This one appears to be a pure vanity project. The building is very narrow so commercial/residential space is limited if non-existent.
Looks like it just for observation. Like the Dallas Reunion tower.
Just another 697,000 feet to go before they become a hazard to astrogation by low Earth orbiting spacecraft.
This generations’ towers of babel.
There’s definitely a different sense to the skylines of Abu Dhabi and Dubai than to the many other major cities of the world I’ve visited. Most cities seem to say “this is who we are” and represent the people that live there. The UAE seems to say “hey, look at me!” Just my impressions.
In the United States, real estate must generate a profit. The Empire State building is profitable.
I think these are pure vanity projects. It’s too bad in a way that America isn’t the country with the tallest building, but our skyscrapers are for the most part built by private entrepreneurs (although IIRC the WTC was built by the Port Authority, I’m not sure of the financing setup).
America never built an SST even though Boeing had a perfectly good design ready to go. Not enough interest among the airlines. The Europeans built and flew an SST - which only the mega-rich could afford to use - and (again IIRC) it was not profitable, only flew with financial subsidies from the various governments. So it was a vanity project too. Although on that basis I guess you could say that the Apollo project was a vanity project.