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Sky-high on hot, hot Dubai
Once settled at your hotel there is so much to do and see in and around Dubai, but first on your list should be a visit to the Burj Khalifa, located at the Dubai Mall. The building is an amazing 828m high. Completed at the beginning of last year, it surpassed the previous tallest building, the Taipei 101 in Taiwan, by 300m.
‘The lights went off and the car began to fall’: Tourist tells of horror lift ordeal 124 floors up the world’s tallest building
A group of terrified tourists have told how they were trapped in a lift for almost an hour 124 floors above the ground in the world’s tallest building. Visitors on the observation deck half-mile-high Burj Khalifa heard a loud boom, then saw dust that looked like smoke seeping through a crack in a lift door.
Athletes race up Empire State Building stairs
Hundreds of athletes from around the world have competed in the annual race to the top of the Empire State Building — running up 86 flights of stairs. There are a total of 1,576 steps and because the stairwells are only wide enough for two people there can be quite a bit of pushing and shoving. But if you think this looks tough, imagine what skyscrapper running would be like in Dubai, the Burj Khalifa building has almost twice as many floors.
Satellite photo of the world’s tallest building and “The World” islands in Dubai
NASA has released an updated satellite photo showing Dubai’s artificial islands and its newly completed Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building which stands more than 800 meters. The projects, which were much hyped during development, are seeming ill-conceived on the heels of Dubai’s real estate market crash and two bailouts by Abu Dhabi, Dubai’s oil-rich neighbor.
Castle in the Air
The Burj Khalifa, in Dubai—the new holder of the title of World’s Tallest Building—is no less extravagant a media gesture. Unlike Wright’s design, to which it bears a startling resemblance, this building is very real—all one hundred and sixty stories (or two thousand seven hundred and seventeen feet) of it.
World’s Tallest Building Grand Opening Timelapse
World’s Tallest Building Grand Opening Timelapse recorded with Canon EOS 500D and edited with Final Cut Pro. Burj Dubai or Burj Khalifa inauguration time lapse in Dubai United Arab Emirates
Kuwait, Qatar join tall building trend
The official opening of the 828-metre-high Burj Khalifa has not marked the end of the era of tall buildings. This is according to the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), which has released its list of projects anticipated to be completed in 2010.
How the Burj was built
Vision is a word you hear a lot in the GCC. But just imagine if you will, sitting down in a meeting and deciding to construct the world’s tallest building in your city. Not one that is going to be the tallest by a few dozen metres, and relinquish its title to another tower, in another city, within a few years, but the tallest by a massive margin.
New plans floated for proposed 160-story building in Miami
Plans call for a 3,200-foot-tall building that would eclipse the Burj Khalifa in Dubai as the world’s tallest. Miapolis would include an amusement park, a trade center, an observatory, a shopping mall, restaurants, condominiums, office space, a hotel and a marina.
Czech firm played key role in construction of world’s tallest building
The completion of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Dubai, made scores of international headlines this week. Among those who took part in the huge project in the United Arab Emirates was a Czech firm called Pega Hoist, whose high-speed construction elevators were used throughout the building stage.
