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WORLD / Middle East
Dubai tower now world's tallest free-standing structure
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-09-14 10:17
An aerial view of Burj Dubai, the world's tallest tower, in Dubai
September 7, 2007. [Reuters]
DUBAI -- The world's tallest building, still under construction in the
booming Gulf emirate of Dubai, has become the world's tallest
free-standing structure, its developers said on Thursday.
The Burj Dubai tower is now 555 metres (1,831.5 feet) tall and has
surpassed the 553-metre- (1,824.9-feet) CN Tower in Toronto, Canada,
which held the record for the world's tallest free-standing structure
since 1976, developers Emaar Properties said in a statement.
The skyscraper, being built by South Korea's Samsung and set for
completion at the end of next year, is one of several mega projects
taking shape in Dubai, which is part of the United Arab Emirates.
The statement did not reveal the tower's final projected height or its
final number of storeys, which Emaar has kept secret since launching the
project in January 2004.
The developer announced in July that Burj Dubai, Arabic for Dubai Tower,
had exceeded Taiwan's Taipei 101 which is 508 metres (1,676.4 feet) tall,
to become the tallest building in the world.
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