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I'm sure taller will be built elsewhere, I doubt the Burj Dubai will reign supreme for very long. at least the CN tower held the crown for 31 years, thats a feat all its own.
 
I find the Burj Dubai (in renderings at least) to be fairly attractive. I'm sure something taller will be built, but at over 2000 feet (and over 2600 feet with the antenna) it might be a little while. I don't think it'll be 30+ years though.
 
There are a few contenders in Dubai that seem ready to take the prize from the Burj.
 
well I guess that all depends if the Al Burj gets off the ground..at 1200m that would be a monster of a tower....
 
I was going with numbers from SSP but both projects height are being kept secret, so its anyones guess how tall these towers will be.
 
CN tower has been passed by Burj Dubai

CN Tower dethroned by Dubai building
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 | 7:40 PM ET
CBC News

The CN Tower's time has come. It is no longer the world's tallest building.

For years, Torontonians have known that their claim to fame's time was nigh as planned towers around the world threatened to break its 30-year-old record.

Finally on Wednesday, a structure under construction in the Arabian Desert succeeded in passing the Toronto tower's 553.33-metre height.

Burj Dubai — a glitzy hotel, residential and commercial building being built in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for a price tag of $4.1 billion US — will be more than 150 stories tall when it reaches its final height of 800 metres.

CN Tower officials said little about the record-breaking structure.

"When the time comes and the building is complete, we will congratulate the Burj Dubai project on their unique achievement," officials wrote in an e-mail.

On the streets of Toronto, residents mourned the end of an era.

"We had a lot of pride when we did it," said Paul Mitchell, a steelworker who secured the antenna atop the tower on its completion in 1976. "It was a lot of fun."

But he added that he was surprised the tower held its record for 30 years. "That was quite a feat."

In other cities across the country, though, people dismissed the blow to Toronto's ego with a laugh.

"I guess they'll have to get a big box of Kleenex and get used to it," one Winnipegger said.

Guinness World Records has recognized the CN Tower as the world's tallest free-standing structure and the world's tallest building.

The Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, however, disputes the latter claim. They argue a "building" must be designed for residential, business or manufacturing use, and say the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, were the world's previous tallest building.

Burj Dubai surpassed the Kuala Lumpur towers' height in late July.
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We knew it was going to happen, but there's something sad about it all.
 
Aw :( It's official. Unfortunately for Burj Dubai, it is nowhere near as awesome as the CN Tower.
 
Meh...global warming all but ensures the sands of Dubai will be swept away by rising oceans very soon, taking the Burj with them.
 
It doesn't really bother me. The CN Tower was built in another era and managed to hold the title for three decades...that, not the height, is what's really impressive to me.
 
On the streets of Toronto, residents mourned the end of an era.
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That's a bit of a stretch, I don't think most people are aware of this, nor would care if they were.
 
In other cities across the country, though, people dismissed the blow to Toronto's ego with a laugh.

"I guess they'll have to get a big box of Kleenex and get used to it," one Winnipegger said.
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Good to see all those prejudices being reinforced.

You gotta love the regionalism of this country.
 
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