Burj Khalifa Burj Dubai Construction – Animation – UAE www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com www.burjdubai.com news.bbc.co.uk Dubai to build Worlds Tallest Tower – EMAAR Properties PJSC, the leading real-estate company in the region, announced on February 24, 2003 that it is to construct the worlds tallest tower and set … Dubai to build Worlds Tallest Tower – EMAAR Properties PJSC, the leading real-estate company in the region, announced on February 24, 2003 that it is to construct the worlds tallest tower and set yet another record for the fast growing Emirate of Dubai Burj Khalifa “Khalifa Tower” along known as Burj Dubai — Arabic for “Dubai Tower” —rises 2717 feet (828 meters) from the desert. The $1.5 billion “vertical city” Monday January 04th 2010, officially inaugurated the centerpiece of its decade-long construction boom, with the surprise revelation that the world-beating 168-story skyscraper – A new symbol of the city’s economic excess – was even bigger than previously thought. ” Six years in the making, and now 319 meters higher than previous skyscraping record-holder Taipei 101, Dubai’s newest edifice commands dizzying views of the ambitious building program that has transformed the emirate.