アラブ首長国連邦（ＵＡＥ）では、アメリカ・ニューヨークで建設中のフリーダムタワー（５４１ｍ）を、１６２ｍ上回る
超高層ビル（７０３ｍ）が建設中である。斬新なデザインのこの超高層ビルは、２００８年に完成予定である。
世界の超高層ビルは、７００ｍ級の時代に突入した。
| - | If this project is realized, it will become the world's tallest building. |
| - | The triple-lobed footprint of the building is based on an abstracted desert flower native to the region. |
| - | A subtle reference to the onion domes of Islamic architecture can be found in the building's silhouette when looking up at the lobes from near the base. |
| - | The tower will be situated on a man-made lake which is designed to wrap around the tower and to provide dramatic views of it. |
| - | Engineers working on the design considered installing triple-decker elevators, which would have been the first in the world. The realized building will use double-decker elevators. |
| - | The top of the building will contain a public observation deck and a private club above that. |
| - | Although the building's shape resembles the bundled tube concept of the Sears Tower, it is structurally very different and is technically not a tube structure. |
| - | The design by Skidmore Owings & Merrill replaces a plan to reuse the design for Grollo Tower, which was proposed in Melbourne a few years earlier. |
| - | Designed by Adrian D. Smith, FAIA, RIBA Design Partner at Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP. |
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| developer | EMAAR Properties | |||
| architect | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP | |||
| general contractor | The Turner Construction Corporation | |||
| interior designer | Hirsch Bedner Associates | |||
| elevator engineering | Lerch, Bates & Associates, Inc. | |||
| foundation company | Bauer Spezialtief GmbH | |||
| steel supplier | voestalpine Grobblech GmbH | |||