Not to be outdone, Armani will open his first hotel in April in the Burj Tower in Dubai.
The building was officially classified as the world's tallest in 2004, and remained such until the opening of Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010.
It appears to be much harder for Maria to climb a small tree in "The Impossible" than it was for Ethan Hunt to climb the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol .Mr McGregor and Ms Watts have never been better.
That stunt would look ten times cooler if re-filmed with EXO-BURJ in it. .
Iconic American buildings that once held records have been bumped down by new skyscrapers in Asia which in coming years will be surpassed by new structures, including the Freedom Tower in New York City, Burj Dubai in the U.A.E., and others still on the drawing boards.
Among the structures that he photographed were Thom Mayne's Federal Building in San Francisco, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, U.A.E., and Zaha Hadid's MAXXI museum in Rome.
But given the time it takes to build such things, the boom that inspires them often swings to bust once they are finished (builders completed the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings in 1930 and 1931; the Burj Khalifa in Dubai reached its lofty heights a year after Lehman Brothers came tumbling down).
Among the world's famous landmarks that will dim their lights are the Empire State building in New York, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Kremlin and Red Square in Moscow, the Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Taiwan's entry into the ongoing competition for the tallest building in the world, it held the title after its completion in 2004, only to be surpassed in 2008 by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Intended to reach to 838 metres, Sky City would be ten metres taller than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world since its opening in 2010.
