What if you spent billions building the second-tallest building on Earth and then woke up to find out you were third?
That’s the very real dilemma facing Dubai’s Burj Azizi, a 725-meter glass giant currently rising along Sheikh Zayed Road and gunning to become the second-tallest structure ever built. It would stand nearly 200 meters taller than One World Trade Center. It would be more than twice the height of The Shard. And it would be packed with record-breaking bragging rights from the world’s highest nightclub to the world’s highest hotel room.
But here’s the catch: 1,700 kilometers away in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a kilometer-tall tower is rising, adding a floor every three to four days, and it’s also targeting 2028.
In this video, The B1M breaks down the full story of the Burj Azizi — why Dubai is building it, how engineers are solving its extraordinary structural challenges (a building this slim, this tall, with no tuned mass damper), and what the opening of Sheikh Zayed Road to foreign freehold investment for the first time means for the city’s skyline. Oh, and the former life of this plot was the abandoned Entisar Tower, a half-built 570-meter skeleton that sat stalled for years before Azizi Developments took over.
The real question isn’t just whether this tower gets built. It’s whether it gets built first.
Watch the full breakdown here:
