Sentence examples for high burj from inspiring English sources

In the global race for vertical bragging rights that can seem like perpetual civic penis envy, the 828 metre high Burj Khalifa (nearly 300 meters taller than the CN Tower) is currently top banana.

The 828-metre-high Burj Dubai tower was quickly renamed Burj Khalifa, after the saviour, Sheikh Khalifa.

The Emirate evidently expanded too fast and ran up heavy debts by embarking on vanity projects of doubtful financial viability, such as the 810 meter-high Burj Dubai skyscraper — the highest in the world — and the artificial islands built in the shallow waters along its coast, to provide room for miles of luxury villas.

While the current record holder, the 828m-high Burj Khalifa in Dubai, took five years to "top out", Zhang says his proposed 220-storey "vertical city" will take only seven months - four for the foundations, and three for the tower itself.

Nothing is heard now of a plan to build a tower higher even than Burj Dubai in the port area.

Properties as diverse as Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Ian Schrager's renovated Clift in San Francisco, the high-tech fantasy Burj al-Arab in Dubai, and Japanese "love hotels," where couples go for privacy, are detailed through photography, architecture, furniture, advertisements and works of art.

The result was a series of six huge steps, 62 metres high, that formed the Burj Khalifa of their day.

Shanghai's World Financial Centre is half as high again and the Burj al Arab tower in Dubai, now reaching completion, will be more than 2,000ft, but Beijing knows how to impress with more than sheer size.

OUTSIDE our door, high up in the Burj Khalifa, we board one of the tower's 57 elevators and are catapulted even higher, to the 123rd floor, as if we were weightless objects being effortlessly lifted through the air.

Not to be confused with Kingdom Centre or Mile High Illinois Kingdom Tower ( Burj Mamlakah), previously known as Mile-High Tower, also known as the Mile High Tower, is a skyscraper currently under construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, at a preliminary cost of SR4.6 billion.

Armani Hotel, Dubai The first of two fashion-brand hotels to open this year in Dubai (there's also a Palazzo Versace in the pipeline), the Armani Hotel will take up floors five to eight and two higher levels of the Burj Khalifa.