Background:
This project, being developed by Emaar properties. It will be a city in a city that will accommodate over 150000 people. Construction goes on 24 hours a day.
All of these buildings - built on man-made islands called Palm Islands because of its shape - have been in construction since 2005 called The Burj Dubai. The islands are the largest artificial islands in the world & actually can be seen from space. In total, they are using 30,000 cranes.
The Burj Dubai is the world tallest building at over 800 meters (featured in this video), is the worlds tallest hotel. Considered the only 7 star hotel and the most luxurious hotel in the world. You can see the curvature of the Earth & apparently you can see the Earths rotation. It will be about 40% taller than the the current tallest building, the Taipei 101.
Recently, it was announced that the final height of this tower will be 1200 meters - completion in 2009. That would make it more than 30% taller than the Burj Dubai & 3 times as tall as the Empire State Building. It is built in 3 stages around a central column that will finish in a spiral.
[If there are any factual errors here in the description, then please notify me & they will be corrected]
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