Burj Dubai, fog, traffic patterns

Here are a series of pictures of the Burj Dubai (world’s tallest building) as we get closer to it. Our original intention was to go to Festival City – one of the many malls – but if you miss your turn-off, you are up a creek. It is often easier to just change your destination than to try to get back on the path to where you originally wanted to go. So, our destination changed to the Dubai Mall.
These pictures were taken at dusk and, yes, there is a significant amount of pollution, but this was also the evening of our foggy day (see previous entry) and there was still a significant amount of fog hanging around. Warm and foggy, imagine! In fact, we had to run the windshield wipers because it was condensing on the outside of the windshield and making it nearly impossible to see to drive.
The frame of the building has reached its highest point, now they are just filling it out. They haven’t announced exactly how tall it has turned out to be, yet.

Foggy foggy dew

This is the view out our window this morning. It is a little disconcerting to see this when you are on the 8th floor.

Below you can see the extent of the visibility during our drive to work. Luckily, it is New Year’s Eve and it would seem that several people took a vacation day, so traffic was not as horrible as I had imagined it would be.