Posted on 04/08/2008 9:36:28 AM PDT by Squidpup
Emaar Properties' iconic Burj Dubai has reached a towering 629 metres, smashing the existing record to become the world’s tallest manmade structure, the developer said on Monday.
The 160-storey tower, already the world’s tallest building and tallest free-standing structure, has now surpassed the 628.8-metre high KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota, US.
The KVLY-TV mast, used for transmitting television signals, had held the title of world’s tallest supported structure since 1963.
Emaar Chairman Mohamed Ali Alabbar said the new record was another milestone for the Burj Dubai, placing the city in the global spotlight once again.
“With over 160 storeys now, the most number of liveable floors in any building in the world, Burj Dubai is already pushing the frontiers in architecture, construction and engineering excellence,” Alabbar said in a statement.
Emaar plans for the Burj Dubai to eventually be the tallest structure in the world in all four of the criteria listed by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).
The council measures height to the structural top, the highest occupied floor, to the top of the roof, and to the tip of the spire, pinnacle, antenna, mast or flag pole.
The Burj Dubai will not be officially recognised as the world's tallest structure until it is completed in early 2009.
Emaar has remained tight lipped over the final height, but it is rumoured to be around 900 metres.
Local media reports last year said the final height would be 818 metres, citing architects drawings posted on the internet.
The Burj Dubai is to be the centrepiece of a city within a city, Downtown Burj Dubai. The $20 billion development as a whole will include 30,000 homes, nine hotels, 6.2 acres of parkland, 19 residential towers, the Dubai Mall, and a 30-acre manmade lake.
However, Emaar’s triumph may not last long with Dubai developer Nakheel planning to build its own 1,200-metre high tower, which would comfortably surpass the Burj Dubai.
The tower is expected to be located on Dubai’s Arabian Canal, a $61 billion project being developed by Dubai-based developer Limitless.
King Nimrod builds again.
The problem is we probably can't find any Christians who are THAT fanatical about what they believe.
Can you say Babel? Sure, I knew you could!
There are some earlier threads.
An airplane strike won’t occur until the windows are all in place and the building is stacked full of rugriders. It will occur during one of the five daily prayer times. That way they’ll all be on their kneews and able to promptly kiss their ass goodbye as the collapse takes place.
There so much reinforced concrete in that thing a 747 would probabaly bounce off it.
An Iranian missile on the other hand...
This thread seems to have got a bit negative.
Good for the Dubaians (?). They’re building tall buildings and keeping engineers in business.
Or would FReepers prefer that the Dubaians lived in a terrorist squat?
I like where you’re going with this!
That is a whole different kind of construction. I don’t know how it would behave if hit by an aircraft, but it would be a very different structural problem than faced by the WTC towers.
It’s just envy. Too bad the most sought after commodity in the world after fresh water is sitting under a g-damn dessert and it was just a smudge on someones sandal till we figured out how to extract and refine it.
Crap. One more thing to make North Dakota less world renown.
Fire cannot melt steel, you know.
Show me one humble Christian church in Dubai, and I will be more awe-inspired.
That is one TAAAALLL building. I bet the BASE jumpers are going nuts with the waiting.
This tower is not built like the WTC which had a core and perimeter columns. I doubt a single plane would take it down as the stress from the loss of a few colums would be transferred to adjacent columns. A B-24 hit the Empire state building in the 40’s and just broke a few windows.
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