With more than 160 floors, the concrete, steel and glass building is officially the world’s tallest, having beaten the previous title holder, Taipei 101 in Taiwan, during construction in 2007.
As well as more than 1000 flats and 37 floors of office space, the tower includes a hotel designed by Giorgio Armani, the highest swimming pool in the world, on the 76th floor, and there are plans to open a mosque on the 158rd floor.
The developer of the building, Emaar Properties, claims that it has sold almost all of the residential flats in the building despite Dubai’s economic troubles. The first residents are due to move in February.
Property prices in Dubai have fallen by as much as 50% in the past year and at the end of 2009 the company behind one of the emirate’s biggest developer, the state-owned Dubai World, revealed it was struggling to honour its debts.
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