"The Pentonium in Dubai will become the world's tallest residential tower" - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

I can't believe Dubai is still doing so many huge projects! - Amit Patel

Is land particularly scarce there? One of my elementary school friends is a partner at Fosters and was a main architect for the Index Tower -- one of the tallest buildings in Dubai. Must have some really interesting problems to solve! - Simon

It doesn't seem like land would be scarce but they seem to act like it. I suspect desirable land, which has a view of water instead of desert, might be scarce… - Amit Patel

"All public areas will be crystallized by Swarovski," huh. Pretty sure Dubai's skyscrapers are a prestige thing, not driven by economics. The city doesn't look like a dense packed downtown; it looks like medium-rise sprawl with the occasional mega-skyscraper poking out. The emirate of Dubai itself only has a land area around 1500 mi^2. - ⓞnor