Archive for July 16th, 2007

the earth shook »

By now you must have heard already.
An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale struck the northwestern province of Niigata, Japan collapsing houses and halting train operations. Casualties are said to increase as people searched through the rubble. A fire broke out in the nuclear reactor site in Kashiwazaki City. A tsunami warning was issued [...]

relentless construction boom »

It will be beautiful when it’s all finished.
For now, the world’s tallest building (when completed) under construction looks like this:
      
M told me that we can actually go near, so we did. At the foot of Burj Dubai:
  
Around Burj Dubai are developments that consist of another man-made island called Old Town Island. They [...]