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Burj Khalifa

May 2015

  • LA's Bradbury Building in Blade Runner

    Step into my evil modernist lair, Mr Bond: the best urban buildings in film

    From Ghostbusters’s gentrified firehouse dream to Get Carter’s corrupt carpark, the movies have always used urban architecture to make a point

November 2013

  • Philippine residents rush past a fallen tree during Typhoon Haiyan

    Twenty photographs of the week
    The Observer's 20 photographs of the week

    The best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week

October 2012

  • The world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, juts above the morning fog in Dubai. The fog is common at this time of year and is burned away as the sun rises. The tower stands at 828 metres (2,717ft).

    Eyewitness
    Eyewitness: Dubai

    Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series

January 2012

  • A view of the Empire State Building

    Skyscrapers aren't always about corporate pride before a fall

    Owen Hatherley

    Owen Hatherley: From the Empire State to the Burj Khalifa, skyscrapers predict recession. But not all towers are built by phallic capitalism

August 2011

  • Burj Khalifa

    Dubai's Burj Khalifa residents told to fast longer during Ramadan

    Muslims living above 150th floor of world's tallest tower should wait extra three minutes, cleric says

April 2011

  • Marina City, Chicago

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best tall buildings - in pictures

    The Observer's architecture critic Rowan Moore's choice of man's towering achievements

November 2010

  • Burj Dubai tower, Dubai skyline

    Dubai's towering ambitions turned out to be a mirage

    Dubai World's failure to pay its debts on time sparked a crisis last November – a year on, the emirate has lost its confidence and its autonomy

April 2010

  • Burj Khalifa

    World's tallest building, Burj Khalifa, reopens observation deck

    Dubai skyscraper reopens deck two months after elevator malfunction left tourists stranded 120 stories above ground

February 2010

  • A man sweeps at the entrance to the Burj Khalifa's observation deck

    Mystery as Burj Khalifa, world's tallest building, shuts to public

    Electrical problems blamed for closure of viewing platform but unknown if rest of tower is affected

10 January 2010

  • Burj Khalifa

    Burj Khalifa – a bleak symbol of Dubai's era of bling

    Dubai's stunning 828m skyscraper is an ideal monument for an era of credit-fuelled over-consumption – irresponsible and unsustainable, says Geraldine Bedell

4 January 2010

  • Dubai unveils world's tallest building with a nod to huge bailout by rival Abu Dhabi

    Emirate shows gratitude to its rich neighbour for bailing them out of recent financial crisis by naming the 828m tower Burj Khalifa after Abu Dhabi leader

  • Steve Rose

    Burj Dubai is the height of architecture – just don't look down

    Steve Rose

    The world's tallest building may be a triumph of beauty and ambition, but the soulless cityscape surrounding it is another matter

    • Burj Dubai set to open as world's tallest building

    • Burj Khalifa: from foundations to finished product

    • Eyewitness
      Eyewitness: View from the Burj Dubai

3 January 2010

  • Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building, set to open

  • The Burj Dubai, the world's tallest skyscraper

    Bailed out and broke, Dubai opens the world's tallest building

December 2009

  • Simon Jenkins

    When this gaseous burp explodes in the desert air, we'll still have the Burj Dubai

    Simon Jenkins
  • Dubailand, Dubai

    Towering follies: the Dubai architecture you couldn't make up

November 2009

  • Charlie Brooker

    Remember those dreamlike images of Dubai? Guess what. You were dreaming

    Charlie Brooker

    Charlie Brooker: Dubai's fantasy skyline seems to have been built on sand

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