Dubai tower is now 'world's tallest'

CNN.com ^ | 7/22/2007 | AP

[xrp]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Developers of a 1,680-foot (512 meters) skyscraper still under construction in oil-rich Dubai has claimed that it has become the world's tallest building, surpassing Taiwan's Taipei 101 which has dominated the global skyline at 1,667 feet (508 meters) since 2004.

[xrp]

I couldn't help but catch the dig at a free market economy in the last paragraph by the AP. The AP bother to mention if those 4,000 Indian laborers are being forced at gunpoint to work "with no set minimum wage".

Additionally, nice to see the Arabs building some tall buildings that we can knock down in the future.

[stm]

One well placed airliner............

[sonic109]

Guess that’s where my $3.00 a gallon for gas money is.

[TexasCajun]

[TexasCajun]

[1rudeboy]

Nope, but if you heat your home/water with natural gas, maybe.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Really sick. Dubai isn’t an enemy.

[reagan_fanatic]

You’re right. Let’s get Iran to build one.

[advertising guy]

I’m staying in that bldg upon completion.......

...an invite too...........woohoo

[Spirochete]

You haven't read this:

Ahmadinejad leads unprecedented anti-US rally in Dubai

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3399491,00.html

[Brilliant]

I suspect that al Qaeda does not like Dubai, and will aim next at that tower.

[Dysart]

“Hey, Taiwan/America/World, mine is bigger.”

[Thoro]

I suspect that al Qaeda does not like Dubai, and will aim next at that tower.

In a way, that's good news for us. By erecting their own high profile target maybe they'll take this self-nurtured terrorism seriously after its knocked down by one of their own.

[winner3000]

You’re right. I wish more arabs invested their money in building rather than destroying.

[mhx]

One well placed airliner............

One wonders how many airliner collisions this building was engineered to withstand.

[lowbridge]

The $1 billion skyscraper is in the heart of downtown Dubai, a 500-acre development area worth $20 billion. Construction, which began just 1,276 days ago, has been frenzied -- at times, one storey rises every three days.

They move faster than the New York bureaucracy which has slowed up a much smaller building:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Tower

[lowbridge]

They dont have to worry because fire cannot melt steel. At least thats what the Hollywood celeb experts tell me.

[Eye of Unk]

A monument indeed it will become when technology makes fossil fuels obsolete in the future.

[COBOL2Java]

They dont have to worry because fire cannot melt steel. At least thats what the Hollywood celeb experts tell me.

"There they go again, questioning my patriotism!"

[mhx]

They’re pretty efficient. We should have let them run our ports.