Beckhams Eye £ 5m Designer Pad In World’s Tallest Building

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Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 11:13

England football idol David Beckham is eyeing an Armani-designed apartment in the Burj Dubai tower. It is likely to set him back by five million pounds. Representatives of the owners of the tower have reportedly approached him.

Even though it is still under construction, the giant skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates has already reached 780 metres high, making it the tallest building in the world. By the time 33-year-old Becks is able to move in it is likely to have soared to around 820m. By comparison London's Canary Wharf tower, which is Britain's tallest skyscraper, is just 235m.

When the Burj is completed, designers from Italian fashion house Armani – for whom Becks advertises underwear – will kit out 144 apartments in the building. Each will be up to 200 square metres in size, twice the size of the average UK family home. Armani experts say they will fully furnish the luxury rooms having given the owners a choice of styles and colours.

The Nakheel Group is erecting the luxury Burj building. They also own the Palm resort in Dubai where Beckham already has a villa. Beckham is currently in Dubai on a tour with Italian giants AC Milan, who he is playing for while his US team, LA Galaxy, is in their off-season.

While his teammates are staying at the plush Park Hyatt Hotel, he and wife Victoria Beckham are in their luxury villa on the Palm Jumeirah complex with their three sons. David and his colleagues had a "bonding meal" in a reserved suite while Victoria and other AC Milan WAGs were in a restaurant at the hotel.