If you've not heard of him before, you're probably familiar with some of his past projects like the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, the Turning Torso, and The Chicago Spire. The design of the Dubai Creek Tower is a work of the Spanish-Swiss architect Santiago Calatrava Valls. Plus, the antenna situated on the peak is meant for broadcasting. About 20 floors will contain hotels, restaurants, and residences. The Dubai Creek Tower will primarily be a site for observation decks or sky gardens. Nevertheless, most public media and the Emaar Properties developer will probably refer to it as the tallest building globally despite having a form different from typical sightseeing towers. The CTBUH criteria are not accepted by everyone, which makes the issue controversial. Unfortunately for the Dubai Creek Tower, less than 30 percent of its height will feature habitable floors.

This is because the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) holds that a structure is only considered a building if at least 50% of its height is habitable. However, much dispute has arisen about whether the Dubai Creek Tower will be recognized as the world's tallest building.

If the Dubai Creek tower rises beyond 1300 meters, it will undoubtedly become the world's tallest building and manmade structure, even taller than the Jeddah Tower of Saudi Arabia, which is estimated to reach a height of 1008 meters.

The video also implies that 5 Dubai Creek Towers could equate to 8 times the Burj Khalifa, which would take us to about 1345 meters. With this information, we can estimate that the tower will reach a height of 1300 meters. On completion, the tower will add incredible economic value to Dubai Creek Harbour, a mixed-use development located near the Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary that is home to over 67 species of water birds and is protected by the Unesco Ramsar Convention.A video released in Dubai Mall in 2017 displayed that if the tower were stacked on itself eight times, it would reach around 11 kilometers. In all, about 50,000 cu m of concrete will be used to fully cap the foundation piles, stated the Wam report. The tower’s 145 barrette piles were tested to a world record load of 36,000 tonnes and laid 72 m deep to firmly secure the super-structure. In October 2016, Sheikh Mohammed marked the ground-breaking of the tower, with the foundation work accomplished in a record time. About 12,000 tonnes of steel reinforcement has also been placed, nearly twice the weight of the Eiffel Tower, said the report. To date, about 25,000 cu m of concrete has been poured, weighing about 60,000 tonnes or half the weight of the CN Tower in Canada. Over 50 per cent of the pile cap has now been finished with completion scheduled for mid-2018, stated the report.ĭubai Creek Tower’s pile cap is an approximately 20 metre thick multi-layered, tiered reinforced concrete top that covers and transfers the load to the foundation barrettes.ĭesigned by Spanish/Swiss architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava Valls, Dubai Creek Tower will feature several observation decks such as the Pinnacle Room and VIP Observation Garden Decks. With the placement of concrete for the pile cap commencing in September last year, the core of the pile cap has now reached its highest point. The visit of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed coincides with Emaar setting a new milestone in the construction of Dubai Creek Tower. He was accompanied by Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and chairman of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.Ĭhairman of Emaar Properties Mohamed Alabbar, Chairman of Dubai Holding Abdullah Al Habbai and other high-ranking government officials were also present. The progress of Dubai Creek Tower was today reviewed by Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, reported state news agency Wam. Work is in full swing at the Dubai Creek Tower, a global icon being developed by leading developer Emaar in the heart of the six-sq-km Dubai Creek Harbour, said a report.

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