Status Vision Antenna spire 2,400 m (7,874 ft) Floor count 400 | Type Mixed-use Roof 2,400 m (7,874 ft) | |
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Location Dubai, United Arab Emirates | ||
The Dubai City Tower, also known as the Dubai Vertical City, is a proposed megatall skyscraper announced in 2008. The building is supposed to be 2,400 metres (7,900 ft) tall. The building, created by an architect to display possibly future technologies, is the fourth tallest building ever fully envisioned after the Tokyo Tower of Babel (10,000 m), the X-Seed 4000 (4,000 m) and the Ultima Tower (3,218 m). If ever constructed, the Dubai City Tower will be much taller than any other current man-made structure, at almost three times the height of the Burj Khalifa. The Dubai City Tower would be almost seven times taller than the Empire State Building.
Map of Dubai City Tower - Dubai - United Arab Emirates
The design has 400 floors with a 200 km/h (120 mph) vertical bullet train acting as the main elevator. The design is inspired by the Eiffel Tower to better deal with the massive wind forces pushing on it. It has a central core with 6 outer buildings that are connected to the central core every 100 floors. This design both stabilizes the structure and spreads out its mass.
The Dubai City Tower is estimated to consume 37,000 MWh of electricity per year, with a 15 MW peak usage. The power would be mostly supplied by solar, thermal, and wind sources.