World's Latest Tallest Building Now Rising In Dubai

If you think that you might know where the world's tallest building is you may in fact know where it is for the time being but if you blink twice the name and the place changes these days it seems. There has been a building boom going on in the world over the last ten years or so and everywhere there is a new building going up that seems determined to become the world's tallest. This time around it is happening in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. it's called the Burj Tower and it has not even been completed but it already is tall enough to be the world's newest tallest structure. No one is sure yet how tall it will finally be, the people constructing the building are holding that fact close to their vests, but already it is measured at 694 meters. In other words the thing is already one half of a mile high. If you have ever seen it you know that it dwarfs all the other "skyscrapers" that are around it by far. It is so tall that from a distance it actually looks like it is the only building in the area. The other buildings around it tend to blend into insignificance to one's eye.
But things being the way they are these days no one is betting that the Burj Tower will hold on to it's new title for long. There are plans on the drawing board in jeddah, Saudi Arabia to build a tower that they are planning to call "The Mile High Tower." If it is possible to build a tower that high and the plans are ever executed it will dwarf even the Burj tower by plenty. They are planning to get going with it next year.