IVIV: More Golden Fang

[Robin Landseadel]

On Dec 2, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> On Dec 2, 2009, at 9:08 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>>> It's the Golden Fang, again—still.
>>>
>> Almost literally. Kharzi's brother, Head of the Opium trade.......

Saw this hotel while watching the Daily Show of 12/1/09:

http://tinyurl.com/yfde3gu

	"This extraordinary investment in state-of-the-art construction
	technology stretches the limits of the ambitious urban
	imagination in an exercise that is largely due to the power of
	excessive wealth."

	The Burj Al Arab (Arabic: "Tower of the Arabs", also
	known as "Arab Sail") is a luxury hotel located in Dubai, United
	Arab Emirates. At 321 m (1,050 ft), it is the second tallest
	building in the world used exclusively as a hotel. The Burj Al
	Arab stands on an artificial island 280 m (920 ft) out from
	Jumeirah beach, and is connected to the mainland by a private
	curving bridge. It is an iconic structure, designed to symbolize
	Dubai's urban transformation and to mimic the sail of a boat.

	Sam Wollaston writing in The Guardian described the hotel as
	"...fabulous, hideous, and the very pinnacle of tackiness - like
	Vegas after a serious, no-expense-spared, sheik-over".
	
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Al_Arab

While it looks like a sail, it also looks like a fang. The Burj Al  
Arab was completed in 2000.