He probably means square footage. And by the looks of it the Abraj-al-Bait in Mecca will be much larger.

I also think the Abraj-al-Bait will probably take the largest building in the world by square footage, but this may be second, if you can count it as one building. I am inclined to count it as one, both the top and bottoms are connected.

Wow!! Dubai impresses again!! I really like this.

Agreed. It looks like it would be really weird to live on any high floor where you can see a giant "roof" looming outside the window. Cool concept though.

I'm gonna plead Thumper on this one.

An update from yesterday

From the 18th of October from the developer's website:


Tower 1:

http://dubaipearl.com/sites/default/...1-jumpform.jpg

http://dubaipearl.com/sites/default/...-jumpform2.jpg


Tower 2:

http://dubaipearl.com/sites/default/...y/T-2-site.jpg


Tower 3:

http://dubaipearl.com/sites/default/...erproofing.jpg


Tower 4:

http://dubaipearl.com/sites/default/...ogress.....jpg

A little off-topic, but those Chrysler knock-off twins in the background are just offensive. Good to see this building moving forward. For some reason the footprint doesn't look as big as I thought it would, but I'm sure it's a much more imposing size in person.

Yeah, individually they don't look so big but the entire thing must be huge.

ps. you're right about those knock-off towers.

From the end of October

The last raft foundation has been poured.

Wow, in one of those photos I think I counted 10 concrete pumps.

I got 12. impressive

omfg. This is one of those projects I thought would end up dead 2 months after excavation began.... and now... we have 12 concrete pumps for just one of the four towers.

---- you Dubai for being so awesome at being awesome!

Reminds me of the CCTV building in China.

If this thing is actually 300m it will be the undisputed largest skyscraper on earth.

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As I said earlier I still think by the looks of it the Abraj-al-Bait in Mecca will be much larger.

Updates from Imre

Maybe, but this will be much better looking imo.

Amazing project!