Part 2: Half a mile/800metres is not enough

Vizier (or whatever modern title): The price of oil is rising faster than rabbits are breeding. Alhamdulilah. We are actually having more funds than we originally had.

Emir of Dubai: then make the Burj Dubai even higher.

Vizier: Impossible your grand emirness. We are already more than halfway to completion and we cannot modify the designs to go any higher than the planned 800m at this point.

Emir of Dubai: Then build me another one. A higher one.

Vizier: Insya-Allah, your wish is my command! (Poof!)*

* Disappears in a puff of smoke.
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Thus, Al Burj a.k.a. The Tower was conceived. Whilst the final design is yet to be solidified, the general idea is that Al Burj will actually be three towers very close to one another. and they will be connected by skybridges. The number of skybridges speculated remains from 4 to 10. No one knows yet. They always say that on top of every skybridge will be a garden.


Like all tall buildings competing for tallest building status today, the final height of the Al Burj remains a secret. Whatever leaks of info that get spilled seem to be inconsistent. Some say it was initially meant to be 700m, 100m less than the Burj Dubai, and it can still be an icon of national pride and that height wasn't everything. I guess whoever said that was fed by the emir to the sharks. Cause now there are those who say that it was initially meant to be a MILE high (1600m), but has been scaled back to 1200m. This seems to be consistent with another source that says no matter the final height, it will be at least 1km high. Though not yet solid fact, it is only a matter of time before it becomes one. Construction has not started at this writing.

Burj Dubai a.k.a. the Tower of Dubai is already yesterdays news, even before it is completed. Such is the pace of the world we live in today.

as you can see, the rate of growth of skyscraper sp. is exponential.