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The Marina Torch

Dubai Marina, United Arab Emirates

The 87th tallest building in the world

352 m · 1,155 ft

The Marina Torch, also known as Dubai Torch, Dubai Torch Tower, and The Torch, is a residential skyscraper in Dubai Marina in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is 352 metres (1,155 ft) tall, with 86 floors above ground and 4 below, and was the tallest residential building in the world on its completion in 2011, surpassing Q1 in Gold Coast, Australia. The building was damaged by fire on 21 February 2015, as well as while it was undergoing restorative work on 4 August 2017, and again on 5 January 2019. As of 2026, it is the 14th-tallest building in Dubai and the eleventh-tallest residential building in the world.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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