Financial crisis or not, Dubai continues to enthral the world with the tallest this, and biggest that, probably gaining exclusivity on a lot of the world records, especially when it comes to buildings.

Today, 4 Jan 2010 it will take over the following list of world records because it is officially inaugurating Burj Dubai:

• Tallest skyscraper to top of spire: 688 m (2,257 ft) (previously Taipei 101 – 509.2 m (1,671 ft))
• Tallest skyscraper to top of roof: 688 m (2,257 ft) (previously Taipei 101 – 449.2 m (1,474 ft) )
• Tallest skyscraper to top of antenna: 688 m (2,257 ft) (previously the Willis Tower – 529 m (1,736 ft))
• Tallest structure ever built: 818 m (2,684 ft) (previously Warsaw radio mast – 646.38 m (2,121 ft))
• Tallest structure: 818 m (2,684 ft) (previously KVLY-TV mast – 628.8 m (2,063 ft))
• Tallest freestanding structure: 818 m (2,684 ft) (previously CN Tower – 553.3 m (1,815 ft))
• Building with most floors: 160 (previously both 1 & 2 World Trade Center – 110)
• World’s highest elevator installation
• Worlds fastest elevators at speed of 64 km/h (40 mph) or 18 m/s (59 ft/s)

[24] (previously Taipei 101 – 16.83 m/s)

• Highest vertical concrete pumping (for a building): 605 m (1,985 ft)

(previously Taipei 101 – 449.2 m (1,474 ft))

• Highest vertical concrete pumping (for any construction): 605 m (1,985 ft)
• The first world’s tallest structure in history to include residential space
• Highest outdoor observation deck in the world
• Elevator with the longest travel distance in the world
• Tallest service elevator in the world
• Worlds highest installation of an aluminium and glass façade, at a height of 512 metres

Congratulations Dubai. I look forward to getting to the observation deck and seeing Bahrain from that height!