Rare Photo: Mohammed and late Sheikh Rashid visit New York skyscraper

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, today tweeted a rare photo of his with his father Late Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum during their visit to New York in 1960s.

The black-and-white photo shows Sheikh Mohammed with late Sheikh Rashid visiting the Empire State buildingr during their tour of the commercial capital of the US along with other prominent UAE nationals.

"In 1960s, a dream started when my father and I ascended the world's tallest building - the Empire State in New York. We returned to Dubai fired with the dream that one day our city could be filled with such wonders as the world's tallest building. Now our dream is alive with the Burj Khalifa and the Dubai Holding/Emaar tower. New heights are in our road ahead,” His Highness Sheikh Mohammed tweeted.

Thanks to the vision of His Highness, now Dubai is home to the tallest tower in the world - the latest being ‘The Tower’, which is going to be even higher than Burj Khalifa. Already home to the world’s tallest tower Burj Khalifa, the new iconic tower will come up in the multi-billion-dollar Dubai Creek Harbour project.

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His Highness Sheikh Mohammed had approved the selection of the design by the Spanish-Swiss neo-futuristic architect Santiago Calatrava in February 2016.

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