Dubai City Tower
A 2.4-kilometre vertical city would have braided six towers around sky plazas and a train climbing far beyond Burj Khalifa.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Never Born
- Peak stage
- documented concept
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A visionary megatall tower concept circulated for Dubai during the late-2000s building boom.
Six structural strands, linked by bridges, would contain housing, offices and services across a vertical city.
Existence timeline
A six-part 2.4-kilometre tower is presented.
Sky plazas and high-speed transport organise the design.
Engineers treat it as a vision rather than a project.
Dubai's speculative pipeline contracts.
The tower remains without a build programme.
Tall-building databases retain the concept.
Why it ended
The speculative scheme never received a confirmed site, developer programme or construction approval.
Last confirmed trace
Design diagrams, a CTBUH record and contemporary UAE reporting preserve the proposal.
What it left behind
Dubai City Tower became an emblem of the theoretical upper edge of the emirate's skyscraper ambitions.
How we classified it
The proposed archive unit never reached ordinary public access in the form being documented.
The strongest verified milestone maps to documented_concept under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.