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Issue No 48, August 2007 |
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Dubai gets the World’s Tallest
According to reports citing a statement recently released by Emaar Properties, “Burj Dubai” has become the tallest building in the world at 512.1 metres (1,680 feet), surpassing Taiwan’s Taipei 101, which is 508 metres (1,667 feet) tall. Burj Dubai, or Dubai Tower, now has 141 storeys, more than any other building in the world.
The reports state further as follows:
The project was launched in January 2004. Even though the final height of the skyscraper has not been officially confirmed, it is likely to be more than 700 metres
(2,296 feet) tall and have more than 160 storeys.
Burj Dubai “became the tallest building in the world in just 1,276 days. It will have cost one billion dollars by the time it is completed at the end of 2008”.
Burj Dubai is the centerpiece of a $20 billion venture featuring the construction of a new district, ‘Downtown Burj Dubai’, which will house 30,000 apartments and the world’s largest shopping mall.
However, there is competition from Dubai itself, where the city’s other major property developer, Nakheel, has announced it will build ‘Al Burj’ or ‘The Tower’, whose projected height also remains a closely guarded secret.
Nakheel is the developer of feats like the three palm tree- shaped man made islands and ‘The World’, a cluster of some 300 islands resembling a blurred vision of the planet’s nations being built off Dubai’s coast.
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