Chumdinger » Dubai http://chumdinger.com Thoughts on technology, design, & culture. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:24:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Burj Dubai is Now the Worlds Tallest Structure http://chumdinger.com/2008/05/burj-dubai-is-now-the-worlds-tallest-structure/ http://chumdinger.com/2008/05/burj-dubai-is-now-the-worlds-tallest-structure/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 16:04:00 +0000 admin http://chumdinger.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/burj-dubai-is-now-the-worlds-tallest-structure/ A milestone was reached today. Construction of the 160+ story skyscraper in Dubai surpassed the height of the previous tallest man made structure, the Warsaw Radio Mast at 2120 feet tall. When finished, the Burj Dubai is expected to be a whopping 2680+ feet tall.

Lets put this into perspective. That’s over half a mile high! About the height of 3 Eiffel Towers. Or 2 Empire State buildings.

On one hand, I’m impressed with man’s ability to create an engineering marvel, but on the other hand, is this a modern day tower of babel?

Here’s the Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Dubai

And an image from Skyscraper.net:

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