A new tower in the booming Gulf emirate of Dubai has become the tallest building in the world.Developers say Burj Dubai is 512.1 metres tall, surpassing Taiwan's Taipei 101, which is 508 metres tall.
Eemar Properties says Burj Dubai, or Dubai Tower, now has 141 storeys, more than any other building in the world.
Eemar says the skyscraper will be more than 700 metres tall and have more than 160 storeys, but its exact projected height is a secret.
The tower, scheduled for completion in 2008, is one of a string of grandiose projects taking shape in Dubai, which is part of the United Arab Emirates.
It will have cost $1.14 billion by the time it is completed.
Eemar says the tower "became the tallest building in the world in just 1,276 days," leaving behind other skyscrapers such as Malaysia's Petronas Towers, Chicago's Sears Tower and New York's Empire State Building,
It is the centrepiece of a $22.7 billion venture featuring the construction of a new district, Downtown Burj Dubai, that will house 30,000 apartments and the world's largest shopping mall.
The Burj Dubai will join other architectural feats in the city, including three palm tree-shaped man-made islands and "The World", a cluster of 300 islands looking like a blurred vision of the planet's nations being built off Dubai's coast.
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