Burj Dubai is aiming to be 300 meters taller than Taipei 101, the world’s tallest building today. Thanks to the frantically fast construction speed, yesterday it officially overtook Taiwan’s skyscraper reaching 512.1 meters (1,680 feet).
It is now totalling 141 completed floors and still has a long way to go. However, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, like most standard bodies will not recognize or award its world-record height just yet - until it is completed.
The finished height of Burj Dubai is kept as a secret and will not be told until it is complete.
At the foot of the would-be tallest building in the world!
6 responses so far ↓
kailani // July 23, 2007 at 6:27 am
I can’t imagine being in a building so tall!
Dana // July 23, 2007 at 6:51 am
OK, that scares me just looking at it..but it is kinda cool. I saw that on the news earlier today (before I saw this post) and I thought about you…..really cool!
homestyleliving2 // July 23, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Wow! and to think that you are there to witness it all… When is it projected to finish?
Addie // July 23, 2007 at 3:43 pm
I am always facinated by these tall buildings although I DON’T REALLY see the sense in having them ha ha ha
movingmama // July 23, 2007 at 10:22 pm
My husband read this in the newspaper the other day and I thought of you over there! I’m pretty conservative on the height thing - so good for them, but there’s no way I’ll be making a trip up.
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