Look up ahead-if you see a razor-thin glass skyscraper stretching far higher than anything else on the skyline, standing tall with sleek sides and dramatic, curved balconies stepping up its side, you’ve found the Pentominium.
Picture this: It’s 2008, Dubai is buzzing with big dreams, and here on this very spot, workers lay the first stones of what was meant to be the tallest residential building in the world-a whopping 122 stories, designed by Andrew Bromberg, reaching for the sky at 517 meters high! The energy was explosive, cranes were swinging, sunlight bouncing off new concrete, and everyone imagined fabulous penthouse parties with views that would make even clouds jealous. But by 2011, the rhythm ground to a halt-like someone knocked the music off at midnight. Only 22 floors were done before the Great Recession hit, Trident International ran out of cash, and those penthouses became the dreamiest ghost apartments in Dubai.
For over a decade, this half-built giant loomed as a strange monument-a “what if” in the city of ambition. Some whispered it was cursed; others just hoped for a happy ending. Well, surprise! In 2023, Select Group swooped in, dusted off the old plans, and turned the Pentominium’s rough skeleton into the shiny new Six Senses Residences. With a fresh design by Woods Bagot and cranes cranking back into action in 2024, it’s set to finally rise above Marina’s towers and claim its crown by 2028. Just imagine: if these walls could talk, they’d have stories of dreams paused, revived, and now soaring again-only in Dubai!
