Posted on 04/11/2016 9:03:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
DUBAI—Dubai’s flagship developer Emaar Properties on Sunday unveiled plans to construct the world’s tallest tower in the Middle Eastern emirate, set to rise slightly above the Burj Khalifa that currently holds the title.
The announcement by Emaar underlines Dubai’s ambition to establish itself as a global investment and tourism hub by often pursuing futuristic megaprojects such as artificial islands off its coast or an indoor ski slope.
Emaar aims to deliver the tower, which won't be for residential use but contain an observation deck and possibly a small hotel, before Dubai hosts the World Expo fair in 2020. It will be situated in a yet-to-be built 6-square-kilometer residential and retail district next to Dubai’s creek and adjacent to a wildlife sanctuary.
“It [the height] will probably be announced when we open the tower but it will be a notch taller than the Burj Khalifa,” said Mohamed Alabbar, chairman of Emaar, at a preview event. The Burj Khalifa, also built by Emaar, currently tops out at 828 meters.
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Is love to see that city one day. Live there? Maybe.
Yikes. the guy wants to build a building in his sandy country. why the hostility?
I thought the last “worlds tallest building” was mostly empty, and something of a commercial flop . . .
Empire State Building took decades for it to be completely full.
We’ll see how this compares to Jeddah tower which is already going up and should be quite the tallest.
Too bad America can’t be bothered to be in the tallest race anymore.
dubai is massively overbuilt. the new arab phallic symbol will just make it worse.
America is smart to sit this one out. They already proved what could be done in that race with paper and pencils, sliderules, donkey engines, gin poles, and raw muscle. And those buildings made money.
The “architects” of today just try to make computer programmed architectural data look as weird as possible, and nobody other than governments order such buildings as they will never profit from them.
How much would you pay to go up to the 342nd floor and peer wondrously at endless vistas of sand?
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