Dec 29, Dubai

There is no doubt that the Burj Dubai will be the world’s tallest. But how tall is known to only a few. “It’s still a secret,”  said William Baker of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, the tower’s structural engineer, in an interview ahead of the Burj Dubai’s January 4, 2010 opening. “The client (Emaar Properties PJSC) will only let us say it’s more than 800 meters (2,625 feet) tall,” he said...more