Chalk another record to the United Arab Emirates' collection。
The Capital Gate building in the desert kingdom's capital, Abu Dhabi, has been certified by Guinness World Records as the "World's Furthest Leaning Man-made Tower." How far does it lean? Nearly five times farther than the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy。
The 35-story, 160-meter-high Abu Dhabi building has an 18-degree slope. Unlike the tower in Pisa, the Capital Gate building has been deliberately engineered to slant。
"It is a signature building which speaks to the foresight of the emirate," said Sheikh Sultan Bin Tahnoon al Nahyan, the chairman of the building's owner, Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company。
The mixed-use building will be ready for occupancy at the end of the year。
In January, Dubai unveiled the world's tallest skyscraper: -the $1.5 billion, 160-story Burj Khalifa-, which has a height of more than 800 meters。