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...Rashid al-Maktoum to lead the Dubai construction boom. The 70/30 business-government partnership, run by chairman Mohammed Ali Alabbar, started taking its expertise on the road in 2002, achieving a market cap worth $20 billion. Currently, in addition to constructing Burj Dubai, touted as the world's tallest skyscraper, Alabbar is busy with undertakings from hotels in Miami to a convention center in Hyderabad, India. His eye-catching projects include the $26.6 billion construction of an entire new metropolis in the Saudi Arabian desert to be called King Abdullah Economic City and a global hotel and condo partnership with...
...view from the top of Beijing's newest and tallest skyscraper is to die for. Still a year from completion, the upper floors are a mess of flapping safety nets and tangled steel wires, but there are glimpses of what will be a spectacular, 360-degree panorama. The outlook to the west is particularly stunning?a sweep down the wide swath of Chang'an Avenue, past the Forbidden City over roofs and parks all the way out to the hazy crests of the Western Hills. It's the best view in China's booming capital, and you'd expect...
...sometimes a struggle for him. Still, he adored the trip. At a nature preserve in Australia, he let a huge python wrap itself around his neck. In Auckland, New Zealand, he sipped espresso and watched in amazement as thrill seekers, attached by wires, leaped from the Sky Tower--the tallest structure in the southern hemisphere--in what is called a controlled BASE jump. At the trip's end, he thanked his daughters profusely and, eyes twinkling, said, "You know, I have other dreams...
Today, Bostonians can turn their radio dials to 95.3 WHRB-FM to hear everything from classical programming to jazz and blues to under-the-radar rock acts. From its radio array atop One Financial Center, the tallest building in downtown Boston, Harvard’s radio station sends its sound out across the greater Boston area. But in 1956, Harvard Radio Broadcasting, Inc. (WHRB) was only available to those plugged in to Harvard’s electric system. Unlike FM/AM radios, which interpret signals received from the air, WHRB’s signals were carried through University electrical wiring. Thus...
...industrial face; cross to the west side for the regal and religious. TALKS Head to Southwark Cathedral for the "sermon" by Renzo Piano, co-architect of Paris' Pompidou Center, on the grand design for his London Bridge Tower. Dubbed the "Shard of Glass," it should stand as Europe's tallest building when completed in 2010. Then drop in at the Barbican to hear Rem Koolhaas, a fierce critic of skyscrapers, at the Big Debate on London's soaring skyline. PASSEGGIATA Armed with a bit more knowledge, it'll be time to hit the streets. On the Passeggiata (Italian...