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All Eyes on Burj Dubai
Take a paper and jot down what you think the height of the Burj Dubai will be. You will know if you were spot on tonight when the official height of this iconic tower is revealed.
- PUBLISHED: Mon 4 Jan 2010, 9:11 AM UPDATED: Mon 6 Apr 2015, 2:21 PM
Since 2004, floor by 160 floors, the Burj Dubai has grown to a gleaming icon, piercing the sky on Shaikh Zayed Road. It has shown Dubai dares to dream and dares to do.
'The guessing game on Burj Dubai's final height comes to an end today.
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One of the closely guarded secrets associated with the tower, the height of the world's tallest building, developed by Emaar Properties, has been much speculated with 'experts' from around the world making studied, informed and simulated projections.
From Day one, it was clear that Emaar was aiming for a tall building that was more than 800 metres high.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) says that Burj Dubai will fulfil all three criteria for tall buildings, which are ranked on the basis of 'Height to Architectural Top,' 'Height to Highest Occupied Floor' and 'Height to Tip.'
According to information compiled by CTBUH, Dubai's new icon is a way ahead the other impressive skyscrapers of the world.
Even at the estimates of over 800 metres high, Burj Dubai is way up than Taipei 101, Taiwan, which has held the title of the world's tallest building since 2004, ironically, the year Burj Dubai was announced.
Taipei 101 is 508 metres to its Architectural Top, the new criteria of CTBUH in measuring tall buildings.
Burj Dubai's highest occupied floor, in Level 160, is more than 100 metres higher than the current record holder – Shanghai World Financial Centre at 474 metres.
In the third CTBUH category, Height to Tip, Burj Dubai surpasses the record of Willis Tower in Chicago at 527 metres.
While the record for the world's tallest building is a given for Burj Dubai, the speculation on its height continues unabated.
SkycraperPage.com's forum, one of the world's most active skyscraper enthusiast communities online, has been buzzing with the 'final height' of Burj Dubai since years now.
Emaar some time back had announced a tower height enhancement, which threw speculator theories into disarray.
Today, the world will officially learn about the tower's final height bringing to its logical conclusion, one of the world's successful PR strategies – 'keep the world guessing'!