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May 13, 2004
Burj Dubai
Taipei 101 (460m), the Petronas Towers (452m) and the Sear's Tower (442m) will be overshadowed by the Shanghai World Financial Center (492m) upon its completion in 2007. Even that last will be dwarfed by the Burj Dubai, intended to be the world's tallest building at a projected 705m. That is considerably taller than the world's tallest freestanding structure (as opposed to occupied building), the CN Tower (553m).
On the short-list to do the job: the Binladen construction group. Of course, another strategy for getting the world's biggest phallic substitute would be for some other family member to keep knocking down everyone else's accomplishments until we are left with a 7th century hut.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 13, 2004 08:10 AM
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Frankly I'm relieved that they're now more interested in building tall towers, than taking them down.
Posted by: Chris Taylor at May 13, 2004 03:08 PM