Architorture
Last Friday the 155th floor was completed on Burj Dubai. By yesterday the 156th floor was finished on a building that, at 585.7m (1,922ft) and still growing, is already the world’s tallest tower block.
By the time that Emaar, the largest property company in Dubai, completes the Burj (the Tower), it will rise to 164 floors, to be capped by a spire that will add a few more precious metres. The developers are said to be able to add on more floors if they wish at a later date to ensure that the Burj can see off any competition that might threaten its status as the world’s tallest building.
Such figures set pulses racing in Dubai, a city that resembles a cross between Vancouver and Manhattan, with a smack of the garish self-confidence that hitherto only Las Vegas could muster. Local master planners privately refer to developers’ love of skyscrapers as “architorture”.
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