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...DUBAI At Optifashion, Diesel's discreet frames ($110) are a hit with discerning shoppers...
Other new Wagamama openings this summer include a restaurant in Cairo, Egypt and the third location in Dubai. A Wagamama is also scheduled to debut in Cyprus this fall...
...projects don't quite measure up for Sang, a skyscraper enthusiast whose last job was at Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kong's tallest building. "When a skyscraper gets to a certain height, it becomes an icon and the city becomes very proud of it," he says. "The Burj Dubai is a sign of the level of activity, imagination and efficiency, and of the can-do attitude here in Dubai...
...everyone is dazzled. Rashid Taqui, editor of Dubai's Architecture Plus magazine, argues that the Burj Dubai's height and its location adjoining a busy shopping mall puts it at odds with its environment. "Burj Dubai is iconic, it's great, it does what it's trying to do," says Taqui, himself the architect of Dubai's minimalist Al Maha Desert Resort & Spa. "What it does for Dubai and how it evolves Dubai is a different question altogether. We're building a visionary city, but where's the vision in all this...
...break out the champagne when it becomes the world's tallest skyscraper. "I don't think there will be anything in particular; it'll be another day in the office," he says. And then he returns to the job of building this dizzying monument to the rise of Dubai...