Burj Dubai is the Tallest Building in the World
Burj Dubai, a tower under construction in the United Arab Emirates’ trade hub, became the tallest building in the world on Saturday, measuring 512.1 meters (1,680 ft).
“Burj Dubai is now taller than Taipei 101 in Taiwan, which at 508 meters has held the tallest-building-in-the-world title since it opened in 2004,” Emaar Properties, which is developing the Dubai tower, said in a statement.
“Burj Dubai has now reached 141 storeys, taller than any other building in the world.”
The developer wants the tower, set to be completed next year, to be the world’s tallest building according to all four criteria listed by the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, which measures buildings to the structural top, the highest occupied floor, the top of the roof and the tip of the spire or flagpole.
Emaar did not say how tall the finished building will be.
Once completed, Burj Dubai will have consumed 330,000 cubic metres of concrete, 39,000 tonnes of steel and 142,000 square meters of glass, Emaar said. It will have 56 lifts travelling at 1.75 to 10 metres per second.
The tower will be the centerpiece of a $20 billion (9.7 billion pound) development that will include residential, commercial and retail property.
Dubai, the Gulf Arab trade and tourism hub, has embarked on a series of mega-projects in recent years, developing three palm-shaped islands off its coast and a cluster of man-made islands shaped like a map of the world.
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i studied in deep, Burj Al Arab, and now the Burj Arab,
this is great thing, now sky scrappers is start costructing in almost every part of the World, but i know this is the beginning of the Sky scrappers.
to save land, these sky scrappers are required..
I am also a student of Architecture, and want to know the Structual system of sky scrappers, can you help me out.
Dubai realy is a city of superlatives with it hotels, skyrises and all the islands!
This is huge but I suppose they need to go for tall in such a small place. I read about the hotel in Dubai with the similar name – that is one extortionate place to stay.
today in the world of the comics was polianco dè chickens to
build dubai since 1995.
a good part of the city is over now but still lacks much to build.