Burj Dubai now the tallest building on the planet

[AndisArt 2,068]

There is actually a taller vision for India, called the Noida Tower. 

Not my favourite though...

And as it looks the Burj Dubai will not hold the title for world's tallest structure for long. 

Al Burj is in the pipeline and is currently believed to rise up to 1200 meters high. 

Then there is Madinat al Hareer, or the City of Silk, Kuweit City, with it's central tower of 1001 meters: 

[perozzo 0]

dam... Burj Dubai looks good in toronto.

[villagemayor 0]

Too much NIMBYism to be able to build a building that tall in Toronto or anywhere in NA.

[SimRabbit 48]

that thing up there (noida tower) looks like a freaky witch's hand

[LivingInThePast 364]

A building can't take tallest-building status until it's built. There was a concept for some 400 story tower in Houston. So does that make it the largest building in the world? No, it will never be built.

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

The Burj Dubai is not a concept, It is built. It's not completed, but it's currently the tallest building above Taipei 101.

[chapmanclam 3]

Race to the heavens all over again.

Amazing that the Burj Dubai is gonna have such a great difference in height from anything previously built.

I wonder how windy it'll be up there........but the view must be spectacular =PP

[Haljackey 17,380]

Well, to stay updated with the Burj Dubai's construction, try looking at Wikipedia's article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Dubai

It is constantly being updated, and anything edited that is not properly sourced is discarded quickly.  The webmasters at Wikipedia know that many people are looking @ the article so they check it often.

Heres a recent picture of the Burj from Aug. 9th.

The building's current height is 531.3 m (1,743 ft) as of AUGUST 12th, 2007.  Still not as tall as

the CN @ 553.33 meters!

[Aktof 2]

*Note

There will be 19 buildings around the Burj. They too are being built around the tower to expand the cities population and making dubai a great city. There are also many other large buildings already bieng built aswell or already built. The idea that the burj will look ugly in the middle of the desert is out of the question with such things and the other projects of the shiek such as the world islands. Check out google earth or google maps for a great view on these projects

[joeshmoe 1]

i think those buildings look awesome.

[villagemayor 0]

I guess the Burj Dubai will be a true arcology where people live shop and work in one building, never needing to set foot outside. Like in SC2000, imagine seeing the Burj Dubai and other arcos blast off into space (Yikes).

[villagemayor 0]

I was watching the CBC this morning, and had a discussion about the Burj Dubai and some of their comments about the CN Tower. CN Tower Officials will be congraduating the Burj Dubai on being the world's tallest building upon completion. Looks like CN Tower will finally be defeated. But CN Tower officials said it nicely and without envy, that tall buildings/towers of the past such as the Eiffel Tower, Empire State Tower, and the Sears Tower, continue to attract millions of tourists every year despite the fact that these buildings are not the tallest anymore.

[Haljackey 17,380]

Speaking of the CBC, there is now an article there about the world's tallest structures and how they came to be.

Here is a link to it,

http://www.cbc.ca/photogallery/world/655/

Its actually a very interesting and informative read.  I suggest looking through the pictures of the tallest structures if you just want to skim the article.

[Haljackey 17,380]

BUMP:

A new list of milestones has been added to wikipedia, including a new height released on Sept. 3rd.  Here is a list from the article.

Current height and timeline of events

As of September 3, 2007, the tower's developers reported the Burj Dubai's height to be 545.7 m (1,790 ft), with 148 completed stories.^[4]

Burj Dubai's next milestone is to be the tallest freestanding structure, surpassing the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada at 553.3 m (1,815 ft).^[5]

• September 21, 2004

  Emaar contractors begin construction on the Burj Dubai.

• February 2007

  Burj Dubai surpasses the Sears Tower as the building with the most floors.

• May 13, 2007

  Burj Dubai sets record for vertical concrete pumping on any building at 452 m (1,483 ft), surpassing the 449.2 m (1,474 ft) to which concrete was pumped during the construction of Taipei 101.^[6] The record for vertical concrete pumping on any structure was set during the construction of the Riva del Garda Hydroelectric Power Plant in 1994, when concrete was pumped to a height of 532 m (1,745 ft). ^[7]

• July 21, 2007

  Burj Dubai becomes the tallest building on Earth surpassing Taipei 101 which stands at a height of 509.2 m (1,671 ft).^[8] The previous day, the head of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), Antony Wood, had confirmed that it "surpassed the height of Taipei 101 structurally (concrete)." ^[9] However, he also added "We will not classify it as a building until it is complete, clad and at least partially open for business to avoid things like the Ryungyong [sic] project. Taipei 101 is thus officially the world's tallest until that happens."

• August 12, 2007

  Burj Dubai surpassed the height of the Sears' Tower antenna which stands at a height of 527.3 m (1,730 ft).

• September 03, 2007

  Burj Dubai becomes the second tallest freestanding structure on land, surpassing the Ostankino Tower in Moscow, Russia.

