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Burj Al Alam, Proposed skyscraper in Business Bay, Dubai.

Burj Al Alam is a planned skyscraper in Business Bay with 108 floors reaching 510 meters high, featuring a crystal flower shape with six structural petals. The tower combines office spaces, ground-level retail areas, and hotel rooms within a single integrated design.

Groundbreaking for the Fortune Group's tower took place on 12 November 2006, with completion then slated for 2009. Piling work on the foundations finished in 2009 before the project stalled amid the Great Recession, and it was officially cancelled by the end of 2013. In February 2025 Binghatti Skyrise resumed construction with a tentative 2028 completion, but work was suspended again in November 2025 and February 2026.

The name Burj Al Alam means "World Tower" in Arabic. The design was meant to resemble a crystal flower, and the crown was planned to hold a hammam, a sky garden and club facilities. The project's earlier 101-storey version for Dubai Marina was called Fortune 101.

The site sits in Business Bay at coordinates 25.18150, 55.27300, where the excavated foundation pit filled with water before being backfilled and levelled by May 2013. Nothing was built above ground, so there is no structure to visit; the plot remained with the Fortune Group as of 2025.

The crown was to hold a hammam, a sky garden and club facilities across six storeys, and the five-star hotel in the top 27 floors was planned to have the highest hotel rooms in the world. The site instead became a water-filled foundation pit, backfilled and levelled by May 2013.

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