Kilometer High Tower Planned in Dubai – “It won’t fall over” says CEO

Not content with their own world record for the highest tower, Dubai developers Nakheel on Sunday announced plans to build a tower which could stand one kilometer high (3,280 feet)

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulaim, president of Dubai World, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dubai government, said the project would be “one of a kind.”

A whole town is to be built covering 270 hectares (665 acres), forming a new Dubai and including “a tower which could reach one kilometer in height,” Sulaim was quoted as saying.

The Nakheel Harbour and Tower project has a target date of 2020 for completion at a cost of billions of dirhams.

The world’s tallest building, the yet to be completed Burj Dubai tower reached a height of 688 meters (2,257 feet) at the start of September and is still growing – according to developers it now boasts 160 storeys and is the highest skyscraper in the world.

The thinking is that this is just another step in the one-upmanship game – Bigger and taller than anything in Abu Dhabi. Dubai recently “borrowed” fifteen billion dollars from their sister state though, and we wonder just how far this game will go. And nothing is quite going to top Abu Dhabi’s purchase of Manchester City football club recently anyway. Manchester United? Perhaps…..

Chris O’Donnell, the Aussie CEO of Nakheel said, “At more than a kilometre high this is an unbelievably groundbreaking design. We are pushing the boundaries of sustainable design.”

I have long had issues when developers us the word “sustainable,” and I am now coming to the conclusion that the word appears to mean -

“It won’t fall over.”

Burj Dubai