[JakeMD 107]

its awsome isn't it!?

[Wheezy 23]

Does anyone think we might be going a little too far? I mean, this thing is almost as tall as 3 of the World Trade Center towers stacked on top of each other.

Maybe I've watched too many disaster movies, but I'm uneasy about this.

PS: The Noida Tower is hideous. I hope someone on their design team has the aesthetic sense to object to that design.

[banks 0]

idk i really dont like the Burj Dubai and i was actley suprized to here that the wolrds tallst buldingb is being bulit in the middle east uslay china, canada, and americal uslay tend to make some of the worlds tallst buldings

[politicman 1]

Great news Wow it's impresive !!

[SimRabbit 48]

Wheezy: so we should build smaller towers then??

burj dubai is very impressive and beatiful.

[AndisArt 2,068]

Originally posted by: Wheezy Does anyone think we might be going a little too far? I mean, this thing is almost as tall as 3 of the World Trade Center towers stacked on top of each other.quote>

It's rather twice the size. WTC towers were 417 and 415 meters. Burj Dubai as of now will be 818 meters. The Al Burj is planned for much greater height though, that would fit 3 WTCs.

If technologie allows it, why not go so high. Personally I love the Star-Warsish scale of them, so futuristic. On the other hand I am wondering how they can put so much money into those projects when in just a few decades the whole area will be under water... In Dubai they play it very big but they havn't thought it out to the end I find. They should spend a great deal of their billions on pushing alternative energy technologies of all sort. Otherwise even the tallest builing in the world will not be able to withstand the effects of climate change. 

[bartonn 0]

That's why I'm against this building. Its to early. Resources should be invested in other areas to allow for a building of this magnitude to exist. Over history, we have seen that buildings have gotten bigger at a certain scale. This one seems to jump too far ahead of the rest, so it may not stand our current global enviroment. Basically, this building has been transported from the near future.

[kawan 6]

I don't see why people are against the Burj Dubai. At this point in time most major cities - London, New York, Chicago and many others - are redeveloping and going through a phase of building many new skyscrapers. Why not Dubai? They are also getting in on the skyscraper act and it's nice that the Middle East is part of it. Dubai is ambitious in their building plans - just look at their future projects on Wikipedia - it is like building a dream city. Anyway, the Burj would serve as a milestone for many more supertalls, like the Al Burj as mentioned above.

That's my opinion anyway.

[Haljackey 17,380]

Okay I concede. The Burj Dubai is now the tallest building on the planet. Today, it surpassed the CN Tower in Toronto, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Channel. However, the folks over at the CN Tower will not concede the title "World's Tallest" until the tower is completed and open for business. Only then will it officially become the world's tallest.

[kawan 6]

Originally posted by: haljackey Okay I concede. The Burj Dubai is now the tallest building on the planet. Today, it surpassed the CN Tower in Toronto, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Channel. However, the folks over at the CN Tower will not concede the title "World's Tallest" until the tower is completed and open for business. Only then will it officially become the world's tallest.quote>

 

Yes, as of September 12th it is now at least 555m. There are 2 more milestones for the Burj Dubai to surpass - the KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota (628m) and the now collapsed Warsaw Radio Mast (646m) to become the tallest structure ever built of any time.

[Haljackey 17,380]

Well, heres a clipout from the front page of todays newspaper ( I read the London Free Press)

I guess thats it.  Nothing can stop it now.

Oh and kawan, I think theres an oil platform somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico thats taller than the Warsaw Radio Mast.  Once it it taller than that, then it will be unopposed to the world's tallest building, freestanding structure, etc.

[Glenni 1,447]

Hal, the world's tallest oil platform is 400m or so, and it is in the North Sea, so i doubt something that tall exists.

http://statoil.no/STATOILCOM/SVG00990.NSF/Attachments/Troll/$FILE/Troll_illustrasjon.jpg

It's Norwegian, and is the biggest manmade structure ever moved, and the heighest platform,of course most of it is under water, but this is how it would have looked if placed next to the eifel tower.

[Haljackey 17,380]

Glenni: according to Wikipedia (which anyone can edit), the tallest oil platform is the Petronius Platform in the Gulf of Mexico @ 609.9 meters (2,001 feet) high, although only 75 meters of it is above sea level.

[JDRCRASH 53]

I think everybody can agree that the REAL prize is the "World's Tallest Structure in History".

Having said that, the Burj Dubai still has at LEAST 6 more months to go to bring down the record held by the Warsaw Radio Mast.

[torre mayor 0]

HAHAHAHAHAH anyway the best and safest buulding is the torre mayor at mexico city cuz it cant get destroyed by an earthqauke or by an airplane hahahahahahaha ( btw it is very small compared to Burj dubia lol)

[pagenotfound 53]

The Burj Dubai is now the 3rd tallest structure of any kind ever built including the CN tower

Its now 1922 feet high,