The World’s Tallest Skyscraper which can now be found in Dubai will open on Monday. Burj Dubai’s exact height was not revealed, but they say that the tower exceeds 800 meters, which makes it higher than Taiwan’s Taipei 101 tower with the height of 508 meters.

Bill Baker is the one who designed Burj Dubai.

"We thought that it would be slightly taller than the existing tallest tower of Taipei 101. (Emaar) kept on asking us to go higher but we didn’t know how high we could go," he said.

"We were able to tune the building like we tune a music instrument. As we went higher and higher and higher, we discovered that by doing that process… we were able to reach heights much higher than we ever thought we could.

"We learned quite a bit from Burj Dubai. I would think we could easily do a one kilometre (tower). We are optimistic about the ability to go even higher."

The Burj Dubai has 160-floors, containing 330,000 cubic metres (11.55 million cubic feet) of concrete and 31,400 tonnes of steel, can be seen from as far as 95 kilometres (59 miles) away.It contains 57 lifts, which will whisk people to 1,044 apartments and 49 floors of office space, as well as a hotel bearing the Giorgio Armani logo.

To reach the final stages, concrete was propelled to a height of 605 metres (1,996 feet) — a world record.

The construction of the Burj Dubai began in 2004 and is estimated to have cost one billion dollars (694.7 million euros).

The skyscraper is the centrepiece of a 20-billion-dollar new shopping district, Downtown Burj Dubai, which includes 30,000 apartments and the Dubai Mall, which says its space for 1,200 shops makes it the world’s largest indoor shopping centre.

Burj Dubai is believed to be the last of the giant projects that have brought global fame to Dubai.

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