Burj Dubai – the supertall skyscraper
well, come completion this 2008, the Burj Dubai will be a suggested height of around 818 m (2,684 ft)…the projected final height of Burj Dubai is officially being kept a secret due to competition from other buildings under construction or proposed (hahaha gotta love these crazy people)…
latest update on this mega structure is that its currently sitting at 585.7m with 156 completed floors…you can say its really damn tall already but Burj Dubai’s last two milestones is to surpass the 628.8 m (2,063 ft) height of the KVLY-TV Mast in North Dakota, United States to become the world’s tallest structure, and to pass the Warsaw radio mast in Gąbin, Poland (646.4 m (2,121 ft) until it collapsed in 1991) to become the world’s tallest structure of any type ever built…
several other major projects in the region may vie for the title of “tallest structure”…these other projects are in various states of planning and/or construction…
one of Burj Dubai’s potential competitors is the proposed Murjan Tower, in Manama, Bahrain expected to be 1,022 m (3,353 ft) in height with 200 floors…
also potentially competing with Burj Dubai is the proposed 1,001 m (3,284 ft) Burj Mubarak al-Kabir to be erected in Kuwait as part of a massive development project called Madinat al-Hareer (City of Silk)which includes an Olympic stadium, residences, hotels, and retail facilities…however, the project may take 25 years to complete…
another proposed tower which may surpass the height of Burj Dubai is Al Burj (The Tower)…if built, it will form the centrepiece of Dubai Waterfront, the world’s largest waterfront development situated only 50 km from the Burj Dubai site…speculation has suggested various heights between 700 m (2,297 ft) and 1,200 m (3,937 ft), but the developer is keeping the final height tightly under wraps…
here’s a pic of the projected height of Burj Dubai, compared to the height of some other well known tall buildings…
The reason that i am posting this is because i kind of stumbled upon their website which you can visit here and they had this gallery section where you can view images of this Burj Dubai…there is this 1 image where it shows the elevator buttons and it was funny because you know if people go into the elevators, the buttons wouldn’t take much space of it right? maybe like 20-30cm across with 1m down correct? well, that pic i saw had the numbers up to 195 so most probably there will be buttons on every inch of the elevator LOL…imagine trying to find your floor number with the elevator full 
i can’t wait to see it fully completed…here’s a latest pic taken on December 17th, 2007…
There is a 2nd tower that is going to be built in Dubai called the Al-Burj that will be 1050 m in height passing the Burj-Dubai by about 200m.
Its going to be interesting to see the Dubai skyline in a few years with the tallest and 2nd tallest buildings in the world.