Dubai tower now world’s tallest free-standing structure
Jim Swanson September 14th, 2007 - 12:30 pmfrom AFP
Look at the size of that huge phallic symbol! Actually, it looks like a huge middle finger pointing directly at the United States! - JS
DUBAI (AFP) - 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 stories, 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.
September 14th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
And boy, is it ugly.
September 14th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
It is ugly….and I have to wonder how safe it is. Who built it? Slave labor, no doubt……
September 15th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Is not Halliburton in Dubai?
It is not BUSH/Cheney friends in Dubai?
It is the Sheik of Dubai friend of the Queen of England?
September 15th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
The middle finger is pointing to all the working people of the world.
THe rich and famous are flocking DUBAI with their swindles.
Donald Trumph is building islands in Dubai.
We the working class and poor of the world … yeah, yeah.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Money $$$$$$$$$ from high oil prices building too.
So is high oil prices, cheap slave labor= Cheney men.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Cheney, Calyle, Gates, Bush, KI$$$$$$$$$$$$inger men will have office suites, in that building.
Gucci, Prada, Armani, and all the rich and famous had their boutiques in that tower.
This is the ultra rich and famous pointing the middle finger at the whole world.
Meantime OIL is $80 a barrel and gold more that U$700 an ounze.
Yeah, yeah, Cheney in Dubai.
War accross Dubia.. is IRAN.
Yeah, nuclear, nuclear.
Thanks to the big money.