Reality vs. Vision

I had blogged earlier in July about the Burj in Dubai, soon-to-be the tallest building in the world, being almost ready.

Well...just read that the tower is now the world's tallest free-standing structure, surpassing Toronto's CN Tower. (Note: the 2nd link in the previous sentence puts the Burj at #2, behind a KVLY-TV mast in Fargo, North Dakota. Should look into the source of that edit! Must be their way of trying to get Fargo on the world map. Thought the movie (a very good one too!) did that but maybe they have major phallic envy. :)

See the picture at the link. Compared to the architect's schematic (also see many pictures in the "almost ready" link above), it looks ugggh! Maybe it will look grander when lit up at night.

But then maybe our visions rarely meet the reality. (Me a glass-half-empty kinda guy? Huh? How'd you guess?)