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Canton Tower


Height: 600m
Location: Guangzhou
Year: 2010
Canton Tower

Al Yaqoub Tower


Height: 328m
Location: Dubai
Year: 2013
Al Yaqoub Tower

Al Yaqoub Tower vs Canton Tower


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Al Yaqoub Tower

Al Yaqoub Tower

Height

328m
Floors72
Year2013
CityDubai

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The Al Yaqoub Tower is a 328 m (1,076 Feet ) tall skyscraper on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The tower topped out in 2010 and has been finished in 2013. It has 69 floors. The building is owned independently by Daro Saifuddin Yaquob, also serves as a 224-room hotel.



The construction design was inspired by Elizabeth Tower (more commonly called Big Ben) in London. But, no clock face is present on Al Yaqoub Tower. Additionally, it bears a resemblance to The Tower, a building situated directly north of it.

Source: Wikipedia
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Canton Tower

Canton Tower

Height

600m
Floors108
Year2010
CityGuangzhou

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The Canton Tower (Chinese: ???), officially Guangzhou TV Astronomical and Sightseeing Tower (Chinese: ???????????), is a 604-meter (1,982 feet )-tall multipurpose monitoring tower in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou (alternatively romanized as Canton). The tower was topped out in 2009 and it became operational on 29 September 2010 for the 2010 Asian Games. The tower briefly held the title of tallest tower in the world, replacing the CN Tower, before being surpassed by the Tokyo Skytree. It was the tallest structure in China prior to the topping out of the Shanghai Tower on 3 August 2013, and is now the second tallest tower and the fourth-tallest freestanding structure in the world.

Source: Wikipedia

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