The Tallest Building In The World Is Burj Dubai

The Tallest Building In The World Is Burj Dubai: "Dubai makes history! As of today, you can find the tallest man-made building in Dubai. The skyscraper is called Burj Dubai (burj means tower in Arabic) and the tower overtook the Warsawa radio mast in Poland which measures 646 meters. The Dubai-based skyscraper measures 650 meters and it’s expected to get even bigger and will reach 819 meters to the aircraft beacon."

STL LoftStyle - Innovative Modern Furniture

STL LoftStyle - Innovative Modern Furniture: "his first piece is some amazing art/furniture. Created by Nirandr Boonnetr, who started shaping trees about 1983, these chairs are one of a kind. Boonnetr describes his techniques in the book Arborsculpture- Solutions for a Small Planet"

6 Shockingly Eccentric Converted Properties | Overseas Property Investment Blog | Nubricks

"For a small percentage of the home-buying public just the thought of moving into a traditional house (and by traditional I mean 4 walled and static) is a stomach turner. To these people moving into a neat new-build home would seem as crazy as a freshly converted Boeing 727 seems to you and I.

Here are some of the most impressively eccentric property conversions around."

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Too Elegant for Dubai?

Slender, beautiful and unbuilt skyscraper-on-water proposal for the Madinat Al Arab District in Dubai.

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7 Engineering Wonders of the Modern World: Contemporary World Record-Setting Construction

"Would you believe that the tallest bridge in France reaches higher than the Eiffel tower, or that a single dam in China can hold back 1.4 trillion cubic feet or water? Each of the projects depicted here has set at least one world record for its height, scale, daring or ingenuity. From Venice to Boston, Egypt to England, here are seven amazing engineering wonders of the modern world. Know of others? Add to the list below!"

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Building Demo Goes Wrong...

Dystopia: Welcome to the Crumbling Future of the Vegas Strip

"Las Vegas' Project CityCenter, the largest private development in the Unites States, was to be 8 acres of shops, casinos, hotels, condos, and theaters. But now it looks like big portions of the project may remain in a state of half-built rubble piles for years to come, due to the current credit crisis in the United States. So what did this shining dream of real estate moguls look like before it turned all Resident Evil: Extinction?"

Dystopia: Welcome to the Crumbling Future of the Vegas Strip: