The tallest building in the world

     Dubai boasts another wonder of the world: the tallest building ever built: 828 m. It's a giant skyscraper for $ 1.5 billion, which thus becomes the new symbol of the emirate.

     With 160 floors that have ingested the foundation of all, 330,000 cubic meters of concrete and 31,400 tons of steel, Burj Dubai rises between desert and sea, like a gigantic modern obelisk. Visible all around, from 95 miles away.

124-floor, visitors have the opportunity of unique views, above the clouds of bleak economic crisis in 2009, as the developers optimistic.

      Until the last moment, the owner, a company controlled largely by government secrecy about the exact height of the tower.

      Initial plans envisaged only slightly exceeded the highest of the existing buildings in the world - to Taipei and Chicago. Eventually, the right pharaonic ambitions of Burj Dubai sheikhs have made them outstrip almost 300 meters.

 

      This marvel of modern architecture employs over 1,100 apartments that occurred enough customers with all the recession. In addition, there are many offices, shops and restaurants, while the lower floors are occupied by a luxury hotel. At some point, probably next month, 12,000 people could live and work there.

     Some say that the Burj Dubai and could maintain supremacy decades, even if the emirate is building a skyscraper designed to be even better. Among those who have invested skill and talent there include a Roman architect Cristian Gavrilescu

Other interesting data

- Construction work began in January 2004, Burj Dubai is ready after 22 million hours of work;

- The top of the building can be seen in a clear day, from 95 miles away;
 
- The total amount of aluminum used to build the tower this user equates to manufacture five Airbus A380;

- Used for lifting concrete Burj Dubai could easily cover 2,065 kilometers of road, the amount used is the equivalent weight of 110,000 elephants;

- Water consumption is estimated at almost 1 million liters daily, while power consumption will amount, in peak periods, with 500,000 100 W bulbs lit simultaneously;

- Burj Dubai has 28,261 glass panels (installed by 300 specialists) and, according arabianbusiness.com, complete cleaning of the facade would take three to four months if it would run non-stop, in normal weather conditions.