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If the project goes ahead, it would top the Taipei 101 Tower, the Shanghai World Financial Centre and Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers – the world's three tallest buildings after the 828m Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

Among those due to be handed over this year is the Hotel Missoni, which follows the footsteps of Gucci and Armani, and will open its first property in Kuwait this September.

Six Construct, a Belgian company that helped to build the Burj Khalifa, and its Saudi partner, El Seif Engineering Contracting, are vying for the project against Australia’s Multiplex Construction and Saudi BinLadin Group, one of the biggest construction companies in the region

With the Burj Khalifa and Chicago's Trump Tower, the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has had quite a supertall skyscraper run lately. And guess what? The run ain't done. SOM just opened another supertall, this one called the China World Trade Center Tower. It's Beijing's tallest building.

The 2010 ACN Arab Technology Awards will take place at the highest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa. This year’s ceremony will be hosted by the Armani Hotel and will see over 300 of the most important and influential figures in the Middle East enterprise market gather for one night.

Dubai World is prepared to sell prized assets including previously ringfenced ports firm DP World in a bid to raise as much as $19.4 billion to repay creditors, a document obtained by Reuters showed. The document, presented on July 22 to creditors at Dubai's lavish Atlantis Hotel, also revealed that the state-owned conglomerate's debt stood at $39.9 billion

Cluttons, property consultants and estate agents, estimates there are about 2,000 owners’ associations in Dubai with Burj Khalifa having seven. The Real Estate Regulatory Agency (Rera) has set an October deadline to complete all documentation process and register owners’ associations.

The four venues - all located in Downtown Dubai, the new heart of the city – are in close proximity to Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, and offer a spectacular ambience set against The Dubai Fountain, the world's tallest performing fountain that sways to rhythmic music. Burj Park, Burj Khalifa Steps, Burj Plaza and Emaar Boulevard are now all set to host events – from massive concerts for thousands of fans to elegant corporate gatherings to high-end catwalk fashion shows, in customized settings

Teaming with Fortune magazine, the design rag employed a panel of discerning judges, who placed Sorella among the ranks of NYC's Ace Hotel, Soho House in Berlin and Dubai's new Armani Hotel. Explains Wallpaper*, "Our shortlist ranges from grand luxury openings to inspiring relaunches of old favourites and contemporary openings in up-and-coming destinations."

Not that there wasn’t a lot of spectacle along with the technical ingenuity. Take the daring Burj Khalifa, a mixed-use skyscraper in Dubai designed by Adrian Smith (at the time an architect at Skidmore Owings & Merrill) and completed in January; it soars to 2,717 feet, past every other structure in the world. But the Burj, for all its glitter and quantitative abundance, is also an astounding technological achievement.