I recently came across an article in the German economy magazine „Wirtschafts Woche“, discussing the incredible heights of skyscrapers. And the winner is…well, will be the “Burj Dubai” with 818,75 m (310 m higher than the current number 1 Teipei-Tower in Taiwan. 7000 Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi workers are building on the tower, which should be finished in the summer of 2009. With an investing volume of 1,8 Milliard US-$. Around a completely new district will be developed with 320000 luxury apartments, offices, parks and an artificial lake.
But this won’t be the record holder for long.Two buildings are competing for the label “highest building of the world”. The one is just a few kilometres away from “Burj Dubai”. Called “Al Burj”, this one is planned to be 1050m tall. The second one will be located in Kuwait, called “Burj Mubarak al-Kabir”, more than one kilometre high and should be completed in 2015. It is not possible to get more details about the building. The builders probably want to exceed “Al Burj” with a surprisingly long antenna in the very last moment to get the crown.