{"id":965,"date":"2008-07-03T08:55:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T12:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=965"},"modified":"2008-07-03T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T18:00:27","slug":"the-century-for-the-arab-skyscraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"The Century for the Arab Skyscraper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/screen22.jpg\"  title=\"Imagine that\u2026\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/screen22.jpg\" title=\"Imagine that\u2026\" alt=\"Imagine that\u2026\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>One heck of an alternate timeline: Burj Dubai, the world&#8217;s tallest planned skyscraper, shown for scale in a New York City skyline where 9\/11 never happened<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spurred on by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/15\/realestate\/commercial\/15sqft.html\"  target=\"_blank\">this <em>NY Times<\/em> piece<\/a> on the Middle Eastern \/ Asian rush to construct the world&#8217;s tallest building, I dug up <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=GpjfBS7nzZ8\"  target=\"_blank\">this impressionistic, 90-second promotional YouTube<\/a>, below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=GpjfBS7nzZ8\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Do you see what I see?\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/screen25.jpg\" title=\"Do you see what I see?\" alt=\"Do you see what I see?\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In it, both man and beast are awed by the dawn of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burjdubai.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">the Burj Dubai<\/a> hotel and residence, which, at a yet-unfinished 2,087 feet and a planned 160 stories minimum, is the world&#8217;s tallest structure. (I say &#8220;planned&#8221; because the building&#8217;s final height is being kept secret, in order to intimidate would-be one-uppers.) Let&#8217;s hope that, along with the Giorgio Armani-designed hotel, the $4,000-a-square-foot office space, and the 700 private apartments, they put in one <em>unbelievable<\/em> bungee cord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One heck of an alternate timeline: Burj Dubai, the world&#8217;s tallest planned skyscraper, shown for scale in a New York City skyline where 9\/11 never happened Spurred on by this NY Times piece on the Middle Eastern \/ Asian rush to construct the world&#8217;s tallest building, I dug up this impressionistic, 90-second promotional YouTube, below. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,33,63,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}