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Ibn Abi Ahmed
10-31-2006, 01:17 AM
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DUBAI (AFP) - Slated to become the world's tallest skyscraper and symbol of a city given to grandiose projects, "Burj Dubai," or Dubai Tower, is rising in parallel with the profits of its promoter, Emaar Properties.

With two stories added every week, Burj Dubai is taking shape as the centerpiece of a 20-billion-dollar venture featuring the construction of a new district, "Downtown Burj Dubai," that will house 30,000 apartments and the world's largest shopping mall.

Launched in early 2004, the construction of the tower by
South Korea's Samsung should be completed at the end of 2008 and cost one billion dollars, according to Greg Sang, the Emaar official in charge of Burj Dubai.

Burj Dubai already has 79 stories, taking its height to more than 200 meters (656 feet). But even after having gone that far, Emaar is still not revealing the tower's final height.

"At the moment, we are not answering. We'll say it (will be) more than 700 meters (2,296 feet) and more than 160 stories ... The people who need to know, know," Sang, a 40-year-old New Zealander, told AFP.

The world's tallest inhabited building is "Taipei 101" in Taiwan, which is 508 meters (1,666 feet) tall.

"At the moment, we've got around 2,500 workers on the tower site alone. We expect that to peak about a year from now at over 5,000 ... And for the whole site ... at any point in time, when the whole Downtown Burj Dubai district is under construction, there will be 20,000 men working here," Sang said.

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The Messenger of Allah :arabic5: said: "... when the shepherds of the black (camels) would exult themselves in buildings, this is one of the signs of (Doom)...."
(Muslim: Book 1 : Hadith 4)
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Sadia25
10-31-2006, 01:26 AM
it looks like a nice tower but i think right now the tallest towe is the one in Canada,Toronto that is the CN tower!!!
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Umar001
10-31-2006, 01:36 AM
For real, I mean don't the people who build this get scared that they might be fufilling prophecy?

Scary to me.
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Joe98
10-31-2006, 01:36 AM
format_quote Originally Posted by Ähmed
The Messenger of Allah said: "...when the shepherds of the black (camels) would exult themselves in buildings, this is one of the signs of (Doom)

Fascinating!

What are (the) other signs?
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10-31-2006, 03:10 AM
format_quote Originally Posted by Joe98
Fascinating!

What are (the) other signs?
Many of those signs are fulfilled by Muslims... like Petronas twin towers (but we are not shepherds of the Black (Camel)...
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