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Nakheel Tower, High-rise building in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Nakheel Tower was a cancelled 1,000-metre (3,281 ft) skyscraper planned in Dubai by developer Nakheel, earlier called Al Burj. Its final design combined four towers with individual cores forming a diameter of about 100 metres, joined by four-level sky bridges roughly every twenty-five floors. A crescent-shaped podium was to encircle the base.

Proposed in 2003 as "The Pinnacle", a 750 m, 120-floor apartment tower at the centre of Palm Jumeirah, the project was renamed Al Burj, then Tall Tower, then Nakheel Tower, and moved to a site near Jumeirah Lake Towers. Work was put on hold in January 2009 amid the Great Recession and the tower was cancelled in December 2009 after the Dubai World debt standstill.

The project carried three names over its life: Al Burj, then Tall Tower for a few months, then Nakheel Tower. Its design was to echo traditional Islamic buildings of Spain, Alexandria, Iran and Morocco, and the concrete structure was planned as the world's tallest of that material.

The tower was to be served by 156 lifts, fast enough to reach the observation deck from the ground floor in four minutes. Nothing was ever built, so there is no site to visit; the project survives only in renderings and press reports. The complex was planned beside the Ibn Battuta Mall development near Jumeirah Lake Towers.

The final design was not one shaft but four towers with separate cores inside a footprint about 100 metres across, tied together by four-level sky bridges roughly every 25 floors. Each bridge was meant to work as a village centre in the sky, and 156 lifts were planned to reach the observation deck in four minutes.

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Architectural style
high-tech architecture, postmodern architecture
Floors above the ground
228
Elevators
32
Height
1,400 m
GPS coordinates
25.05444,55.13139
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