So what happens when you leave Dubai for a few years?

[Vanessa Martin Randin]

Someone decides to put “miracle grow” on the buildings

At one time, the Dubai World Trade Centre, with its 39 floors, was the tallest building in the city.

Image Credit: Gulf News Archive

Here's a photo taken by my mum on a helicopter ride in the 1980s. These were the only buildings around the Dubai Trade Center at that time. (Image Credit: Antoinette Martin)

Today, the Burj Al Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, has blown the competition out of the water. And as you can see from the photo below the Dubai World Trade Centre’s claim to fame now, is that it’s the most orange on the city’s sky line!

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