It's not necessarily a unskilled labour problem, tall buildings in Dubai only had to have cladding made of stuff that didn't burn from 2013 onwards.
Wonder why the media isn't mentioning Terrorists......
I don't see how that was an ugly building?
I really hope that the fire safety and building evacuation procedures for that building were up to scratch, that's about the nightmare for any tall buildings.
Fortunately(?) it looks like it's mainly affecting one side of the building, which would be hopeful for a safe evac.
"90% under control now"
That's the line the Dubai authorities are giving.
It may be less intense, but it's clearly still burning, which is echoed by eyewitness comments. It does make you wonder whether the authorities are trying to play things down when they want the focus to be on the fireworks display they are about to unleash shortly.
They were all thrown up in the space of a few years, on an empty plot of sand, in a country that nobody wanted to go to.
The entire city has no more architectural merit than a Minecraft village.
Every other city in the world has history, each building either reflects its position in the landscape or defines that moment in time.
This is what Arabs don't get, they think you can buy taste with an excess of gold and marble - when in fact all that gets you is a Las Vegas Casino with better staff.
If it all burnt down tomorrow, nothing of worth would have been lost and nothing would be worth rebuilding. Everything about it is meaningless.
So no new building can have any beauty or architectural merit !
Dubai has some stunning buildings, Burj Al Arab Hotel is arguably one of the most beautiful buildings on earth let alone the cutting edge engineering involved in it's creation.
Your silly post says more about deep seeded bigotry and racism within you than it does about architecture imho.