Dubai’s latest mega project looks set to compete with Burj Khalifa. When completed, The Tower at Dubai Creek Harbour, will be 100 metres taller than Burj Khalifa, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, was on site to review its progress.
Sheikh Mohammed was accompanied on the tour by Mohamed Alabbar, chairman of Emaar Properties, Abdullah Al Habbai, chairman of Dubai Holding, and other senior officials.
The Tower will comprise of residential and leisure features including a 360-viewing deck 'The Pinnacle Room', and a VIP observation deck with landscaping meant to recreate the “splendour of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon”. It will also feature fully glazed rotating balconies that extend outward, rotating outside the skin of the tower, as well as a boutique hotel for visitors.
The Tower is centred off the Dubai Creek, not too far from the Ras Al Khor National Wildlife Sanctuary. It is expected to be completed for the Dubai Expo trade fair in 2020, the same year that the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, another contender for the title of the world's tallest building, is due to be finished.
In October 2016, Sheikh Mohammed marked the ground-breaking of the tower, with the foundation work accomplished in a record time. More than 145 barrette piles have been laid to depths of over 72 metres to secure the super-tall structure.
Watch: this video shows exactly what you can expect from Dubai’s latest mega project.