building as a symbol of future good and all things great. There's just one glitch. According to the Sunday Times, that future involves melting the equivalent of 28 million pounds of ice a day for air conditioning, and the consumption of billions of gallons of desalinated water in a city-state that already has the world's highest per-capita carbon footprint."
2010-01-10
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