Nakheel plans world’s tallest property in Dubai

Dubai's leading real estate developer Nakheel announced its intention to build the world's tallest property, at over a dizzying one kilometre high, joining the illustrious list of firms in the UAE wanting to achieve the same. Nakheel Harbour and Tower will be a 270 hectare development, extending between phase two of Ibn Battuta shopping mall and the 75-kilometre Arabian Canal.

Chris O'Donnell, Chief Executive of Nakheel said: "From our perspective, we're building a tower over one-kilometre high. It's the tallest by current comparisons." This new project is an added attraction to Nakheel's "earth-shattering projects", which in totality are of 1,000 kilometres of coastline to Dubai, O'Donnell said.

The humungous real estate property of Nakheel will be the main attraction of the area in Dubai. The property will have over 200 floors and will take an estimated 500,000 cubic metres of concrete to construct. Reinforcing bars used in the tower's construction could stretch from Dubai to New York, if laid end-to-end.