Dubai News

In 2017 Dubai started laying the foundations for Dubai Creek Tower, which, at a planned height of 928 metres, will become the world’s tallest tower when it opens to the public in 2020. Given that the Emirate is already home to the world’s current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, the desire to beat one’s own record could be considered curious. However, in the face of a competing project in Saudi Arabia, and rumoured projects in India and China, Dubai is not only working to pre-empt the snatching of its current, proudly held record, but continuing a strong history of developed nations trying to claim the biggest and the best – a history which has even resulted in an alleged fifteen design changes to the Empire State Building during its construction in the 1920s with the intention of stealing the title from the then tallest building in the world, the Chrysler Building. It has also lead to tricks such as increasing the height of antennas, resulting in the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat creating a myriad of different criteria by which to designate the height of a structure.