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Torch Tower in Dubai’s Marina District Catches Fire for Second Time

August 4, 2017

The blaze marks the second time in less than three years that the supertall luxury residential building has caught fire.

Aga Khan Bestows Architecture Awards in Dubai

Cathleen McGuigan

November 21, 2016

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Anyone who attended the symposium for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture last month couldn’t miss the irony that it was held in Dubai.

Interiors: Intersect by Lexus

Wonderwall builds a luxurious venue for Lexus in Dubai.

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

July 1, 2016

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Created by the Tokyo design firm Wonderwall, Intersect by Lexus, Dubai, is essentially a car showroom minus the cars.

Three Firms Commissioned to Design Dubai Expo Pavilions

The designs center on three themes: mobility, sustainability, and opportunity.

Rebecca Seidel

March 16, 2016

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Foster + Partners, Grimshaw Architects, and Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) will design a trio of pavilions for Expo 2020 in Dubai. The three firms beat ten competitors in a global competition whose results were announced on March 12.

Dubai Hosts Inaugural Design Week

Fred A. Bernstein

November 16, 2015

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The organizers of the first Dubai Design Week chose as its opening night speaker an architect who has never built in Dubai, despite having proposed several projects there.

Burj Khalifa

The completion of the world’s tallest skyscraper raises intriguing questions about the significance of this gleaming, spiraling form.

Blair Kamin

August 16, 2010

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Iconic skyscrapers, especially those that strive for the fleeting title of “world’s tallest building,” are rarely the progeny of cold logic.

A World Within a World

Armani Hotel Dubai

Suzanne Stephens

August 16, 2010

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As one more sign of the decline of the West and its dominance in things ultra-chic, Milanese fashion designer Giorgio Armani chose the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai for the setting of his touted debut in the hotel business.

Burj Khalifa

Shedding Light on the World's Tallest Building: Three firms illuminate the Burj Khalifa with alternating restraint and spectacle.

Linda C. Lentz

August 16, 2010

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From a distance, the half-mile-high Burj Khalifa in Dubai tapers to a near imperceptible spire like a mirage along the windswept desert coast of the Persian Gulf.