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Above left: Al Manara Tower (no height available, but about 175m/575f (including spire); 36 stories, 2004).
The tower is a residential one.
Above middle and right: Al Attar Business Tower (158m/518f, 38 stories, 1999).
Above left and middle: Saeed Tower 2 (155m/509f, 38 stories, 2001).
Above right: The Fairmont Dubai (153m/501f, 37 stories, 2002).
This hotel has 394 guest rooms and suites.
Above: Dusit Dubai, another great and distinctive Dubai skyscraper.
The building houses a hotel (153m/502f, 40 stories, 2001),
with 321 guest rooms and suites.
Above left: before the Emirates Towers and the Burj Al Arab were built and took over,
this was Dubai's most prestigious, and for many years, tallest building,
Dubai's World Trade Center Building (149m/489f, 39 stories, 1979).
Height of the building including spire is 184m/604f.
The building houses offices and a hotel.
Above right: Ghaya Residence (131m/430f, 34 stories, 1997).
Above left: two pictures of API World Tower (130m/427f, 32 stories, 1998).
Above right: Al Attar Tower (130m/427f, 32 stories, 1997).
Above left: Saeed Tower 1 (no height available, 34 stories).
Above middle left and middle: Oasis Tower (121m/397f, 32 stories, 1998).
Above right: Al Hawai Tower (no height available, 31 stories, 2000).
Above left: Khalid Al Attar Tower (116m/381f, 32 stories, 1998).
Next to it, Khalid Al Attar Tower 2 is under construction.
This building will be 260m/853f tall, with 61 stories.
Above middle left and middle: Towers Rotana Hotel (115m/377f, 37 stories, 2000).
Above right: Al Meraikhi Tower (no height available, 32 stories, 2000).
Above left: Sheikh Essa Tower (no height available, 31 stories, 2004).
Above middle: Al Moosa Tower 2 (no height available, 30 stories).
Above middle right: Al Salam Tower 1 (no height available, 30 stories, 1996).
Above right: Number One Tower Suites (no height available, 24 stories).
Above: a few skyline views towards the skyscrapers of Sheikh Zayed Road.
Above: three more skyline pictures.
The first picture was taken from Bur Dubai.
The second one from Deira (Al Maktoum Bridge).
Above left: another tall building under construction on Sheikh Zayed Road: Damas Tower.
This skyscraper will have 49 stories and will be completed in 2006. No height is yet available.
Above middle: view from Sheikh Zayed Road, towards the southeast,
where many new tall buildings will be built in the coming years.
At the moment only this cluster of six or seven skyscrapers is visible (still under construction),
but in 2008/2009, this area will have more skyscrapers than Sheikh Zayed Road has at the moment.
Including the world's tallest skyscraper.
Above right: a large billboard on the side of a residential building of Dubai's
tallest, and the world's tallest, in 2008: Burj Dubai.
For more - and current info - about this project visit the following website:
http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/index.html
Click here to go to another Dubai skyscraper page:
DEIRA AREA SHEIKH ZAYED ROAD AREA page 1 DUBAI MARINA AREA BURJ AL ARAB
Dubai's 10 tallest skyscrapers:
1. EMIRATES OFFICE TOWER 355m/1,163f, 54 stories, 2000
2. BURJ AL ARAB 321m/1,053f, 60 stories, 1999
3. EMIRATES HOTEL TOWER 309m/1,014f, 56 stories, 2000
4. 21st CENTURY TOWER 269m/883f, 55 stories, 2003
5. CHELSEA TOWER 250m/820f, 49 stories, 2005
6. THE TOWER 243m/796f, 54 stories, 2002
7. AL SEEF TOWER 215m/705f, 42 stories, 2005
8. GROSVENOR HOUSE 210m/690f, 48 stories, 2005
9. SHANGRI-LA HOTEL 196m/643f, 43 stories, 2003
10. MESK TOWER 185m/607f, 40 stories, 2003
The building data, the top 10 of tallest buildings and some of the building information are courtesy of
EMPORIS.COM, one of the world's leading architectural resources on tall buildings.
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