Adrian Smith on Making Things Taller in the UAE

An interesting profile of Chicago icon Adrian Smith from Fred Bernstein over at the NY Times. Although it offers up some details on Smith that most of us already know, like his decision to leave Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to start his own firm that took off running two years ago like an architect possessed, the most captivating part of the profile comes in two parts a) that the vast majority of the famous architect’s current projects are now all in the United Arab Emirates and b) most of those projects are trying to outdo each other, height-wise, entering us into a new era of “whose building is the tallest?” once again.