However, Dubai Creek Tower will not likely to be recognized as the World's Tallest Building, because according to The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), a structure is considered a building only if at least fifty percent of its height is habitable. The video below shows the height comparison of Dubai Creek Tower and other tallest proposed skyscrapers around the world. Comparison of Dubai Creek Tower (in the middle), Jeddah Tower, and Burj Khalifa If it will really be over 1300 meters tall, then it will become the tallest tower and tallest man-made structure in the world, as it can be sure that the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia is not likely going to be that high. And 1345 meters is nowhere near the maximum height a skyscraper can be built.
In the same time the video also implies that the height of 5 Dubai Creek Tower adding up is equivalent to that of 8 Burj Khalifa, this put the height of the tower to be 1345 meters.įor a tower supported by many cables anchored on anchors that spread on two sides, this height is not difficult to archive, people had built many supported towers that rise around 2000 ft in America in the last century.
In August 2017, a video played in Dubai Mall gives a hint of the height of the tower, according to the video, it can be approximately speculated that 8 Dubai Creek Tower stacked on each other will reach around 11 kilometers, hence the tower will be at least 1300 meters. The developer Emaar will not announce the exact height of Dubai Creek Tower until its official opening, in this way they can efficiently prevent its height from being surpassed by some potential competitive projects.Īfter Dubai Creek Tower was unveiled in February 2016, the son of the architect Santiago Calatrava said in an interview that the tower will be "a notch taller than Burj Khalifa", and several months later in June 2016, the Chairman of Emaar Properties told that the tower will be 100 meters taller than Burj Khalifa, which means it will be 928 meters tall, since then many news sites started to using the figure 928 to introduce the height of Dubai Creek Tower. The site of Dubai Creek Harbor is located at 8 kilometers east of Burj Khalifa. Dubai CreekĪ large project named Dubai Creek Harbor is being developed there, lots of new buildings will be built, Dubai Creek Harbor is planned to be a new district in Dubai, just like Dubai Marina, Business Bay and Downtown Dubai, but this district will be three times the size of Downtown Dubai, covering an area of 6 square kilometers (2.3 square miles), Dubai Creek Tower will be the centerpiece of this project. A giant model of the tower displayed in Dubai Mall is labeled with this new name.ĭubai Creek Tower will be built on a site in the vicinity of Dubai Creek, which is a waterfront area located near Ras Al Khor National Wildlife Sanctuary, Dubai Creek was the city's center of history and culture. Since the mid 2017 they started using the new name Dubai Creek Tower, as it is planned to be the centerpiece of Dubai Creek Harbor.
When this tower was first unveiled in February 2016, it came with no name, the developer called it The Tower at Dubai Creek Harbor or Iconic Tower, the name The Tower at Dubai Creek Harbor was also displayed on a foundation stone at the construction site. The name may be a provisional name, like Burj Khalifa had been named Burj Dubai before opening. Name: Dubai Creek Tower (In Arabic: برج خور دبي) Below are the facts about the tower, and some related information. Dubai Creek Tower is a hyper-tall tower under development in Dubai, the tower will become the World's Tallest Tower and Tallest Man-made Structure upon completion in a few years.
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