The
New Yorker
has set its eyes (or rather two pairs of eyes) on the
Burj Khalifa
to wonderful effect.
Hendrik Hertzberg
takes a shot at the decision to rename the tower
, calling the building the "Burj formerly known as Dubai".
Paul Goldberger
, the magazine's architecture correspondent, writes
a lovely, sprawling essay on the tower that talks about its place in Dubai
(which he calls "a cross between Hong Kong and Las Vegas that tries to operate as if it were Switzerland").
Some excerpts: "The tower is a shimmering silver needle, its delicacy as startling as
its height. You would think that anything this huge would dominate the
sky, but the Burj Khalifa punctuates it instead."
